Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents who stopped by Café Alt for a quick cup of coffee or a comfortable place to study on Oct. 31 were surprised to find Juno-nominated folk artist Craig Cardiff performing live.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Student Federation of the University of Ottawa hosted a charity shave-off event Nov. 1 to prepare Movember participants to grow their moustaches in support of men’s health issues.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa’s drama guild performed Erin Shields’ Governor General’s Award-winning play “If We Were Birds” from Oct. 30 to Nov. 3 at Academic Hall.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBrad Sucks’ fusion of pop, electronic, and ’90s alt-rock is hard to compare to anything else.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite poor weather conditions, the fifth annual Ottawa Zombie Walk went off without a hitch as more than 2,000 dedicated participants took to the downtown streets on Oct. 27.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe uOttawa Poetry Slam Club hosts monthly bilingual open mic nights that encourage poets new and old to come out and share their poetry in a comfortable and accessible environment.
Reading Time: 3 minutesStudents and pug lovers gathered at Morisset Terrace on Oct. 17 to participate in Hugs for Pugs, a charity event hosted by the University of Ottawa’s Lambda Theta chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity.
Reading Time: 4 minutesHoly hit films! Check out this week’s rave reviews of The Master and Seven Psychopaths.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis week’s film reviews are The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Celeste and Jesse Forever.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa hosted a variety of literary stars and international scholars at this year’s Children’s Literature Conference from Oct. 12–13.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis year, the university’s writer-in-residence is André Alexis, a short-story writer, playwright, and novelist originally from Port of Spain in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity of Ottawa physics PhD student Christopher Smeenk demonstrated his pet project, the Laser Musicbox, at the 2012 Electric Fields festival on Oct. 12.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa chapter of Building Walls of Wisdom (BuildWoW) competed in Smoke’s Poutinerie’s campus edition of the world poutine-eating competition Oct. 13. The reward is a $2,500 sponsorship from the poutine restaurant that the chapter would donate to help fund the building of a school in Nicaragua.
Reading Time: 4 minutesHarlan Cohen, author of the bestselling book The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College, took a few minutes before his guest lecture at the University of Ottawa’s Alumni Auditorium to talk about what makes the university and college experience different from any other.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe pair spoke to the Fulcrum about their innovative art form and how students can follow their passions to create something new of their own.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLocal comics talk about the launch of the All Things Comedy network and how the do-it-yourself distribution method is reshaping the comedy business.
Reading Time: 3 minutesParmida Barez balances her life as a musician and an education student at the University of Ottawa and gears up to perform at PersiaPelooza in Los Angeles on Oct. 13.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe University of Ottawa’s seventh annual Walk of Arts competition on Oct. 4 drew in 32 students to show off their artistic talents.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe exhibit features the art of six Canadian artists and, according to the gallery’s website, “explores the notion of how an individual artist’s identity is defined by the geography and climate of the landscape.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Reviews Vault contains online exclusive reviews for albums and movies both new and old.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOttawa’s historical Bank Street has seen a little less advertising and a little more art this past month, with artistic photographs having been displayed in advertising kiosks along the historical streetscape.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis week’s reviews are House at the End of the Street, starring Jennifer Lawrence, and The Killers’ new album, Battle Born.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSince 1889, movies everywhere have been shot, distributed, and projected at 24 frames per second on 35-mm film, but come January 2013, all new projects will be shot digitally. By the end of this year, studios and distributors will no longer be producing or shipping film prints. This means that the Mayfair Theatre will have to drop $55,000 on a digital cinema package (DCP) to stay in business.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe marriage of this trio (both literally and figuratively) has produced an intricately beautiful album.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA crowd of supporters gathered at Café Dekcuf on Sept. 21 to “rock” for Steve Gerecke, a well-known local photographer who had his van, customized wheelchair, and most of his photography equipment stolen last month.
