All posts by “Eugene Knapik”

March 9, 2017
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Newberry and Verch

Two of my fave players April Verch and Joe Newberry, performing together. This video includes April Verch playing fiddle and step-dancing together. Wonderful! I’ve had to opportunity to meet Joe Newberry at Midwest Banjo Camp, attend some of his classes and play music with him… Read More

March 8, 2017
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Kidney Car

We bought a 2001 Corolla back in 2007. It was in great shape with only 53k km on it and it’s been a fantastic car for us. It’s getting old though, and it was time to get Tuffy P something considerably newer, and at this… Read More

March 7, 2017
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183

I’ve seen posts recently on social media celebrating Toronto’s 183rd birthday. In the scheme of things we really have a young city, don’t we? It seems in recent years Toronto has been undergoing accelerated change, and that is something we can all see in so… Read More

March 5, 2017
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Learning Go with some online help

One of the barriers to learning the game of Go is that even though the game has simple rules, play can be incredibly complex and there are so many facets and concepts it can easily be overwhelming and discouraging. Becoming a Go player takes time… Read More

Filed under: Go
March 4, 2017
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Old Friends + vermicelli

We trundled off to yumart today as our old friend Claude Breeze’s exhibition TOYBOX was opening up. We’ve known Claude since about 1980 or 1981, when we were among his painting students at York University. Somehow or another, after we graduated from York we remained… Read More