I’ve been at the Fulcrum for four years now, half of those as its editor-in-chief — it’s time for me to move on. However, before I do, I think it is worth reflecting on my five long years in student journalism. Apologies in advance, as this may get a little sappy.
As another academic term wraps up, so does another publishing year for the Fulcrum. For some of us on the paper’s 82nd editorial board, this is a ‘see you later’, but for others, it’s a long ‘thank you’.
From sleeping on the floor at his first NASH to EIC, it’s fair to say it’s been a wild ride for Charley at the Fulcrum.
It’ll be hard for Taylor Swift to top the masterpiece of Red (Taylor’s Version).
Listen up as we review a bunch of Oasis classics!
Theatre: this is an “until death do us part” situation, and I’m not going anywhere. I’m here for you through the rough patch.
The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) have identified all ten individuals shown in photos from the night of the Panda Game on Oct. 2. New photos have been released identifying more individuals of interest in the investigation.
It seldom happens that such a cast as Come From Away’s can be preserved digitally forever, eschewing the ephemeral and resting fossilized in the online ether.
Hungry? Here’s some spots to consider around the U of O to satisfy all types of cravings.
“They’ve known about the virtual format since we first registered for graduation months ago. There’s no reason they couldn’t have let us know sooner what was going on,” said Rachel Van Lanen, an imminent graduate of the U of O’s theatre program.
I couldn’t have asked for a better group of people to work with during the pandemic.
It is here I thank you for making my first job in arts journalism one I must so bittersweetly bid goodbye, at least for the year, at least for now.
Thirteen University of Ottawa Taylor Swift fans agreed to chat with me about our favourite storyteller, a feminist icon in the midst of recovering a career’s worth of work from infamous record label executive, Scooter Braun.
As the Fulc’s resident Swiftie, Aly Murphy paired up once more with the Fulc’s editor-in-chief Charley Dutil to take a blast to the past with this week’s selected hits.
The Last Blockbuster is a fun and easy watch, but the Netflix-shaped giant filtering each and every claim from the documentary’s subjects makes one question the film’s credibility: who else will streaming services squash in their journey to ubiquity?
Was your favourite song from 2020 Grammy-worthy.
To my year-ago self: I cannot possibly warn you of what’s to come. There’s a wild ride ahead. But you’re going to get through it.
“There’s no way for students to interact with any kind of facility in a face-to-face scenario. We as students have been educated in a system where you learn to be personable, where you learn how to interact in a public setting — how can you learn something like that through a screen?,” said fourth-year-student Elizabeth McDonald.
“We programmed this year’s undercurrents festival under a guise of uncertainty. In previous years, there were always wild cards — the Arts Court elevator, traffic around the theatre, the weather — this year it’s just a pandemic.”
Theatre without audiences, music without concerts, fine arts without galleries — these paradoxes represent the troubling reality for arts students of the early 2020s.
Weezer released new music — naturally, it’s our job to review it
Nostalgia is an okay way of coping with COVID-19, say psychologists.
Teaching a hands-on theatre course over Zoom can be quite the balancing act — literally.
One need look only as far as Ottawa’s own National Arts Centre to see that art isn’t dying during these disquieting times; in its own, exciting ways, it’s even thriving, shape-shifting to fit the needs of a socially distant world.
“Buying guitar strings is an expression of love for humanity,” says Pegg of the music he makes promoting truth over denialism.
