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Kick Ass, the story of Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), an unskilled, unnoticed, but impossibly good-hearted comic book nerd who decides to right society’s wrongs while wearing a ski mask and a wet suit.

Photo by Kirsty Morris, FAR

I can count on one hand the number of people I know in Fernie who don’t mountain bike to some degree. I do have a bike though, and I am happy to say that events in August cater to absolutely every kind of biker regardless of age, style, ability or experience - even me!

It’s safe to say that all bands want an appreciative audience. Depending on the mood that they are delivering, they are looking for anything from polite applause in between songs to hoots and hollers throughout the show.

By the time this review is published, many of you will have heard Jerry Auld speak at the opening reception of the Fernie Writers’ Conference, and you will already know what I am about to tell you: Auld is a writer perfectly suited to our little mountain town, and his novel should be on the must-read list of every mountain-sport enthusiast.

While I’m out in Vancouver pursuing my dream, I feel so proud to be from Fernie and am grateful to have so many people reaching out and enjoying the music I have produced. The feedback and support from the community has been amazing, and through Internet networking I have been able to reach a wide base of fans much more easily than would have been previously possible.

Kaslo is truly the little fest that could. Nineteen years strong, the three-day schedule offers a class and style of music you don’t often get to enjoy all in one place, never mind that place being one of the most stunning locations in the world.

Photo by Jamie Hide
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Fulani Boys "This was taken in 1998, while I was working as a high school teacher in Nigeria. I was in a motor park, trying to arrange an intercity taxi on an Eid festival weekend."

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I could write a whole book chronicling my cognitive and emotional responses to Nicola Keegan’s Swimming. Don’t worry, though. I won’t. I will tell you, however, that I came to this novel with great trepidation.

Mud-spattered grins are descending from the woods in full force these days. Shorts and sunshine. It’s the I-came-for-the-skiing-and-stayed-for-the-summer season. And there are plenty of men out on the trails, but there is some very serious representation by the women. “She’s got legs, and she knows how to use them.”

For me, photography is something that has just kind of happened. Sure, I used to flip through old National Geographic magazines and think how cool it would be to take the photos I saw, or wonder how I could get into Powder Magazine, but that was because I wanted to be a professional skier; I never really thought of being a professional photographer.

When the Grand Central decided to offer itself up as a rehearsal space to local bands, the decision happened pretty organically. Anybody who has lived here for longer than a month knows that space of any kind is a premium. It’s hard to find a place to live, let alone one that will allow you to make a ton of noise on a drum kit. There are a couple of longstanding local bands like Big Bubba Tres and the Runs who have secure rehearsal digs, but where do some of the newer bands get together to hone their skills?