Reading Time: 2 minutesA Tribe Called Red aims to reclaim indigenous culture Photos courtesy of Tina Wallace IAN “DJ NDN” Campeau says he still gets nervous before every show. “Typically it goes away right as the music starts,” he says. Bear Witness, Dan “DJ Shub” General, and Campeau—the three members of A Tribe Called Red—headlined the Fall Festival …
Reading Time: 4 minutesFulcrum contributors’ picks for the Polaris Prize THE POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE is a $30,000 music award given to the best Canadian full-length album of the year. A jury of music journalists, broadcasters, and bloggers chooses the winning album based on its artistic merit, without regard to genre, sales, or professional affiliation. The Polaris Prize Gala …
Reading Time: 2 minutesCampus pub competition series returns for sophomore year Photo by Marc Jan CAMPUS PUB 1848 is holding a party competition: no gimmicks, no tricks—as plain and simple as that. Party-Off nights take place on Thursdays again this year and 1848 is giving $100 and a DJ to competing federated bodies, clubs, and other associations in …
Reading Time: 2 minutesHer style and sound may have recently graduated from electro-pop to acoustic, but that doesn’t mean Lights can’t teach post-secondary students how to have an electrifying frosh week.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLara Sabraoui has fully committed to the philosophy, “Think globally, act locally.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesVisual representations inspired by human rights violations and social justice issues can be arresting, compelling, and sometimes, disturbing. They can also begin conversations.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“MCMASTER UNIVERSITY BROUGHT the Arkells together,” Arkells’ lead singer Max Kerman told a crowd of anxious and excited white-shirted 101ers at Fedstock on Sept. 1.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThough the beginning of the show was promising and his insights on the corruption of a capitalist society rang true to me, as the show progressed, he dove further and further into a pool of cheap, predictable sex jokes.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the space between creating art and scientific invention lies an opportunity to control the world around you.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSince the release of their self-titled album in 2012, the band—made up of Erin Saoirse Adair and University of Ottawa students Angela Schleihauf and Amelia Leclair—have received media attention for their song “Apartheid.”
Reading Time: 2 minutesTHE ARKELLS ARE SET to headline this year’s Fedstock, one of the largest and loudest student-organized concerts each year. The event will take place Sept. 1 at Confederation Park and is open to all University of Ottawa students for $15 and included in the cost of all 101 Week kits. Patrick Marquis, vp social of …
Reading Time: 2 minutesONE OF OTTAWA’S most colourful parades took place on Aug. 25, wrapping up the weeklong Capital Pride Festival. For the first time in nearly a decade, the parade route stretched down Bank Street, through Ottawa’s gay village, and ended at Marion Dewar Plaza at City Hall.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteADULTHOOD IS FILLED with responsibilities: bills, deadlines, and worrying about long-term plans. But for one night a month, the Canadian Museum of Nature offers an opportunity to indulge your inner six-year-old with a drink in hand. On Aug. 18, the museum held their monthly Nature Nocturne event, this time with a Star Wars theme. Attendees …
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt might be new compared to similar festivals across Canada, but this year’s second annual National Capital Craft Beer Week was a resounding success
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis could be the breakout year for Ottawa-based band Go Long(!).
Reading Time: 2 minutesBut 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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile 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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesHowever, if you want to have the summer of your dreams, there are things you should start thinking about now.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’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.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Fulcrum asked a couple of our contributors to look back and tell us what they thought the top five albums of 2012 were.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBrad Sucks’ fusion of pop, electronic, and ’90s alt-rock is hard to compare to anything else.
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: 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.
