Local Arts

The Burnaby Lyric Opera is continuing its Sunday Afternoon Concert Series on April 21 with highlights from Giuseppe Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco (Joan of Arc).

Burnaby kitchen store goes above and beyond to help customers

Fighting hunger, one mouth-watering meal at a time. That's what Burnaby's top chefs will be doing on April 18 when they get together at the Hilton Vancouver-Metrotown Hotel to serve up some of their best culinary creations for the Empty Bowls event.

'If you took a bit of Tom Waits and Radiohead and then some sort of Shirley Bassey ...'

The excitement of Easter is over but there is still plenty to do in Burnaby, from learning about Buddhism to dancing the night away. We're continuing with our popular feature - our staff's Top 5 (Or More) Things To Do This Weekend.

The countdown is on for the 14th annual Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival, with just under four months to go till the gates open. This year's festival is set for Saturday, Aug. 10 from 1 to 10 p.m. at Deer Lake Park.

TUESDAY, APRIL 2 Jazz for a Knight, presented by St. Thomas More Collegiate high school - a jazz benefit concert in honour of STM student Jomar Manrique at 7: 30 p.m. at Michael J. Fox Theatre, 7373 Macpherson Ave.

Ishwar L. Maisuria leads a double life. By day, the Burnaby resident is a hairdresser at Harmony Hairworks on Sixth Street, and at night, he brings films to life. But these two creative careers are far from being in conflict with each other.

UNTIL SATURDAY, MARCH 30 Ghost River Theatre presents One, an adaptation of the Orpheus myth, at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, 6450 Deer Lake Ave., March 27 to 30 at 8 p.m. Tickets $37 for adults, $27 for seniors and students.

A new business in Burnaby Heights has been broken into within two weeks of opening. The owners of Chez Christophe Chocolaterie Patisserie, which opened on March 12, came to the store this morning to find they had been broken into overnight.