Reading Time: 3 minutesDay five of the festival saw Norwegian electronic producer brings his signature tropical house sound to Ottawa, along with Lennon Stella, Buddy Guy and Sue Folley
Arts
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Las Vegas quartet projected contagious energy off the stage, leaving spectators bouncing, swaying and signing every word
Reading Time: 4 minutesPUP, the Glorious Sons and Dawn Tyler Watson were among those that hit the stage Saturday
Reading Time: 3 minutesA new CBC Ottawa podcasts is helping survivors of sexual abuse at Bell High School ‘speak in their own words’
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 44th U.S. president talked Canada-U.S. relations, digital tech, and science and facts over fear
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe annual festival runs from Sept. 12-15 in Lansdowne Park
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe decided to get nostalgic and dig through the archives in honour of our final print issue to present you with some of the classic hits from days of yore: Arts through the decades.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs in his past works of fiction, Midnight Sweatlodge (2012) and Legacy (2014), Rice uses a veil of storytelling to allow his readers to live through the difficulties, complications and celebrations of reserve life.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe name of the exhibition, Inter-NoUs, is a bilingual play on words that captures that relationship across different artistic practices and generations.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPrisoners pushes the boundaries of the thriller genre, posing the question: how far would you go to protect your child?
Reading Time: 2 minutesCampus radio station CHUO highlights musical talent around Ottawa. Take a listen.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fact that Radisson is only briefly mentioned in the footnotes of others’ textbooks proves, once again, that the devil really is in the details.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA member of Greenland’s Inuit community, Vivi Sørensen said she was compelled to properly tell the stories of Indigenous Peoples. “My main reason for wanting to direct is the fact that our stories … are always told from outside. And I felt like there’s a misportrayal, there’s something that’s wrong.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite the colourful cover art and poppy sound, the lyrics on Get to Heaven are extremely bleak. They’re filled with obtuse references to ISIS, mass shootings, political corruption, and general cynicism about the current state of affairs.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBalancing graduate school with music isn’t easy, but to Lu it’s essential.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is enough personal and professional intrigue to earn the play’s description as being about “the abuse of power, political expediency, and the masks we wear to carry on as if everything is as it should be.” I think, acutely aware of my privilege as a white cisgender male, the key word here is abuse.
Reading Time: 3 minutesArmed revolution, ground-breaking art, youth culture, a huge push forward in the history of teenage rebellion, and the stodgy British class system might seem unlikely to fit together, but all that and more came out of Britain’s most elite, aristocratic schools.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDonnie Darko is an independent film that was the product of a first-time director, so it certainly wasn’t a blockbuster.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe asked volunteers what everyone should know about Islam, and why.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFriday’s Soul Expressions, an annual talent night organized by the Black Student Leaders Association, was not only about showcasing talent from the black community but also about looking to the future.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“I like that it’s a lot more than female impersonation now,” Queene said. “I think that if you have your heart committed to a song or a character it’s going to look good. You don’t need to do wig reveals or splits to get people going, you just need to have that energy and spark in you.”
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Because people always tend to look at STEM and arts as being very distinct and that makes things very stagnant — it doesn’t allow for innovation, it doesn’t allow people to think creatively.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis album is LOUD. Sleater-Kinney were always on the noisier side of indie rock (understandably, given the band’s punk background) but on The Woods, they really bring the noise.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity of Ottawa students filled the Sala San Marco Centre Conference Centre on Feb. 27 for a night showcasing cultural and artistic displays from the black community. This year’s theme, “Surviving Violence,” was punctuated by a keynote address by Keke Palmer on her experiences as a black woman.
Reading Time: 2 minutesKarolyne Pickett—actress, producer and University of Ottawa alumna—was there recently shooting her debut independent film Broken Waters/ Eaux Troublés. It tells the story of a young female psychiatrist in mid-1980s Ottawa, focusing on her struggle against the then-mainstream concept of chemical psychiatry with her own firm belief in humanistic psychotherapy.
