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► Get into Arts Fest
   Arts Fest 2000 is accepting entries. This is a six-week exhibit at the PG Art Gallery and Art Space, also a chance for selection to the B.C. Festival of the Arts. To enter this Central Interior Regional Arts Council event, please call 562-0024 or visit the C1RAC office at Studio 2880. Entry deadline is February 17, 2000.
► Ugly at the Generator
   Tonight local band The Many Faces of Sleeping Ugly are the showcase act at The Generator. This regular live feature is an opportunity to see some of the best local talent on the best rock stage in the region. The Many Faces of Sleeping Ugly have been a long-standing group with plenty of songwriting depth, so they look forward to entertaining a good crowd with their original music.
► Fiddlin’ around
   B.C. Old Time Fiddlers hold a dance on February 19 at Pineview Hall starting at 9 p.m. Tickets $8 (includes refreshments) at the Pineview Store. Call 963-7576 for further info.
► Bluegrass jamboree
   The Third Annual Cluculz Lake Bluegrass & Country Jamboree is coming up March 4 and 5 at the Cluculz Lake Community Hall. Host band is the Lakeside Ramblers. Special guests include B.X Express, High Strung, Highway 16, The Renes, old time fiddlers, and special feature Spring Rain. Pot luck dinner Saturday, pancake breakfast Sunday. Entertainment starts at noon on March 4, 10 a.m. March 5. Tickets ($10/day, $15/weekend) available at the site.
► 0 Lucky, cinema fans
   Cinema CNC screens the black comedy “O Lucky Man!” starring Malcolm McDowell 'on February 19 in Lecture Hall 1-306 at 8 p.m. Tickets $5 regular, $4 students/seniors (season passes also available).
and make music that satisfies us. I mean, it’s not that crazy it’s just not your average record. So now everybody’s happy The record company can sleep at night,” says Jeremy Taggart, the drummer of the group.
   “This record is starting to make sense to people. I think that’s awesome. This record isn’t your average toe-tap-per, in terms of sit down and listen to it and you’ll get it right away. We worked really hartLat making it interesting on the third or fourth listen. I think it’s got some really deep hooks once it’s got you. I think it took people four or five months just to live with it, decide if they want to get it, but now people are into it and it’s just like old times.”
   Old times are the domain of senior citizens. OLP looked to their elders for guidance on this record. Their producer is once again Arnold Lanni, one of Canada’s most respected studio mas-
ters. He is also the brains behind successful Canadian groups Sheriff (remember that sappy mega-hit “When I’m With You”?) and Frozen Ghost. By now OLP considers him to b& the fifth member of the band.
   Even more elder than Arn, though, is Elvin Jones. Breathe, jazz cats, breathe, you’re hyperventilating. Yes, the giant of the jazz skins, John Coltrane’s favoured drummer Elvin Jones made his rock ‘n’ roll debut on Happiness Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch. Jeremy was ecstatic to welcome the 73-year-old legend to his rhythm section.
   "I never thought I’d be able to call this guy my friend,” he says, still in awe. “I was a huge fan growing up. My father was a jazz drummer, so I had the influence of Elvin Jones, one of the greatest jazz drummers ever, playing around the house a lot.
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    □ Story Frank Peebles □
                                           As people slowly get the latest Our Lady Peace album, the record company execs can sleep
Happiness is not a fish that you can catch. Think about it. Think about it again. It isn’t just an oddity meant to catch attention. There’s some relevant acumen there, swimming just below the surface. Our Lady Peace’s latest album is swimming parallel. For a mainstream hit record, it isn’t exactly... mainstream. Lead singer Raine Maida uses falsetto tones not frequent on today’s radio waves, and his lyrics aren’t precisely accessible. The melody doesn’t conform to easy cycles and the rhythm isn’t tribal dumb-dumb. It is complex, yet it is showing signs of big success like their last two albums.
   “The easy way out would be to make 11 ‘Superman’s Dead’ songs, and they would fly off the shelves just like last time, but we wanted to add to the body of work that we’ve been making, and try