Pam McLennan

We all remember visiting an art gallery on a school trip that introduced us to the Group of Seven artists recognized and loved around the world. Well, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection houses over 6,000 pieces, including works by the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, in several galleries nestled in the woods on 10 acres in Kleinburg, Ontario.

For Tim Trieste music has become a philosophical tool. He has been a guitarist and songwriter since he was 17, but for the last 10 years has been inspired by probing such significant matters as what is reality, the meaning and purpose of life, and the importance of the connections we form with others.

Many of us grew up watching the Walt Disney TV shows and movies that introduced all those princesses, heroes, and rogues that we cherish into our old age. In “Disney on Ice,” larger-than-life characters like Mickey Mouse and his gal pal Minnie swirl across the ice, singing and acting out updated stories.

Ethan Hawke wrote ‘Rules for a Knight’ based on a letter discovered in his great-grandmother’s garage in Ohio in the early 1970s.

After more than 30 years of collecting British Victorian art, Dennis T. Lanigan of Saskatchewan has loaned some noteworthy pieces that are part of the exhibit “Beauty’s Awakening: Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries” now showing at the National Gallery of Canada.