Local Arts

There are shows where your favourite characters might be brutally murdered at a wedding for no particular reason - and then there's Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove .

Dubai Fill the Sky CD release, Sept. 1, 8 p.m. at The Media Club, 695 Cambie St., Vancouver. Cover: $10.

Lights performs at the PNE Sept. 1 at 8:30 p.m. Concert is free with fair gate admission. Reserved seats start at $15. Visit pne.ca for info.

Dating & Sex: The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by David Borgenicht, Joshua Piven, Ben H. Winters, Chronicle Books, 416 pages, $26.

Salmon Row, runs until Sept. 1 at Britannia Heritage Shipyard. Visit mortalcoil.bc.ca for schedule and ticket information. The Canadian government put her father in an internment camp.

You’re Next. Directed and co-written by Adam Winguard. Starring Sharni Vinson. Rating: 6 (out of 10) Full confession: I didn’t really know what I was going to see when I signed up for the You’re Next screening.

Deep Cove Daze, Sunday Aug. 25, noon to 8 p.m. at Panorama Park. Featuring performances by LOMBOK, Old Man Canyon, JP Maurice and Dominique Fricot. Free admission.

Toronto band shows off their new sound on tour

The Fourth Stall, a book by Chris Rylander, reviewed by Simon Navarrete I really liked this book because while there are a lot of books about kids with magical powers, or zombies, or aliens, or the future, there aren't a lot of books about two friend

QUÉBEC CITY - The older my children get, the more discerning they become about holiday activities. My teenagers Ryan and Emma are not big on cycling, history or museums. And like most people they don't like rain much either.