Beat the winter blahs with burlesque
If you’ve seen the movie Burlesque starring Christina Aguilera and Cher, you know how exciting burlesque can be. When I saw it I fell in love with the idea of …
Month: March 2016
Trent Radio Horoscopes
All shows broadcast through the facilities of Trent Radio 92.7 FM CFFF in Peterborough. Aquarius: Two if by sea, but one if by email. Check your inbox in the coming …
Fashion is wearable art
Fashion is art. It is an art with form and utilitarian value; righteously entitled to the same pedestal as any other art form.The history of the relationship between art …
Who does Beowulf’s laundry?
When, with its baffling comparisons and stylistic pirouettes, the post-postmodern criticism of the thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is finally written, it will begin like this: On December 22, 1938, in …
Just Like New: find something worthy around every corner
You probably aren’t going to stumble in to it. It’s a nondescript building, clandestine from the humdrum of downtown bustling, a sign reads “Just Like New.” If luck has it …
What art means to me
I wish I could say that everyone has an artistic flare hidden away deep inside of them waiting to be expressed, but this is just not the case. Although fear …
Poetry by Leina Amatsuji-Berry
One (2012) One Outstanding Anomaly Strange. A prime that every composite peer will disengage. It takes time Inevitability But it always ends the same. The last passenger on a never-ending …
Bad Love, bad poetry…good time
Thursday night might have been the night of “Bad Love,” but the atmosphere in the room was far from angry. Trent Writers Society (TWS) held their first open mic poetry …
A Traill worth following
Slopes and steps, About the crows. Trace footsteps, Throughout the snow. Ice and slush, To slip and slide, Between the mush, We gently glide. Glide. Glide. Over the tide. Up …
The Fox Garden
the fox called wises flicks away the fleas paw over paw and he waves his tail so gracefully wizard, waiting, wistful wises asks me about my eyeballs paw over paw …