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Cape Breton indie folk band Villages (Matt Ellis, Travis Ellis, Jon Pearo, and Archie Rankin) have just released a new record and will be performing at The Garnet in downtown Peterborough on Wednesday, March 27th with country and western musician Nathan Truax. (Publicity photo)

nightlifeNOW – March 21 to 27

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Live music listings at pubs and clubs in Peterborough and The Kawarthas for the week of Thursday, March 21 to Wednesday, March 27.
A humpback whale feeding off the coast of Cape Town in a scene from "Our Planet", a new Netflix docuseries narrated by Sir David Attenborough. Filmed in 4K in more than 50 countries, it premieres on Netflix Canada on April 5, 2019. (Photo: Netflix)

What’s new on Netflix Canada in April 2019

The Peterborough Symphony Orchestra presents "Oh, to be in England!" at Showplace Performance Centre on April 6, 2019, with works by Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams. British-Canadian violinist and PSO concertmaster Phoebe Tsang will feature as soloist in Vaughan Williams' poignant 'The Lark Ascending'. (Photo: Sullivan Hismans)

Peterborough Symphony Orchestra returns to Showplace on April 6 with ‘Oh,...

0ne of the most nominated and award-winning female vocalists in Canadian country music history, Lisa Brokop will be performing her Legendary Ladies of Country show on April 1, 2019 at Showplace Performance Centre in downtown Peterborough, joined by Canadian country music artists Patricia Conroy and Amanda Wilkinson. (Photo: Erick Anderson)

Country music star Lisa Brokop brings her Legendary Ladies of Country...

Dani McDonald as Salli Bowles, Conner Clarkin as the Emcee, and Daze Francis as Cliff Bradshaw in a promotional photo for the Anne Shirley Theatre Company production of the classic musical "Cabaret", which runs from March 15 to 23, 2019 at the Market Hall Performing Arts Centre. (Photo: Ash Naylor Photography)

‘Cabaret’ transforms Peterborough’s Market Hall into 1931 Berlin

There's no shortage of live music to celebrate St. Patrick's Day on Sunday, March 17th, including Peterborough's own modern Celtic quartet Hunt The Hare (Kane Miller, Jonathan Berlingeri, Frank Callaghan, and Brendan Quigley), who are performing a free show at the Canoe & Paddle in Lakefield on Sunday night. (Publicity photo)

nightlifeNOW – March 14 to 20

Business & Technology

The semi-finalist showcase for the 2018 Bears' Lair Entrepreneurial Competition at The Venue in downtown Peterborough. This year's showcase, where 24 semi-finalists will be displaying information about their businesses and how they operate, takes place on March 26, 2019. Six finalists for the final pitch event on April 30th will be announced at the end of the showcase event. (Photo: Bears' Lair)

businessNOW – March 25, 2019

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Featuring Bears' Lair, H2O Makerspace, Rustically Signed, Peterborough DBIA and GreenUP, Peterborough Symphony Orchestra, and more.
Rebecca and Hannah are ready to serve you at '76 Sips, the new beverage bar at the Lansdowne Street location of Joanne's Place Health Foods. The beverage bar opened on March 18, 2019. (Photo: Joanne's Place)

businessNOW – March 18, 2019

Members of the organizing committee (Sofie Andreou, Amy Simpson, Tracey Ormond) for the 2019 Women In Business and Judy Heffernan Awards announced the 44 nominees on Facebook Live on March 16, 2019. Andreou, Simpson, and Ormond will be the hosts for the awards ceremony on April 9, 2019.

Nominees for 2019 Women In Business and Judy Heffernan Awards announced...

It's not just a party trick: two whole grapes, when touching and heated in a microwave, create a lightning-like fireball of plasma, a hot gas of ions and electrons. Trent University physicist Aaron Slepkov, along with Pablo Bianuccib of Concordia University and Hamza Khattak of Trent University, published a study in February 2019 explaining exactly what is happening and why. The research went viral with coverage from international media. (Photo: Hamza K. Khattak, Trent University / PNAS)

Grape Balls of Fire! Trent University physicist’s research goes viral

Olympus Burger in Port Hope was selected as having the ninth best burger in Canada on a list of the top 50 burgers assembled by Big 7 Travel. (Photo: Olympus Burger)

businessNOW – March 11, 2019

Jonathan MacKay of Sustain Eco Store accepts the grand prize, which includes a free year's lease of a storefront in downtown Peterborough, at the Win This Space 2019 entrepreneurial competition finale at Aria on March 5, 2019. Jonathan and his wife Celine (not pictured) already own and operate an eco-lifestyle retail store in Huntsville, which they will expand to a second location in downtown Peterborough this spring. (Supplied photo)

Huntsville eco-lifestyle retailer Sustain is Win This Space grand prize winner

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