Booklovers!
Mark Jokinen’s: Window shopping will provide some great selections including Italian holocaust survivor, Primo Levi’s harrowing novel If Not Now, When? Also in the window is Run With The Hunted: …
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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 …
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 …
Africa is not a country!
Africa is Not a Country! ….Were the words I wanted to scream out loud while watching Blended, a romantic comedy starring Adam Sandler, in addition to addressing the other gross …
Seeds of Change a community hub
Seeds of Change is a community hub operating out of George Street United Church just north of the downtown. They deliver programs that cultivate social justice, spirituality and artistic expression, …
The imminent issue of rising costs and homelessness in Peterborough
Peterborough is no stranger to the issue of homelessness. Walking downtown, it wouldn’t take long to spot a few disenfranchised souls wandering the street, sometimes offering a friendly “hello,” and …
The Pit and The Pendulum: #BlackMusicMatters
1989 is an album by Taylor Swift. 1989 is also the opening line of the Public Enemy song, ‘Fight the Power.’ Well, actually, the full line goes “1989, the number/another …
Black Heritage Month: booklovers guide
Starting at Dixon’s Book Store, look in the fiction section for Our Sister Killjoy by Ghanaian poet and playwright Ama Ata Aidoo for $7.95. In the same section, search out …
#BlackLivesMatter: the central problem with the #AllLivesAllMatter movement
On Aug. 9, 2014, underneath the scorching sun lay the lifeless body of an unarmed black teen: Michael Brown, riddled with bullets. Amidst controversy, tragedy and hope, Black Lives Matter …
Self-love in: The Year We Thought About Love
Co- written by Lyne Dwyer Boston’s True Colors: OUT Youth Theatre is America’s oldest queer youth theatre. During the 2012-2013 school year, Ellen Brodsky took her camera into their rehearsal …