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.
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.
