PtboPic: View of the Peterborough Lift Lock
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[photo submitted by Julie, @cupcakeJu]
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20th Annual Great Gilmour Street Garage Sale Was a Grand Old Time
/The 20th Annual Great Gilmour Street Garage Sale was today, and thousands of people showed up on a beautiful day in the Patch. Just about everything was up for sale, from baked goods and books to kid's toys and antiques. Numerous fundraising groups were at this epic garage sale, such as Plants for Parkinson's, Elizabeth Fry Society and Rock Camp for Girls (aka RC4G), who were selling used items to go to their camper subsidy and gear funds.
Here's some pictures our Creative Director Evan Holt took at the event, which is so popular it spills over into neighbouring streets.
[Related: An event first, a yard sale second]
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Walkwel Shoes (Still Weird Not To Have It Around Anymore)
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Peterborough's Walkwel -- which opened in 1939 -- officially closed its doors a week ago today.
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Did Tyler Calver Lose A Bet Or Something?
/Because he wore his tie like this for his entire segment last night on Chex Newswatch and at the end of the newscast. In other words, he had plenty of opportunity to adjust that tie.
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PtboPic: Only In Peterborough would you find a guy playing table top hockey while the Stanley Cup goes by....
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[photo submitted by Pete Dalliday, @petedalliday]
[Related: Messier delivers the Stanley Cup to PMHA Mad Dogs]
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PtboPic: View from Bridge over Beautiful water in Beavermead Park
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[photo submitted by Julie, @cupcakeJu]
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Peterborough's The Spades Rock. Just Sayin'
/And they're playing the Historic Red Dog this Saturday! Bring it.
[The Spades website; The Spades on twitter; The Historic Red Dog]
[Related: The Spades lucky to survive latest road tour]
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Peterborough's Art Supply Stores (We Are Pretty Lucky To Have Some Gems)
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I must confess to being a bit of a sucker for an art supply store. When I was a kid, growing up in Peterborough, I wasn't aware of any art supply stores. In those days, you picked up "art supplies" at Towers on Lansdowne Street. They were hardly art supplies as you might think of them, but to me, being 10 years old, I guess they fit the bill. Construction paper, scissors, bottles of glue with the red rubber squishy top—they were all readily available.
When I left Peterborough to go to art school in Toronto, that is when I discovered what a real art supply store could be. While the college where I went to school had some art supplies, they had nothing on Curry's, downtown on Yonge Street in Toronto. Walls of tactile papers, markers, paints and pencils, all taunting money from my pocket. In the years that followed, I found stores like Gwartzman's on Spadina and Aboveground Art Supplies that seemed to have a impossibly comprehensive selection.
These days, here in Peterborough, we are pretty lucky. Things have changed. We have more than department stores now as a resource when it comes to art supplies. If I suddenly run out of Yellow Ochre oil paint, lino-block or those nice small bottles of black india ink, I’ve got choices. Sure, I could go to Michael's on Lansdowne—they've pretty much got anything you might be looking for. But the ambiance is not really in keeping with the artsy feel I’d become used to. I like to go where like minds meet.
The Blue Tomato Art Shop on Hunter Street has art supplies. They also have gallery space, where they show and sell local art. Finding art treasures alongside lino-block and a lovely selection of Japanese paper makes for a nice experience. There is a gallery upstairs, too, which pretty much demands a visit. Local art is a top priority at the Blue Tomato.
Victory Art Supply, located in the Cox Terrace on Rubidge Street, has most anything you will need, sans the gallery space of the Blue Tomato. Here you will find a compact space, filled with everything from ready stretched canvases to fine pencils, and a wide selection of watercolour papers and frames. While the space is not large, there is still a lot of poking around to be had, which is all part of the fun.
If I were a young artist growing up in Peterborough, the resources are aplenty for creating and experiencing visual art. Make it.
—Jeffrey Macklin, PtboCanada contributor
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Platinum Blonde Playing The Montreal House
/Since Platinum Blonde is playing the MOHO this Friday, we got a little nostalgic:
[Platinum Blonde, The Montreal House]
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Update on 2010-06-02 18:38 by PTBOCANADA
Here's video from their gig at Montreal House.
