Riverhouse Co. Kitchen and Drinkery in Lakefield
Husband-and-wife team Jeff Kirker and Karrie Galvin opened Riverhouse Co. Restaurant in 2009 and for five years it was the special occasion destination restaurant in Lakefield.
Fear and loathing in Laramie
On October 6th, 1998, 21-year-old University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was viciously beaten, crucified on a fence post, and left for dead just outside of the town of Laramie, Wyoming. The reason for the beating? Matthew Shepard was gay.
The story made international headlines, and when Matthew died of his injuries on October 12th, his story opened up a dialogue about hate crimes and prejudice.
Celebrate local trails during International Trails Week
For the third year, several community groups and volunteers are coming together to celebrate a very important piece of transportation infrastructure — trails.
We’re incredibly fortunate to have hundreds of kilometers of trails winding their way through our region, allowing for biking, walking and a variety of other uses. Not only do trails connect communities, but they also allow people to get out and about and become more physically active.
musicNOW – June 2014
Well, summer appears to be here in full effect — at least summer weather. Get on out and check out some amazing live talent in June. Reggae, Celtic, folk, blues, and much more.
Art in the Street – June 2014
Peterborough and the Kawarthas are awash with the signs of summer. The warm weather has returned, the leaves are out, flowers are in bloom, and people are out everywhere.
All the vibrancy of the season is bursting forth in the art world too, as June offers up enough creative nectar to keep you happily buzzing from place to place like a giant hummingbird punch drunk with so much variety and abundance.
Building a network of hope under the cloud of neuroblastoma
Peterborough’s Millicent MacDonald was just five weeks old when doctors found a large tumor inside her little chest.
Odd symptoms had been present since the day of her birth, which doctors and parents with more experience than hers suggested were normal challenges in a newborn, but her mother knew something wasn’t right.
“I was lucky,” recalls Milli’s mother, Janine. “I was a first-time mom so I could have been dismissed very easily.”
But her doctor trusted a young mother’s intuition and chose to order chest X-rays, and that was when Janine and Milli’s father Brian first learned the word “neuroblastoma”.
Janine says it’s odd to speak about it nine years later using the word “lucky”, but they were indeed fortunate to have caught the deadly disease so early. Doctors at SickKids Hospital in Toronto began treatment right away. Surgery and chemotherapy sessions followed along with endless follow-ups and MRIs — all inside a world of fear combatting desperate hope.
Second-Class Citizens
It’s almost quaint now to envision a time when superhero films weren’t financially viable. Throughout the 1970s to the 1990s, the major comic houses (Marvel and DC) kept afloat primarily through the strength of their print serials and limited commercial tie-ins. Adapting these stories to celluloid had only yielded eye-gougingly awful results. Google the Fantastic Four film from 1994 to meet the true face of direct-to-video.
This dearth of credibility finally ended when the acclaimed Bryan Singer (Usual Suspects, Apt Pupil) picked up the reigns to helm a mysterious adaptation of Marvel’s most recognizable entity other than Spider-Man — X-Men.
Beginning its run as X-Men #1 in 1963, the monthly publication chronicled a team of allied mutants, called “X-Men” due to their possession of the extra X-gene which grants them extraordinary and varied powers.
Peterborough commuters shifting gears in May
I moved to Cobourg early last year and one of the biggest changes for me was the longer commute to work.
In the past, my drive to the office was no more than 10 minutes, from the north end of Peterborough to downtown. That went up to about 45 minutes.
I’m far from the only Northumberland resident who commutes to Peterborough each day. There are several cars (and their drivers) that I see on the road several times a week, all headed to or from Peterborough.
kawarthaCHOW – Ceviche de Camaron with Plantain Chips
People often ask me what I’m doing since I sold my half of Be Catering, and I reply that I’m running the PC Cooking School (located upstairs at the Loblaw Superstore at Lansdowne Place in Peterborough).
Atlas Collapsed
Andrei Tarkovsky’s transcendent Stalker anticipated Chernobyl. James Bridges’ The China Syndrome preceded the Three Mile Island accident by a mere 12 days.
Gareth Edwards’ ambitious re-imagining (I hate the term reboot) of Godzilla feels no less uncomfortably prescient.
One’s mind cannot help but wander to the apocalyptic predictions aimed at the spent fuel rods housed within the unstable reactor #4 of the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
It may sound far-fetched, but this massive undertaking breathes the same toxic air as the populist American filmmaking of the 1970s — a time when mainstream cinema had a social agenda and sought to educate as well as horrify.
Godzilla began its genesis in 1954 as a harbinger of nuclear holocaust; the United States personified in a post-Hiroshima and Nagasaki environment that became one of the most enduring icons of Japanese pop culture.
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