Reading Time: < 1 minuteClear your throat, look them dead in the eye, and say, “Excuse me, some of us have places to be.” Now it’s awkward for everyone, not just you.
Arts & Culture
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The greatest musical decade ever,” claims one attendee when referring to the 1970’s era of rock, during Ottawa’s CityFolk final festival night. This past Sunday, I was most fortunate to attend my first concert featuring some of the founding members of punk rock.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAmong the hustle and bustle of the Ottawa CityFolk Festival last week, the Busker Series brought the real essence of street performances to the forefront: fully acoustic and fully real.
Reading Time: 4 minutesMembers include Max Trepanier (lead singer), Jack Gunn (bassist), Christian Lascelles (drummer), Aidan Morris (guitarist), Phil Hulan (guitarist), and Phil’s yellow socks (socks).
Reading Time: 3 minutesRest assured, price and distance did not deter many. Students showed up for CityFolk as they always have, including on my bus which resembled a mosh pit more than an easy-listening lounge. I did have the pleasure of being able to eavesdrop on a heated conversation about “challenging your sensei.”
Reading Time: 3 minutes“You could see one of these shows at the NAC, and you could see one at Chamberfest, and you could see another one at Pride, but it’s all happening at Pique,” says director Rachel Weldon.
Reading Time: 3 minutesQueue up Nicolas Pellerin & Les Grands Hurleurs at your next family gathering and I guarantee you’ll catch your aunties getting down.
Reading Time: 4 minutesDear Di, over the summer my entire life seemed to go wrong. My friend group split up, I got phished by an email scam, and I think I don’t like the program I’m in now. Is university life supposed to feel like I was thrown off a cliff and expected to fly, or go SPLAT!!?
Reading Time: 2 minutesRather than distancing herself from the meme, Larsson embraced the renewed interest, allowing the moment to exist without over-explaining it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile his lyricism is powerful, it doesn’t take centre stage in Revelation. His use of interplaying piano, guitar, strings and drums is a hypnotic journey which showcases the full breadth of Vollebeck’s multi-instrumentalist talent.
Reading Time: 3 minutesRhiannon has taken almost every single infamous University of Ottawa elective course an undergraduate student can enroll in. She thinks its something every student should try.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Voice of Hind Rajab provides the public with a false sense of understanding about Palestinians and their suffering, allowing them to remain comfortable in their sympathy, and effectively demobilizing them from taking any real action or stance towards the dismantling of Israel’s actions.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat a treat it is to the ears hearing Bruno Mars pour his soul into his new album.
Reading Time: 7 minutesThere’s flagrant preferential treatment going on – someone needs to be fired.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor fans of the Mean Girls story, musical, or the original movie, the law students’ production will feel familiar, with some funny Canadiana changes that elicited a handful of laughs.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere definitely was another choice, and it wasn’t murder. But who am I to say anything?
Reading Time: 3 minutesInstitutions such as these continue to uphold harmful systems, while simultaneously clinging onto a facade of diversity and social progress.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo crack something is to break it open, to claim what is inside, and to permanently destroy the shell which the object of your desire was contained in. Sorry, body, not shell. Hold on, are we talking about sex or making breakfast?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Winterlude 2026 is packed with something for anyone who’s trying to beat cabin fever. Grab your friends, and don’t miss out on the winter fun!
Reading Time: 3 minutesCompared to the $6,000 budget of UOTCs first play The Great Gatsby, Carrie: The Musical’s $25,000~ budget is a testament to the club’s quick establishment as a campus institution.
Reading Time: 3 minutesNow 40 years old, one might wonder why this film has met continued success.
Reading Time: 5 minutesCHROMAQUEER OFFERS A RETROSPECTIVE ON THE STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS OF QUEER COMMUNITY, BLENDING HISTORICAL INSIGHT WITH CONTEMPORARY ACTIVISM The new Ottawa based film festival, ChromaQueer, premiered at the Arts Court in Byward Market. The weekend long film festival featured over 25 events in its program, with film screenings, poetry readings and live theatrical performances to …
Reading Time: 3 minutesMarty Supreme is a movie that takes you spinning through Marty’s eventful life, and keeps you wondering what could possibly happen next?
Reading Time: 3 minutesThese products that promote a fictional account of political action and change sell a cheap satisfaction that is quickly digested by online discourse, shortly before another Hollywood executive greenlights a sequel.
Reading Time: 4 minutesJoking that this would never slide with today’s HR departments, Peter Mansbridge took the audience back a couple of decades to a time when charisma— not a packed resume or exhaustive list of degrees— set off his career at the CBC.
