It’s Halloween in Peterborough, and somewhere a Trickster is playing with fire in the woods. Ursula rises from the river, her crown glinting in the setting sun as people gather around her trying to capture her beauty. Forest creatures, Mother Earth, mermaids, and even the Moon were seen haunting Peterborough this month, and yes, they […]
There are many great artists in Peterborough, one in particular whose talent captured this reporter and photographer. His name is Tedd Hucks, a tattoo artist who happens to be as kind as he is innovative, and who is drastically changing the medium with his precise and intricate visions for body art. Born and raised in […]
The stage of the Theatre on King (TTOK) is dark. People sit closely together, awaiting Festivus Rattus Rattus 2035. When the lights turn on Brad Brackenridge, playing Peterborough Mayor Daryl Bennett, is holding puppets representing City Council. Actors in large rat masks with button eyes jump out at the audience. The small, black space is […]
The tag JERM IX is familiar in Peterborough, found almost everywhere around town. Sometimes, his stenciled poetic prose screams at you from gray and desolate walls. Recently, his arrest in Port Hope has prohibited him from creating street art again any time soon. “Outside of my home, I cannot purchase or possess paint, oils, markers, […]