Trent Film Society Presents: The 400 Blows
François Truffaut’s debut feature The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups, 1959) was welcomed at Cannes Film Festival to overwhelming praise and admiration. Proclaimed as being one of the defining …
Month: January 2014
‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ Feels Like A Bad Episode of Homeland
Jack Ryan, hero of Tom Clancy’s series of novels, is a character born out of the Cold War era. An analyst with the CIA who, more often than not, found …
Local Tunes: Cold Creek County
Local grown talent is my favourite kind to promote and observe because I feel like I’m rooting for a home team or the musical equivalent. There’s something very special in …
The Breakfast Project: Queensway Restaurant
Breakfast. It’s a universal word everyone can relate to. It’s the cereal you toss into a bowl with some almost-expired milk in the morning, it’s the slices of bread you …
Review of Jane Werger’s Production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters
The opening night of the Peterborough Theatre Guild’s production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters (1900-1901) was a resounding success. I revisited Chekhov’s text and it appears that director Jane Werger …
Optimism in the Air: Trent Men’s Hockey
Trent’s Men’s hockey team hasn’t managed to notch a championship win in their first two tournaments and in exhibition play they have only managed as many wins as loses; despite …
Frost Week Volleyball Fun
Trent kicked off the start of the winter semester with Frost Week activities, wrapping up the festivities was Men’s and Women’s volleyball doubleheaders both Saturday and Sunday. Starting off the …
Community-Based Education in the City of Kawartha Lakes
I’m writing this article to spread the word about the best kept secret at Trent. This “best kept secret” is community-based education, and I would like to take this opportunity …
Spoon Fed food column returns with a message and a promise
Photo by Andrew Tan. As we hope you already know, the Seasoned Spoon is a non-profit, vegetarian, cooperative café located in Champlain College. While the Spoon’s inception 10 years ago …
Trent Student Spotlight: Michael Peers, Ecological Researcher
Trent University Environmental and Life Sciences Master’s student Michael Peers had an exclusive interview with the Arthur about his two latest studies on the Canada lynx. The studies were published …