Drummer Mike Cooper didn’t realize he wanted to form a band until he worked the bar at his family’s tavern one night...
Drummer Mike Cooper didn’t realize he wanted to form a band until he worked the bar at his family’s tavern one night...
On November 14th, 2024, David Frank celebrated his centenarian birthday at his current place of work, Division Road...
Billy Raffoul was nine years old the first time he stepped onstage with his father, local rocker Jody Raffoul.
Windsor Life checks-in with the people at the center of some of our most interesting past stories.
Mr. Emancipation: The Walter Perry Story is an account of Windsor’s Walter Perry, whose progressive festival flourished...
To speak with pianist Christine Vanderkooy is to immediately feel her love of music radiating from her being.
Sometimes, great ideas sound crazy at first. The idea for a darts league for blind and partially sighted people came up...
Tera Gillen-Petrozzi’s Big Brother Canada audition tape sums it all up: “My name is Tera. I’m 37. I’m from LaSalle...
Menstrual care is a much-needed service around the world, yet it’s one that is often overlooked or ignored. Ezra...
There’s one golf league in Windsor-Essex that is anything but par for the course. On Monday mornings, a gang of seniors...
Julia Lane began collecting a list of achievements and awards in competitive swimming in 2014, and she’s not done...
If there is one museum in Essex County that represents this region’s history, it is the Canadian Transportation Museum...
Formed from strong doses of Detroit rock, rhythm and blues, Guitar Army has been kickin’ out the jams on the...
Windsor Police Services’ Deputy Chief Pam Mizuno knew something was up when she was invited to St. Catholic Elementary...
A small act of kindness can make someone’s day or even save someone’s life; this is the motto that drove co-founders...
Prior to the early months of 2020, the idea of a global pandemic shutting down the world was the stuff of dystopian...
n the July 9th edition of the newspaper, a small blurb appeared on the front page, titled “Name is Changed by Country...
Chase Pinsonneault is the third generation of the Pinsonneault racing family of Essex County.
Back in 2017, a group of family members and good friends gathered to jam in someone’s basement, when magic happened.
Blessed with singing voices ‘from the Gods’, Jody, Billy and Peter possess unrelenting drive, dedication and an...
In the Liviero home, “Sunday is Pizza Day,” says John, owner of Sooter’s Photography. He and his wife, Anita, fire up...
For Windsor-born Musician William Hawksworth, everything he’s done can be traced back to those long summer nights.
Born one year apart in the early 1960’s to teenaged parents, Tim and Ty were placed in separate foster homes before...
Known as Jaxon Henderson in the streets of Chatham-Kent but as YVNG JRIP (Young Drip) in the music sheets, this 17-year...
Local Couple Appears on Ellen’s Game of Games Story by Michael SeguinFeature Photo (above) by Mountain Escape...
It all started with an advertisement on television. A 30-second-long video that highlighted the beauty of Canada’s...
Local Photographer Travels to Indonesia to Capture Otherworldly Images Story by Matthew St. AmandPhotography by...
How far would you go to save a stranger’s life? That’s the central question posited by Gavin Michael Booth’s feature film Last Call, which recently opened in theatres around the world.
Creating music has always been the lifelong passion of Chris Taylor, the President of Music Global at Entertainment One. “I was always playing in bands in Windsor, growing up,” Chris explains. “Even when I was doing my...
Five skilled weavers in Nepal sat side by side weaving for an entire year to craft a 9’ by 12’ rug commissioned for a Lakeshore home. Blending 60 percent silk with 40 percent wool yarn, the weavers handtied 100 knots...
Danielle Campo-McLeod’s parents realized something was different about her when she was still an infant. “When I was 15 to 16 months old, my Mom started noticing that I was walking differently,” Danielle explains. “I...
The Bishop Boys consists of Windsor’s Austin Di Pietro and Andrew Adoranti. The young musical duo is studiously redefining the singer-songwriter genre through their distinguished unison vocals, poetic lyricism and...
Olympic athlete Noelle Montcalm was initially drawn to track and field because of the solitary nature of the sport.
Perhaps no one was in a more vulnerable position when the COVID-19 pandemic entered our community than the residents in retirement homes. However, while horror stories abound about outbreaks and lockdowns, three local...
When you enter the ring, local fighter T.J. Laramie states, everything has a way of melting away. “You could never grasp exactly what it feels like unless you’re in the ring,” T.J. admits.







