1974 was a big year: the OPEC oil crisis ended, Hank Aaron surpassed Babe Ruth’s all-time homerun record, Stephen King published his first novel Carrie, ABBA was on its way to superstardom, Richard Nixon resigned as a result of the Watergate scandal, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman at The Rumble in the Jungle, and the Rubik’s Cube was invented.

It was also a big year for Peterborough’s arts community. Along with his friend David Bierk and a collective of other artists, Dennis Tourbin founded Artspace — which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

ZimArt celebrates its 15th anniversary with Rice Lake 15

We came to our turn off County Road 2 so quickly that we missed the clear sign proclaiming “ZimArt’s Rice Lake Gallery 1 km.” As we doubled back to Second Line Road, an almost life-size figure in serpentine stone greeted us from the corner.

Michelle Berry is widely published in Canadian literary magazines, national newspapers, and anthologies. She teaches creative writing at both the University of Toronto and Trent University, and she is a mentor at Humber College.

In addition to her latest novel, Interference, Michelle has written four other novels (What We All Want, Blur, Blind Crescent, and This Book Will Not Save Your Life) and has published three collections of short fiction (How To Get There From Here, Margaret Lives in the Basement, and I Still Don’t Even Know You ).

This Book Will Not Save Your Life won the 2010 Colophon Award and was longlisted for the 2011 ReLit Award and I Still Don’t Even Know You won the 2011 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book Published by a Manitoba Publisher and was shortlisted for the 2011 ReLit Award.

Born in California and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, she lives with her family in Peterborough.

Interference was published in August 2014 by ECW Press.

September is always busy as parents ready children for school, colleges and university start up, and we all return to a more routine schedule.

That said, why not take a load off at one of these great shows happening in Peterborough and area? Rock and roll, roots, and BA Johnston are all coming to town.

This severely belated sequel may be arriving nearly a decade too late, and the pop lustre of its living panels may have worn off with subsequent familiarity and many inferior imitations, but it is not without its aggressive merits.

Director Robert Rodriguez and legendary scribe Frank Miller’s previous Sin City was evidently game-changing in its perhaps overly literal adaptation of Miller’s hallowed crime series. The iconic style of its filming elegantly framed a plethora of punching and brought kinky sex to the mainstream.