Reading Time: 2 minutesToronto rapper Haviah Mighty took home the 2019 Polaris Prize on Monday for her album 13th Floor, released in May. On her album, Mighty encapsulates themes of love and relationships, while threading in details of American slavery.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA University of Ottawa student, inspired by her commute from the suburbs, wrote her complaints about OC Transpo’s service down as lyrics, set them to “Bodak Yellow,” and graced Ottawa with “Bodak Transpo.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesPlant’s new style of music is hard to pin down. The easiest descriptor is world music. For Led Zeppelin fans, it’s a totally different type of music, but it’s apparent the seeds of Plant’s new output were there back in his old days, too.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe National Arts Centre has started a historic new chapter with the inauguration of the first season of its Indigenous theatre department, something artistic director Kevin Loring is calling a “one-of-a-kind” institution.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCityFolk, if you look at its name, might not seem like the place to go wild on a Saturday night, but it was the hottest place to be in the city this weekend. Day 3 of the festival ranged from sultry soul to high-energy trap, proving that even a folk festival can be sexy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOur Lady Peace’s Summersault tour stopped in Ottawa this weekend for CityFolk Festival. The Canadian rockers are still going strong after more than 25 years of touring.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe first day of City Folk was heavy on rough-and-tumble outlaw country, harmonious folk, and edgy “hard roots” music. And the Strumbellas who, despite being headliners, were the odd ones out.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“I just focus. Do school, do music, do X, do Y, try to feed all my relationships, try to nurture everything and just stay motivated. I love doing it … just to rap and have people say ‘George, I appreciate what you’re saying in your music.’ ”
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe theme of April’s MFA exhibition is two-fold: she is interrogating the separation between the human world and the natural world while also analyzing how painting can interact with digital media.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 2019 uOShow, a hallmark of 101 Week, took place this past Thursday in University Square. Ottawa duo Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine headlined the concert, which ran from 8 to 11 p.m. Photographer Emilie Azevedo was there. Check out the gallery below for some of our favourite snaps of the night.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe gathering held over the weekend, held partly on campus, looked to highlight the guitar’s relationship to electronic music and the academic study of the instrument.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCirque du Soleil’s new take on its lauded show is powerful, emotional and will make you laugh.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSnoop Dogg, Wu-Tang Clan, Pussy Riot push through cancellations to light up the LeBreton Flats festival.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLeBreton Flats was full of nostalgia as Alexisonfire, The Offspring and T-Pain took the stage.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThursday saw Leikeli47, Murda Beatz and Shakey Graves persevere through stormy weather to shine on stage
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
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?
