Local Entertainment

Joe Pillitteri interviews Marcel Morgenstern at Yuk Yuk’s, for a Music Niagara series. (Photos by Mike Balsom) Hosting a talk show is a natural extension of what Niagara-on-the-Lake comedian and business owner Joe Pillitteri does on a regular basis.

An original painting by Raymond Martin is one of the items available in the Pumphouse flash sale.

David Smith After a distinguished career in academia, and with a list of scholarly and authoritative tomes on Canadian politics, the constitution and federalism to his credit, David Smith says he might just have written his last book.

Message of love: We can strive for unconditional love for others, regardless of such characteristics as race, place of origin, age, gender, gender choice, sexual orientation, religious belief or non-belief, or disability – and more.

Playwright Keith Barker ​(from Native Earth Performing Arts) It’s the earliest opening ever for the Shaw Festival Theatre, as the 10-day run of This Is How We Got Here kicks off the 2022 season Wednesday, Feb. 9.

Jessica Linzel introduces her research into early Niagara economic development using GIS, including local spots such as the Chrysler Farm.

The current exhibition at the NOTL Museum is Photographic Memory, which explores photographs of the community from 1945 to 1985. The photos include one of Shaw Festival founder Brian Doherty, Ontario lawyer and playwright.

The Pumphouse’s administrative assistant, Jodi Eppler, has already started folding the cranes, and has received some from residents.

Musicians to perform in recent Music Niagara Festivals are Sora Sato-Mound (top left), Donovan Locke and Alisha Oliver (top right), Emma Meinrenken (bottom left) and Atis Bankas, Victoria Kogan and Dobrochna Zubek (bottom right).

This is a still from the Kimiko’s Pearl video, with Alanna McAdie as Kimiko, and Chenxin Liu and Yue Shi as Natsue and Shizuo Ayukawa .