Cross country ride

According to Jaitly, traditional art representing these states could not be found very easily: she documented their rich textile traditions, jewellery and cane and bamboo furniture. Her claim notwithstanding, the disparity in the volumes of text devoted to different states is bound to make one wonder: if the Northeast has become fiercely protective and insular about its artistic legacies, is it ...

Book on container gardens needs more space: Homeowner's Bookshelf

This week: Books on small-space container gardening, attracting the right birds, and designing your home space.

Community Calendar

Listings are published as space allows each week. E-mail listings to cp.calendar@sunmedia.ca. Deadline for inclusion in Thursday's paper is Monday at 9 a.m. May 17 Norwood & District Horticultural Society — Annual spring garden and plant sale.[...]

Grandmother's Heirloom Handiwork

Grandmother's Heirloom Handiwork, this booklet has no date on it but has the feel and appearance of needlework books of the late '70's and early '80's such as "Stitch'n'Sew" or "Popular Needlework."

Evelyne Politanoff: Cristóbal Balenciaga: The Great Master of Couture

Velvet boleros, satin torero costumes, magnificent capes and mantelets, cashmere stoles, lace mantillas, dresses, samples of embroidery and trimming, all these lavish items figure in profusion in this collection assembled by the the great master of couture and generously donated to the museum by his family.

Polish PM visits Wilno, home of Canada’s first Polish settlement

When the guests gathered to welcome Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to Wilno — a small hamlet west of Ottawa and, more importantly, the site of Canada’s first Polish settlement — they sang the national anthems of their two beloved homelands with the same reverence and conviction, a signal that this place, deep in the Madawaska Valley, is as proudly Polish as it is Canadian.