As the winter continues to drag on, this week’s thaw was a much-needed reprieve. Snow banks have been growing higher and higher and the warmth of spring still feels like it’s never going to arrive.
This is the time of year when gardeners become anxious, waiting patiently for the snow to melt, the earth to warm, and the first seeds to go into the ground.
What do a famous photographer, a lawyer and author, a writer and playwright, a CBC radio personality, an athlete, and a coach and former Olympian all have in common?
We take it for granted: the simple ordered processes of our everyday lives. Getting ourselves dressed in the morning. Putting together a meal. Even something as passive as enjoying a TV program, a movie, or a book.
As simple as these things may seem, they can become all but impossible for any of the almost 6 million North Americans who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia.
This winter has been one of many apple pies, apple crisps, and a variety of other apple-themed dishes at my house, as I’ve been slowly working through the many bags of frozen apples I put away last fall.
It all began in mid-spring last year, with the apple tree on the front lawn being loaded with blossoms and buzzing with bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.
That was a sure sign that something great was in store for the months ahead.
There are some very high-calibre acts playing in Peterborough and area this February and March. Here are some excellent shows in February — and a sneak peak into some upcoming shows for March.
Get out and hear some music — it’ll take away some of those late winter blues.
Rick Fines is a talented local musician with a heart of gold for the city he calls home.
His earliest influence towards music were his brothers Mathew and Grant, who were six and seven years older than him. They gave him early lessons in guitar and his first tastes of recorded music — mainly vinyl records.
Mathew Fines went on to play professionally with artists like Michelle Wright and The Lost Followers. Rick acknowledges that his brother’s experience made him feel it was possible to have a life in music. The rest is history.
Rick is an acclaimed blues player, singer and songwriter, and his craft continues to evolve.
His musical resume is chalked full of shows, workshops, collaborations and awards. And when he travels (which he often does), he does so as a proud Peterboroughian.
When we think about industries in the Kawarthas, agriculture should be one of the first that comes to mind. Farming is big in this region, and one of the main industries that keep our local economy going strong. Our farmers not only provide jobs, but also supply us with local foods.
Ian Armstrong is sitting on a bench, writing in his note book. It’s one of those rare autumn days when the sun is hot and the air humid. The massive pines that shroud the entrance to Lakefield College School, where Ian is the Athletic Director, are completely still.
Maintaining a consistent career trajectory in the withering Hollywood spotlight is no mean feat, and is unfortunately seemingly easier for men.
Matthew McConaughey has drifted along amicably in the wilds of the foreign press as little more than a stoner adonis, a grinning torso for Versace spouting the likeable dreck we remember him so fondly for in Dazed and Confused.
But in the last two years, he has made some of the most interesting choices of anyone in his medium and made the transition from movie star to actor. From portraying a beefcake catcher’s mitt that revelled in the sleaze of Soderbergh’s Magic Mike to diving head first into Lee Daniels’ completely unhinged The Paperboy, it’s been supremely compelling to watch a relatively vanilla performer take some serious risks.
And what more definitive way to complete the chrysalis than by graduating from the Christian Bale Academy of frightening method acting to play the extremely demanding role of a nihilistic, homophobic rodeo cowboy turned calculating messiah following a diagnosis of being HIV positive?
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