Scarborough Arts & Life Photos Video
“Almost cut my hair, it happened just the other day,” sings Scarborough resident Larry Kosowan, playing with his acoustic steel-string guitar. Kosowan played the song Almost Cut My Hair by Crosby, Stills and Nash in the back of the Working Dog Saloon on Tuesday night. Ironically, Kosowan did cut his hair. All twelve inches of his flowing, dark brown locks.
Florence Schelling stopped 32 of 33 shots including two in the shootout as Switzerland defeated Russia 2-1 in a shootout and claimed 5th place in women’s hockey on Monday at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games. Schelling and Russian goalkeeper Irina Gashennikova were both magnificent in net with neither willing to give in to the other. [...]
Despite missing two of the 20 shooting targets, Magdalena Neuner from Germany easily won the 12.5 kilometer mass start biathlon race Sunday, to earn her third medal – and second gold – of the 2010 Games. Neuner overcame two penalty laps and a seven second deficit in the final leg of skiing, as she passed [...]
Canadian Veronika Bauer failed to qualify for the finals in women’s aerials after placing 15th in Saturday’s qualifiers at Cypress Mountain in Vancouver. Despite sitting in third place after her first jump, Bauer could not stick the landing on her second attempt and finished the day with a total score of 160.46. Alla Tsuper of [...]
Cheryl Bernard’s Canadian women’s curling rink narrowly avoided an upset Friday night, squeaking passed Denmark 5-4 in extra ends during draw 6 action from Vancouver. Bernard battled back-and-forth with Danish skip Madeleine Dupont, who was showing better accuracy through the first half of the match, and took the lead into the eighth end. Denmark [...]
Canadian Mellisa Hollingsworth is third after the opening two runs of women’s skeleton took place on Thursday at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Vancouver. Hollingsworth, who was seen as a favourite going in, started off slowly finishing in fifth place with a time of 54.18 after the opening run. She improved in the second run posting [...]
Natalie Darwitz scored a goal and added two assists as the United States went on to beat Finland 6-0 in women’s hockey action on Thursday in Vancouver. Julie Chu, Molly Engstrom, Meghan Duggan, Hilary Knight and Karen Thatcher also scored for the U.S. (3-0) who took sole control of first place in Group B. Noora [...]
The fifth day of the 2010 Winter Olympics was filled with excitement for the host country. Tuesday saw the start of the men’s hockey tournament, as well as curling, and Canada also saw its second gold medal won by Maelle Ricker in the ladies snowboard cross. Germany also made noise in the medal standing by getting [...]
Anastazia Kuzmina of Slovakia won gold on Saturday in the women’s 7.5km biathlon sprint event at Whistler Olympic Park. This was the first gold medal for Slovakia since they first competed at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway. Since then, they have only captured one medal, silver, at the 2006 games in Turin. Kuzmina was [...]
