Local Arts

Kathy Daniels wins Best Actress award for fourth year in a row

- Beach House - Bloom (Sub Pop Records) Rating: 9 (out of 10) Baltimore duo Beach House (Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand) have produced a perfect summer record with their fourth studio release Bloom.

Juno Award winner ready for next phase

- GONG! The Gamelan Festival, SFU Woodward's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre May 18-20. Gamelan Gita Asmara, May 18 - 19, 8 p.m. Contemporary Music for Javanese and Sundanese Gamelan May 20, 8 p.m.

New CD release schedule for Tuesday, May 15

- Irène Jacob and Francis Jacob - Je sais nager (Sunnyside Records) Rating: 6 (out of 10) Following in the grand tradition of Claudine Longet, Carla Bruni, Emmanuelle Seigner and other French celebrities who think they can sing, actress Irène Jacob (

The West Coast Book Prize Society announced the names of the winners of the 28th annual BC Book Prizes on May 12: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize: Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (Thomas Allen Publishers) Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize Chuck Davis, The

Former head found it hard to make changes

EMPIRE ESPLANADE 6 200 West Esplanade, North Vancouver 604-983-2762 The Pirates! Band of Misfits 3D (G) -Fri, Mon-Thur 7: 15; Sat-Sun 12: 45, 4: 10, 7: 15 p.m.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Directed by John Madden. Starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Penelope Winton. Rating: 7 (out of 10) In Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama, villagers have a practical way of dealing with old age.