This could be the breakout year for Ottawa-based band Go Long(!).
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But even from the back of the crowd it would be hard to miss her; she’s wearing a gigantic red wig and a sparkly blue outfit that’s half-dress, half-cape, it sounds gaudy but Bjork’s presence makes it memorable. Every twitch, step and hand motion is like watching a conductor possessed by their craft, it’s trippy but every moment is under complete control.
While record stores have been closing down across the city for years—notable closures being Record Runner in 2006 and The Record Shaap last November—the stores that have managed to tough it out celebrate annually in the form of Record Store Day.
However, if you want to have the summer of your dreams, there are things you should start thinking about now.
I’d been looking forward to it, sure, but I forgot all about it until I got a surprise call from the local game store to inform me that my pre-ordered copy had come in. This is something that should have been great news, but instead it felt like a call from a girl I’d gone out with and never called back.
The Fulcrum asked a couple of our contributors to look back and tell us what they thought the top five albums of 2012 were.
In the hopes of recruiting more talent, the Salamander Theatre for Young Audiences is looking forward to auditioning actors and actresses from the University of Ottawa for their upcoming season.
Brad Sucks’ fusion of pop, electronic, and ’90s alt-rock is hard to compare to anything else.
This 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.
Harlan 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.
The pair spoke to the Fulcrum about their innovative art form and how students can follow their passions to create something new of their own.
Parmida 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.
The 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.”
The marriage of this trio (both literally and figuratively) has produced an intricately beautiful album.
On Sept. 7, Frank Warren sat down with the Fulcrum in his light purple dressing room beneath the Alumni Auditorium to talk about his well-known secret-sharing website, PostSecret.
At this year’s Ottawa Folk Festival, Vancouver’s bashful indie folk-rocker Dan Mangan headlined the full day of music Sept. 9, while Bon Iver, this year’s Grammy winner for best new artist, drew 12,000 fans to close the festival on Sept. 10.
Country music fans should mark their calendars for the sixth annual O-Town Hoedown, a country music festival showcasing local talent for two consecutive weekends, Sept. 28–29 and Oct. 5–6.
