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Music (and food!) for every taste at Peterborough Ribfest

Harlan Pepper (clockwise from bottom left: Dan Edmonds, Thompson Wilson, Jimmy Hayes, Marlon Nicolle) headline the music at Ribfest on Friday night (publicity photo)

The 11th Annual Peterborough Ribfest features succulently prepared ribs and sauces, but among the meaty festivities and sweet-smelling smoke, there will be even more to enjoy at Millennium Park this weekend.

There will be eclectic offerings from great local restaurants, including The Shish-Kabob Hut, The Works, Dr. Hunger, Island Cream Caribbean Cuisine, The Nutty Chocolatier, Ariyana, and The Silver Bean Cafe.

After all of the great food, you’ll certainly want to leave room for the excellent array of free live music featured in the park all weekend.

kawarthaCHOW – It’s Strawberry Season

Strawberry Clafouti (photo: Tracy Benjamin)

Good things grow-oh-oh in Ontario, and right now we’re in prime strawberry season.

Ontario strawberries are widely available and they’re a sure sign that summer is finally here.

Are We Really Progressive?

Protest in Sacramento in 2008 against the passage of Proposition 8 banning gay marriage in California (photo: Shutterstock)

When I was a teenager, I wasn’t very open minded. I grew up in a small farming town surrounded by other small farming towns. Most everyone in town was white, and the only thing considered taboo was if your neighbour bought a car that didn’t say Ford, Dodge or Chevrolet on the hood.

KNosh News – July 2013

Thomas Olszewski's Greek salad with pickled beets at Grandfather's Kitchen (photo: Ria Wood)

Grandfather’s Kitchen

Thomas Olszewski has recently opened a new restaurant in Peterborough at the corner of Townsend and Rubidge Streets. Grandfather’s Kitchen is Anishenabi (First Nations) owned and operated and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

For breakfast, the current menu features lots of omelette varieties, hash browns, and whole grain sourdough bread.

Ashburnham Ale House – Craft Beer Cafe

Ashburnham Ale House is the most anticipated project in East City since the Lift Locks (photo: Carol Lawless)

Some of the best ideas are born from a day of cycling.

That, and good food and drink — shared with family and friends.

If you’re Scott and Nollie Wood, you spin that passion for what you love most in life and create one of East City’s most anticipated developments since the completion of the Lift Locks.

Situated amidst the backdrop of the Rotary Trail in the historic village of Ashburnham, the appropriately named Ashburnham Ale House is a reflection of all that the Woods hold near and dear: food and drink made in the time-honoured traditions of smoking, curing, and small-batch brewing, shared amongst friends and community in a setting that’s warm and welcoming.

Brant Basics – A pillar of downtown Peterborough for 49 years

The indomitable family dynamic behind Brant Basics: Jeff Cox, founder Morris Cox, David Cox, and Susan Sharp
The indomitable family dynamic behind Brant Basics: Jeff Cox, founder Morris Cox, David Cox, and Susan Sharp
The indomitable family dynamic behind Brant Basics: Jeff Cox, founder Morris Cox, David Cox, and Susan Sharp

2013 is rapidly shaping up to be a milestone year for Brant Basics.

In addition to celebrating its 49th year in operation, the intrepid company is embarking upon an innovative merge with Dave Curtis of office furniture retailer Dave’s At Work.

Peterborough In Portrait

"Peterborough in Portrait: Our Inclusive Community" runs until June 22 at the Canadian Canoe Museum

Celebrating an inclusive city and county, Community Living Peterborough has organized a vast exhibition of “Peterborough portraits” on display now at the Canadian Canoe Museum (910 Monaghan Road, Peterborough).

The exhibition includes portraits by amateurs, professionals, kids, grandparents, and everyone in between.

American Gods: Man of Steel

The Year: 2013.

The Planet: Earth.

The Epidemic: Hollywood continues to eat itself alive with remakes, becoming so violently pervasive that the more-palatable nom de guerre “reboot” has been aggressively adopted.

Reboots generally transpire in the once-fledgling superhero genre: when a franchise grows stale — or worse, gets off to a financially disastrous false start — it is swiftly given a complete whitewash to eradicate any former memories of its inferior incarnations.

There are successful reboots (J.J. Abrams’ deliriously entertaining Star Trek resurrection) and not-so-successful reboots (last summer’s all-but-ignored The Amazing Spider-man; no, I didn’t watch it either).

Jadea Kelly – Living in Clover

Jadea Kelly (photo: Jen Squires)

When you choose to pursue a life in music, triumphs can be few and far between, and finding a unique and compelling voice can be as rare as finding a four-leaf clover.

Thankfully, with her new release Clover, Jadea Kelly has found her voice, and it’s an intriguing marriage of both old and new.

Featuring heavy orchestration, layered harmonies and sonic space, Clover represents a significant musical shift for Jadea — a unique union of Iris De Ment’s vocal ache and heavy Portishead ambience and percussion.

Inspired and named after her grandfather’s farm in rural Ontario, Clover touches on the relationship between farming and working as a musician.

Art on the Street – June 2013

Skyscapes by Melissa Bothwell-Inglis is on display at Black Honey until June 17

Skyscapes by Melissa Bothwell-Inglis at Black Honey

Melissa Bothwell-Inglis has long been creating interesting things. You may know her from repeated displays at the annual Focus Fair that runs each December at the Spill Café.

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