A guitar made of thousands of pieces of Guelph made its debut at the Hillside Festival yesterday. "The instrument is made entirely of pieces of the university and city's history," creator Doug Larson said. "It's extremely local."

Amanda Kahn is nuts about deep sea sponges. Her colleagues and fellow graduate students at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories are passionate about subjects such as fish, seabirds, snails and ocean geography.

Joe Pyrah No one saw the Tuesday 3rd District primary massacre coming. Not big name pollsters, not the pundits, not the blogs and not the candidates. No one.

Nobody needs to tell Mariners CEO Howard Lincoln and team president Chuck Armstrong how painful this season has been. Irate fans have done it anyway via talk shows, blogs and newspaper letters, and they have felt the heat.

Everyone knows where Flor Crisostomo lives, even the federal immigration officials who have ordered her deported to Mexico. The reason they haven't detained her is her address — Adalberto United Methodist Church.