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.
Arts & Culture
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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesParmida 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 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.”
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe marriage of this trio (both literally and figuratively) has produced an intricately beautiful album.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn 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.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAt 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCountry 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.
