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The Concerts

Foreign Journey A Tribute to Foreigner & Journey

Nov 6, 2026 8:00 PM Showplace Performance Centre Foreign Journey is built for the big-room, fists-in-the-air end of the classic-rock spectrum — the part where melody ruled, choruses landed like weather systems, and nobody was embarrassed […]

The Interviews

Interview: Bazil Donovan

The year was 1984 and Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor and Bob Wiseman decided to put together a band and call it Blue Rodeo. Joined by bassist Bazil Donovan and Cleave Anderson on the drums, they […]

Community

Trent Radio’s Fundrai$io Is Back, Because Community Radio Doesn’t Keep Itself Alive

This April, Trent Radio launches the third year of Fundrai$io — its week-long, slightly cheeky, entirely necessary fundraiser celebrating the scrappy miracle of community radio. Running Sunday, April 12 through Saturday, April 18, the annual […]

Music News with Dee Draper

Jacob Moon Brings Timeless Classics to Ontario Stages 2026 March 26, 2026
37th Album for Ken Whiteley, Canadian Folk Legend. March 7, 2026
Brettyn Rose Releases Single-'Leavin On My Lips' & Debut EP, 'The Wild West' March 5, 2026
Olivia Penalva's Distance Makes A Love Story. February 19, 2026
MARSHALL DANE's NEW SINGLE 'SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE' February 19, 2026

In The Clubs

THE HIP EXPERIENCE

Friday, November 6 • 8:00 PM Market Hall The Hip Experience was formed with a single, daunting mission: to do justice to The Tragically Hip, a band that, in this country, occupies the space somewhere […]

THEATRE

New Stages presents Clyde’s

Sunday, June 14 • 7:00 PM Historic Market Hall From the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright behind Sweat, Clyde’s is a sharp, funny, unexpectedly tender comedy set inside a truck-stop sandwich shop—one of those fluorescent-lit corners of […]

Comedy

Wes Barker: Mostly Magic, Mostly Mayhem

FRIDAY, MARCH 27 • 8:00 PM Market Hall Performing Arts Centre In MOSTLY MAGIC, Wes Barker doesn’t just blur the line between genius and absolute chaos—he sprints across it, waving sparklers and laughing like a […]

Horror Scopes

HorrorScopes: March 2026

Aries March tempts you with “fresh starts,” and you sprint toward them like a motivational poster with anger issues. You’ll announce a bold new plan mid-month — fitness, finances, relationships, something dramatic — and abandon […]

Local Politics

CITY: Towers First, Questions Later

City Hall this week spent a fair bit of time talking about height — specifically how high Peterborough might soon reach into the sky — while a few of the city’s more stubborn problems sat […]

The Arts

JoEllen Brydon: Elizabeth Thompson Advises

April 12, 2026 – June 14, 2026 Art Gallery of Peterborough Guest curated by Rhona Wegner Jean Armstrong Brydon was born and raised on a fruit farm in Beamsville, Ontario, but she entered public life […]

Indie Spotlight

Carling Stephen: The Soul of a Thursday Night

On a quiet Thursday in downtown Peterborough, you can hear it before you see it—the low hum of conversation, the clink of pint glasses, and then that unmistakable voice. Inside The Black Horse Pub, Carling […]

Dance

The Restless Choreographer Who Rewrote the Rules of Dance Cinema

Friday March 27, 7pmArt Gallery of Peterborough Laura Taler didn’t just cross borders—she obliterated them entirely. From the dance studios of Romania to the experimental film circuits of Canada, this boundary-smashing artist has spent three […]

Dining

Village of Thai: A Humble Gem in the Heart of Peterborough

241 George St N, Peterborough If you find yourself drifting through downtown Peterborough on a quiet evening—maybe after a walk by the river or browsing the quirky shops on George Street—you might miss it entirely. […]

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Promising Peterborough Nothing Since 1989

The Concerts

Foreign Journey A Tribute to Foreigner & Journey

The Interviews

Interview: Bazil Donovan

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Community

Trent Radio’s Fundrai$io Is Back, Because Community Radio Doesn’t Keep Itself Alive

Music News with Dee Draper

In The Clubs

THE HIP EXPERIENCE

THEATRE

New Stages presents Clyde’s

Comedy

Wes Barker: Mostly Magic, Mostly Mayhem

Horror Scopes

HorrorScopes: March 2026

Local Politics

CITY: Towers First, Questions Later

The Arts

JoEllen Brydon: Elizabeth Thompson Advises

Indie Spotlight

Carling Stephen: The Soul of a Thursday Night

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Dance

The Restless Choreographer Who Rewrote the Rules of Dance Cinema

Dining

Village of Thai: A Humble Gem in the Heart of Peterborough

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