The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

people file North Shore residents in the arts North Shore resident Nicola Cavendish, who has an endless number of film, television and theatre credits, has recently been inducted to the B . C . Entertainment Hall of Fame and Starwalk at the Orpheum Theatre. Cavendish is well known for her outstanding stage performances in such roles as the title name in Shirley Valentine, Claire Zachanassian in the Arts C l u b production o f The Visit and Collette in the recent hit Four Dogs & A Bone. In mid-May, Cavendish and the other 11 inductees were honoured outside the Orpheum Theatre in a public unveiling o f the new stars which were laid into the sidewalk along Granville Street.. Cavendish wrote in a recent Vancouver Sun article. " I ' m in the business of make-believe. A n d I take my business very seriously." Nobody in Vancouver doubts that. Susan Astley and Steve Fetch, both of West Vancouver, are taking another stab at sex ... More Sex Tips. Ten years after the huge success o f Sex Tips For Modern G i r l s -- w h i c h ran at the Arts C l u b Theatre for 3 1/2 years--Arts C l u b Artistic Director, B i l l M i l l e r d , has persuaded Susan Astley to mount a sequel to the hit comedy. Astley agreed to direct and brought in Steve Petch to be the playwright ("boil down the few hundred pages of collective material and make it make sense"). Astley said after ten years. "We found it very difficult to make it (the play) funny. The original Sex Tips was p r e - A I D S . It obviously has a very different feel to this show." "The focus of this show is about the same characters ten years later and how their lives have changed, how they have changed. They've survived having children and teenagers and they're ready for the next step," said Petch. Astley, who won a Jessie for Outstanding Production for the first Sex Tips, is not saying whether or not she thinks this recent production has a shot for another award. [Sex Tips is running at the Arts C l u b Review Cabaret Theatre until June 10. C a l l 687-1644 for details.] Astley, a founding member of Tamahnous Theatre in 1971 and View, The Performing Arts Society, which held its 7th Annual Women In View Festival this January, is currently working in film and T V , most recently on episodes of The Marshall, X Files and University Hospital. Petch has written 16 plays over the last 20 years and says Sex Tips was his first experience i n working on a collective. His radio series The Black Persian and The Arabian Nights ran for five seasons on C B C . Petch is working on a radio series called the Golden Ass which w i l l air on the C B C this October. He's also working adaptation of Arabian for Tarragon Theatre. Barbara Fraser of West Vancouver, nationally known for her fabric art. has been invited to have a solo exhibition in the city of Saint John New Brunswick Art Gallery. Her show of 21 pieces w i l l run from June 4 to July 4, 1995. Fraser also had two quilts juried into the annual Canadian Quilters' Association show, to be held in the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery M a y 25 - July 2nd. Another of Fraser's wall quilts w i l l be hung in the Canadian Contemporary Quilt Show, St. Catherines. Ontario, September 10 to October 29. Fraser says her quilts for the wall are not traditional, nor political, rather they are artistic, humorous and colourful. Shown here is a wall quilt (94" X 64") called Dreaming Together which won the Viewers' Choice Award at Quilt Canada. Wendy Noel, a North Vancouver native (Handsworth alumni) and winner of three Jessie Awards, has recently been performing in the Arts Club production of All Fall Down as the lead character. Emma. Noel w i l l be spending part of this summer at the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts. She and her husband, along with their twin sons, w i l l be guests of the centre for the Playwrights Colony. Noel, her husband and other Canadian actors w i l l workshop scenes from writers' works in progress. Noel describes it as being "like an oasis for writers." Enjoy the mirage and the summer.