Author Amber Richardson

This past weekend marked the 41st annual Brantford International Villages Festival. 15 villages were scattered across Brantford, enticing people with their exotic dances, traditional dress, and mouthwatering...

Canada Day. Photo courtesy of Ian Muttoo/Wikimedia Commons. While others prepared for a day filled with fun and fireworks, dozens of brave people became new Canadian citizens. Canada Day kicked off with ...

On June 22, the Brantford Memorial Concert at Bell Homestead brought over 100 people together for an afternoon of music in the sun. The band sat picturesquely poised beneath a willow tree, playing their spri...

June 20-21 marked Brantford’s fourth annual Pride Celebration. The festivities kicked off with the raising of the rainbow flag at city hall. LGBT community members and allies gathered at 100 Wellington Squ...

Webcams will be used by professors to monitor students during online examinations (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons). For just over a year, Wilfrid Laurier University has been using a program called Resp...

Patrons get to enjoy a cold one while perusing ROM's many exhibits. Photo by Amber Richardson. Friday nights through the end of June are exceedingly live at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Friday Night...

On June 15, Brantford will be celebrating World Elder Abuse Awareness Day along with many other global communities. On May 26, 2014, city council proclaimed that June 15 is “World Elder Abuse Awareness Day...

Fox 40 and Fluke Transportation Chair and CEO Ron Foxcroft with Brant Community Fountation Executive Director Joanne Lewis (photo by Amber Richardson). On June 10, The Brant Community Foundation hosted its ...

Since May 2003, the City of Brantford has been implementing strict watering restrictions in an effort to lower water consumption throughout the summer months. According to Leanne Knuckle of the City of Brantfor...

Brantford's Telephone City Musical Society (TCMS) is honoring the 70-year anniversary of D-Day with a memorial concert in partnership with Brantford Pipes & Drums. June 6, 2014 marks the 70-year annivers...

Victoria Park in Brantford. Photo by Amber Richardson. Recreation and Parks month has been in June since 2005, and was started in an effort to encourage Ontario citizens to be more involved with their comm...

On June 2, organizers of Brantford’s Canada Day celebration met with Mayor Chris Friel and held a media conference to unveil the festivities planned for Canada’s 147th birthday. Brantford Parks and Recreati...

Sons of Revelry. By Cody Hoffman. Sons of Revelry is an infant band in the music industry, but in the past 10 months as a group, they have been making waves in the North American music scene. The group star...

Craig Cardiff. By Cody Groat. Craig Cardiff is a Canadian folk musician, who is celebrated from coast to coast. Cardiff’s smooth vocals and acoustic guitar landed him two nominations in 2012, for a Juno a...

“We haven’t made it yet. Wherever we end up, we’re still trying.” - Human Kebab. Courtesy ofmusiccanada.com. What do you get when you mix quirky introvert Ashley “Ash Boo-Shultz” Buccholz with o...

July Talk. Courtesy of yaletownfm.com. Last week I got the pleasure of speaking with Leah Fay of Toronto’s most dynamic indie rock band, July Talk. July Talk debuted with their self-titled album after onl...

The Calendar Girls ring in the New Year in the buff. From left to right: Deanna Stevens, Linda Lloyd-McKenzie, Sophia Buzzelli, Elizabeth Durand, Jessica O'Connor and Valerie Harrison. Courtesy of Heather Card...

Armand is a Toronto-based singer/songwriter who has been pouring his heart and soul into his music since he was just a high school sophomore. He has an unrequited love for all performance arts, which is refresh...

Every year, the same old Christmas carols infiltrate the airwaves and instead of letting us enjoy the holidays, they make us wish Christmas was over sooner. It’s time to crush the carol-bashing attitudes by i...

  Flamingo Báy, from left to right: Dillon Henningson, Vince Rankin, and Kris Gies. Amber Richardson.   Flamingo Báy is a trio based in Hamilton, consisting of Kris Gies on bass and vocals...

  Ambition Music Group, from left to right: Brandon Pakeman, Taj Johnson, and Martin Pitt. Cody Groat Ambition Music Group (AMG) is a group consisting of three Laurier Brantford students: Martin Pit...

On October 30, Classic Albums Live performed their rendition of the Beatles’ popular album, Abbey Road. The show was held at Sanderson Centre and drew a larger than expected crowd of Beatles enthusiasts both ...

A crazy cat lady’s SUV. Rebecca Duce Everybody has seen them - you know, those stupid little white families on the back of every single mini-van. There are zombie families, Disney families, sporty familie...

Downtown Brantford during the blackout. Amber Richardson On October 22 at approximately 6:45 p.m., most of downtown Brantford experienced a power outage. All classes and exams came to a screeching halt, and...

Musicians perform in the BSO. Amber Richardson The Brantford Symphony Orchestra has intermittently been a part of Brantford’s music scene since 1919. After a few times disbanding, the Brantford Symphony O...

Dj Vekked. Photo courtesy of sneakersandale.com   DJ Vekked is undoubtedly one of Canada’s most impressive DJs, holding the national DMC title three years in a row, and both the DMC World Supremacy ...

September 24th marked the highly anticipated release of Drake’s newest album Nothing Was the Same. A tasteful requiem to his music’s evolution, this album features sultry sounds that embody Drake’s self-r...

Jess Manente Brittany Wilson Rhiannon Myers.(Photos by Cody Hoffman)                          Fall fa...

Matthew Good, Arrows of Desire  3/5 Canadian icon Matthew Good released his latest studio album Arrows of Desire on September 24th. The album has a familiar Matt Good sting to it--the one that makes you que...

What is Cinema? Photo courtesy of tiff.net The world premiere of Chuck Workman’s What is Cinema? debuted this past Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film was a riveting por...