Local Arts

- Secrets of Stylists, by Sasha Charnin Morrison (Chronicle Books, 176 pages) $27.95. Terry Peters [email protected] IN the fast-paced world of fashion there is "the look" and the people who create it.

Ensemble performing with Afghan trio at Chan Centre

She & Him A Very She & Him Christmas (Merge Records) No rating: M. Ward must think he died and went to celebrity heaven.

Smithsonian Folkways and the Aga Khan Music Initiative have released the following recordings so far in the ongoing Music of Central Asia series: Vol. 1: Tengir-Too: Mountain Music from Kyrgyzstan (2006) Vol.

- Anonymous. Directed by Roland Emmerich. Starring Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Rafe Spall and Sebastian Armesto. Rating: 6 (out of 10) His parents were illiterate, and, more notably, so were his twin children.

North Shore News: When did you meet Alim Qasimov? David Harrington: I think it was about 1995 or '96 in London. His singing just blew me away.

- Dead Inside: Do Not Enter: Notes from the Zombie Apocaplypse. A Lost Zombies Book Chronicle Books, 176 pages, $22.95. The Zombie Apocalypse has turned the world upside down.

VERNONIA, OREGON, WAS FRIENDLY FROM THE START. Outside the Bridge Street Mini Mart, a woman took an immediate fancy to my son's shoes. "Man, I love those shoes," she said at least three times.

- Shelby Lynne - Revelation Road (Everso Records) Rating: 8 (out of 10) Having gone through the corporate centres of Nashville and L.A. making music according to other's specifications, Shelby Lynne knows a thing or two about the business side.

Battlefield Band, part of the Cap Global Roots Series, Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 8 p.m. at the North Shore Credit Union Centre for the Performing Arts at Capilano University. Tickets: $30/$27, visit www.capilanou.ca/nscucentre.