It’s now less than five days out, yet it feels as if the Worst. Election. Ever. is months away.
Some would conclude that’s because we want it to be over so badly that scant minutes seem like interminable hours. I thought it was due to a proliferation of regurgitated piffle — tweeted, re-tweeted, hash-tagged and Facebooked — which left voters feeling they’ve been forced to perform as unacknowledged and unappreciated extras in a remake of Groundhog Day.
For those of us who have large numbers of trees on our property, the raking is in full swing. Paper leaf bags have been a hot commodity in most stores as the colourful leaves are quickly coming off the trees in great numbers. While raking isn’t much fun, there are many benefits to be had from leaves, especially for gardeners.
When we remove the leaves from our yards, we’re actually interrupting the natural process that allows the return of beneficial nutrients to the soil.
This autumn, Lang Pioneer Village in Keene is giving visitors a completely new way to see the village — at night. The series of lantern-led tours through the village are the first of their kind in Lang’s 47 years of operation.
Peterborough has an exclusive chance to see, hear, and experience the vision of renowned Canadian photojournalist Larry Towell at “Blood In The Soil”, a special fundraising event presented by SPARK Photo Festival at the Market Hall on Monday, October 27.
Over the years, Larry has worked as the only Canadian freelance photographer with the prestigious Magnum Photos Agency in areas of conflict.
We all remember the winter of 2013-14. It wasn’t uncommon to wake up to temperatures well below -20°C, the snow seemed almost endless, and the ice storm that some parts of our region suffered through was devastating to forests.
Wildlife also suffered. With many food sources coated in ice during the late December ice storm, I noticed a dramatic increase in the number birds of visiting my feeders.
It’s going to be a blistering night of the blues in Peterborough when guitarist Coco Montoya and piano player Victor Wainwright come to town.
Peterborough has had a long love affair with improv comedy, and local actress and radio personality Linda Kash is raising the bar in our community for this unique form of comedy.
With her monthly improv nights at The Venue in downtown Peterborough, Linda is introducing big-city talent to the small-city stage in a series of special dinner theatre performances.
The next show on Thursday, October 16th will prove to be a very special one indeed. A veteran of The Second City stage, Linda is bringing some of her fellow performers from her early days doing improv in Toronto for a special reunion full of food, laughter, and fun.
It’s impossible to tell all the stories there are to tell over the 50 years that Trent University has been a part of the Peterborough community, but writer Beth McMaster and director Gillian Wilson are going to make a handful of these stories come alive on Saturday, October 18th at Showplace Performance Centre.
I took advantage of the extended breaks between rain showers over the weekend to do some clean up in the backyard. Withered plant stocks were removed, frostbitten annuals pulled out and soil turned over, ready to be planted in the spring.
As nature prepares to take an extended nap over the colder months ahead, we sometimes think that all the gardening activities we partake in outside also have to come to an end. While this is true for many, composting is not one of them.
It’s a sign of the times when America’s premiere techno-sexual misanthrope is dictating how men and women should feel towards one and other — and, not surprisingly, it’s not a message of love. David Fincher’s boldly austere adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s thriller Gone Girl treads similar thematic threads to his previous work, a rather flaccid and “so what?” inducing translation of Stieg Larsson’s troubling Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Both works centre around a deeply damaged male-female dynamic where both parties are damaged and thus depicted as consummately duplicitous. Though this masterful yarn will easily mop the floor with the competing Liam Neeson paint-by-numbers shoot ’em up du jour being released this weekend.
The misleading trailers suggest a cat-and-mouse whodunnit starring the male half of Gigli — and to a degree this is true — but this anti-date movie is a supremely pertinent discourse on gender roles in the total media age.
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