The lineup for Ottawa Bluesfest just dropped, and the diverse list of top performers set to head to LeBreton Flats this July offers a little something for almost every music fan and festival-goer in the city.
Arts & Culture
We decided to get nostalgic and dig through the archives in honour of our final print issue to present you with some of the classic hits from days of yore: Arts through the decades.
As in his past works of fiction, Midnight Sweatlodge (2012) and Legacy (2014), Rice uses a veil of storytelling to allow his readers to live through the difficulties, complications and celebrations of reserve life.
The name of the exhibition, Inter-NoUs, is a bilingual play on words that captures that relationship across different artistic practices and generations.
Prisoners pushes the boundaries of the thriller genre, posing the question: how far would you go to protect your child?
Campus radio station CHUO highlights musical talent around Ottawa. Take a listen.
The fact that Radisson is only briefly mentioned in the footnotes of others’ textbooks proves, once again, that the devil really is in the details.
A member of Greenland’s Inuit community, Vivi Sørensen said she was compelled to properly tell the stories of Indigenous Peoples. “My main reason for wanting to direct is the fact that our stories … are always told from outside. And I felt like there’s a misportrayal, there’s something that’s wrong.”
Despite the colourful cover art and poppy sound, the lyrics on Get to Heaven are extremely bleak. They’re filled with obtuse references to ISIS, mass shootings, political corruption, and general cynicism about the current state of affairs.
Balancing graduate school with music isn’t easy, but to Lu it’s essential.
