Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE ARKELLS ARE SET to headline this year’s Fedstock, one of the largest and loudest student-organized concerts each year. The event will take place Sept. 1 at Confederation Park and is open to all University of Ottawa students for $15 and included in the cost of all 101 Week kits. Patrick Marquis, vp social of …
Reading Time: 2 minutesONE OF OTTAWA’S most colourful parades took place on Aug. 25, wrapping up the weeklong Capital Pride Festival. For the first time in nearly a decade, the parade route stretched down Bank Street, through Ottawa’s gay village, and ended at Marion Dewar Plaza at City Hall.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteADULTHOOD IS FILLED with responsibilities: bills, deadlines, and worrying about long-term plans. But for one night a month, the Canadian Museum of Nature offers an opportunity to indulge your inner six-year-old with a drink in hand. On Aug. 18, the museum held their monthly Nature Nocturne event, this time with a Star Wars theme. Attendees …
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt might be new compared to similar festivals across Canada, but this year’s second annual National Capital Craft Beer Week was a resounding success
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFans wait over nine hours for Osheaga Festival Max Szyc | Fulcrum Contributor Photo by Charleena Fan MONTREAL’S ANNUAL OSHEAGA festival typically attracts festival-goers of all ages thanks to its eclectic lineups. This summer was no exception, as ‘80s electro-pop veterans New Order played back-to-back with modern folk-rock sensations Mumford and Sons at the festival’s …
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis could be the breakout year for Ottawa-based band Go Long(!).
Reading Time: 2 minutesCafé Nostalgica reopened its doors Aug. 17, and even in its newness it was strangely familiar.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt started with a simple idea: to make good beer.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThousands of intimidating metal and punk fans completely overtook the quaint town of Montebello, Quw. this June.
Reading Time: 2 minutesU of O alumnus publishes ebook Run Charlie Run Emily Aube | Fulcrum Contributor Photo courtesy of John Wiber CHARLIE SEEMS TO be running from adulthood. He’s a 23-year-old University of Ottawa student who doesn’t quite know who he is, and struggles with first love, heartbreak, and the darker side of Ottawa. He’s also the …
Reading Time: 2 minutesForget cafeteria foods, forget brown bagging it, and forget working through lunch.
Reading Time: 2 minutesInstead of people playing Frisbee, running, or walking dogs, you’ll see a different cast of characters at Strathcona Park this summer.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFive albums to groove, chill, and definitely not study to this summer Max Szyc | Fulcrum Contributor The Knife Shaking the Habitual | Mute Records Sweden’s The Knife joins a wave of artists like David Bowie and Daft Punk who made long-awaited returns in 2013 after lengthy periods of (mostly) silence. While it was …
Reading Time: 2 minutesLiving up to their slogan, “WE ARE FUN.”, the band never stopped giving it throughout the show, ending with an encore that continued even as a large part of the crowd started wandering out of the festival and towards home. Fun., visibly drenched in sweat, jammed well past 11 p.m., disregarding the city’s noise by-law and focusing solely on their audience.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf I had to guess, playing a show between Wu-Tang Clan and fun. on a rainy Sunday evening was probably never an item on Tegan and Sara’s bucket list.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBut even from the back of the crowd it would be hard to miss her; she’s wearing a gigantic red wig and a sparkly blue outfit that’s half-dress, half-cape, it sounds gaudy but Bjork’s presence makes it memorable. Every twitch, step and hand motion is like watching a conductor possessed by their craft, it’s trippy but every moment is under complete control.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile record stores have been closing down across the city for years—notable closures being Record Runner in 2006 and The Record Shaap last November—the stores that have managed to tough it out celebrate annually in the form of Record Store Day.
Reading Time: 2 minutesYouTube the Musical, performed at Alumni Auditorium on April 6 and 7, tells the story of four people who get sucked into YouTube after excessive surfing on the site.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat can you do with all those books you’ve collected over your years of school? Here’s what you can do.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteStar Wars enthusiasts at the U of O drew their weapon of choice for a lightsaber battle of epic proportions on Morisset terrace April 4.
Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents at the University of Ottawa have found a new way to flirt with each other: through “Spotted at uOttawa,” a Facebook page that allows users to anonymously post missed connections that occur on campus.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe controversial performance by Rick Ross set to take place this week at the Ernst & Young Centre was cancelled after protests from students and other concerned citizens.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCheers from the 2012-13 Fulcrum staff! Look out next year for more style and swagger from your fellow students.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFulcrum critics take on a comic book and a graphic novel for those who know there’s no shame in reading books with pictures.
Reading Time: 3 minutesRick Ross’s upcoming concert in Ottawa has been met with criticism by the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) and Carleton University students.
