Reading Time: 3 minutesA visual arts student from the U of O competed at this year’s Global Game Jam annual 48-hour gaming challenge.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThis week’s reviews include new albums from Canadian indie rockers Ra Ra Riot and Tegan and Sara
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe U of O has a team of eight students working with Leave the Pack Behind to promote awareness of the services they offer to support faculty, staff, and students who want to quit smoking.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom Feb. 1–22, a large poster exhibition illustrating priceless Polish artifacts will be on display on the first floor of the University of Ottawa’s Desmarais building.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE OTTAWA JAZZ Festival is stepping out into winter and will set foot on campus for a show at the Academic Hall on Feb. 2.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPop Drone will host a brand-new series of concerts that will kick off Feb. 1 at Café Alt and run throughout the semester.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFulcrum music critic Max Szyc reviews new releases from Ochre and The Joy Formidable.
Reading Time: 3 minutesEven 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.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Fulcrum asked a couple of our contributors to look back and tell us what they thought the top five albums of 2012 were.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThroughout January, volunteers and employees at the Health Promotion division of the University of Ottawa’s Health Services have been offering free fair-trade hot chocolate at various locations on campus.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSparks 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.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe camera’s on you! We’ve turned the lens on students to take a look at who’s wearing what on campus.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis week’s reviews include the much-anticipated sophomore effort from A$AP Rocky and the controversial 9/11 film Zero Dark Thirty.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOttawa filmmaker John Graham will premiere his latest short film Sincerus—produced with the help of U of O students—at the Arts Court theatre on Jan. 18.
Reading Time: 4 minutesCheck out film reviews for Django Unchained and Hyde Park on Hudson along with music reviews of Why? and Scott Walker.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe camera’s on you! We’ve turned the lens on students to take a look at who’s wearing what on campus.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Mayfair Theatre managed to raise enough money in 2012 to afford a digital cinema package and stay in business in the evolving film industry.
Reading Time: 4 minutesHolly and Pete Massie are founding members of the Stairwell Carollers, an a cappella choir based in Ottawa that was formed in Marchand Residence way back in 1977. As Holly puts it, the choir wouldn’t have existed had it not been for the University of Ottawa.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Undergraduate English Students’ Association (UESA) has kept afloat its ongoing blUe mOndays series of literary and poetry readings despite a somewhat troublesome transitional period for the organization.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis week’s music reviews include Soundgarden, deadmau5, the Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra, and Ke$ha.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Sparks Street Mall, SAFA, and VASA have put out a call to student artists to have their creations showcased downtown along Sparks Street.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis week, Fulcrum reviews give praise to Clous Atlas and Anna Karenina—and quite the opposite to the Twilight finale.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVictoria, B.C.-based band Current Swell rocked the Jock-Turcot University Centre (UCU) with a surprise performance Nov. 23.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLocal student-owned vinyl outlet The Record Shaap closed its doors for good on Nov. 25, not much more than two years after it opened in July 2010.
