Arts

Even though Zach Raynor has played for the Gee-Gees football team for the last four years of his life, he is now looking to pull off something that few of his friends or family expected: starting a career as the frontman in his own rock band.

The Fulcrum asked a couple of our contributors to look back and tell us what they thought the top five albums of 2012 were.

If you thought opera couldn’t be sexy, think again. The University of Ottawa Opera Company and its chamber orchestra performed a modernized version of Mozart’s Così fan tutte throughout January.

Sparks Street BIA executive director Les Gagne hopes to liven up the social potential of the pedestrian street and make it a more permanent tourist attraction by installing a 300-metre zip line.

This week’s reviews include the much-anticipated sophomore effort from A$AP Rocky and the controversial 9/11 film Zero Dark Thirty.

Holly and Pete Massie are founding members of the Stairwell Carollers, an a cappella choir based in Ottawa that was formed in Marchand Residence way back in 1977. As Holly puts it, the choir wouldn’t have existed had it not been for the University of Ottawa.

The Undergraduate English Students’ Association (UESA) has kept afloat its ongoing blUe mOndays series of literary and poetry readings despite a somewhat troublesome transitional period for the organization.

Jeremy Dias, a psychology and political science graduate from the University of Ottawa, discusses the nuts and bolts of his growing organization Jer’s Vision, and offers invaluable advice to help communities move forward with inclusivity and indiscrimination.

An exhibit titled A Child’s View from Gaza is currently on display at the University of Ottawa’s Café Alt and features artwork by child survivors of the 22-day assault on Gaza by the Israeli military in the winter of 2008-09.

New York City comedians Steve Hofstetter and Danny Jolles brought the laughs to Alumni Hall on Nov. 8 for a stand-up comedy show entitled “Comedy Without Apology.”

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