Category: Arts & Culture
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Around the world in two days for ten bucks
This past weekend marked the 41st annual Brantford International Villages Festival. 15 villages were scattered across Brantford, enticing people with their exotic dances, traditional dress, and mouthwatering delicacies. Among the most popular…
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Got a spare Friday night? Go check out the ROM
Friday nights through the end of June are exceedingly live at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Friday Night Live, the name of the event that is running until the end of…
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Summer television guide
It’s that time of year again. The days are getting shorter, the weather is getting warmer, and there’s nothing at all to watch on TV. With Game of Throne’s amazing fourth season…
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Summer blockbusters yet to come
With the summer movie season almost half completed, we turn our attention to July and August, where there are many more films that we just cannot wait to see. However, the big…
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The 2014 summer blockbusters: A first-half review
The summer movie season is upon us, with many of the most-anticipated ones already released. This summer, Hollywood stuck with the trend of the last couple years in making comic or superhero…
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Stars without makeup and the explosion of selifes au naturel
We’ve all seen the magazine covers, announcing something that is apparently meant to be shocking: “STARS – WITHOUT MAKEUP!” I guess because some people are used to seeing celebrities on the red…
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Canadian Spotlight: Sons of Revelry
Sons of Revelry is an infant band in the music industry, but in the past 10 months as a group, they have been making waves in the North American music scene. The…
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Cultivating local music, Brown Dog style
The first rain of spring was spitting on the sidewalk and my hair as I entered Brown Dog Bootleg Café last Wednesday night. As I walked in the door I couldn’t help…
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Ruining an art form: Using classical music to keep people away
As local citizens walk down Colborne Street, they are able to listen to classical music as they pass by the Brantford Public Library. The music is very enjoyable for some people walking…
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The Canadian Spotlight: Chatting with Craig Cardiff
Craig Cardiff is a Canadian folk musician, who is celebrated from coast to coast. Cardiff’s smooth vocals and acoustic guitar landed him two nominations in 2012, for a Juno and Canadian Folk…
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Addicted to the ink
Can you become addicted to tattoos? The word addiction is often tossed around when talking about tattoos. There are several physiological and psychological reasons why people believe it is possible to become…
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The 27 Club: Stars who have left us too soon
Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain. Besides each of these people being popular musicians, they have another similarity that is both eerie and not immediately obvious: all of them…
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Suffering from the Flappy Bird flu
You slowly sink your teeth into your bottom lip, the quickening pace of your index finger violently tapping the screen cramps your hand, and your elevated heart rate is causing small beads…
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Canadian Spotlight: USS
What do you get when you mix quirky introvert Ashley “Ash Boo-Shultz” Buccholz with over-the-top extrovert Jason “Human Kebab” Parsons? Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker, also lovingly known as USS. USS have been riding…
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Coming out: Ellen Page
I freakin’ love the movie Juno, I wish there was a classier way to express my particular sentiments for the film, but that exact word “freakin’” sums it up perfectly. Canadian born…
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All aboard the Hamilton ARTBus
The Hamilton ARTbus is one bus you will not want to miss! Throughout the past 7 years it has become one of Hamilton’s visual art scene icons. The Hamilton ARTbus continues to…
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Alone on Valentine’s Day
Last Valentine’s Day was incredible. I was in my car and the cool February air made the windows fog up faster than I had anticipated. I had managed to fog up…
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A recap of the Super Bowl commercials
There are three types of people who watch the Super Bowl. First, we have the die-hard fans that love any excuse to yell at the television, then we have the bandwagon jumpers…
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Valentine’s Day: out of control spending
Valentine’s Day is commonly known as the day when people express their love for one another by sending cards and exchanging gifts, mostly chocolates, roses and even dinners by candlelight. When dining…
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Canadian Spotlight: July Talk
Last week I got the pleasure of speaking with Leah Fay of Toronto’s most dynamic indie rock band, July Talk. July Talk debuted with their self-titled album after only doing less than…
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Raising money for mental health a success for Bell “Let’s Talk”
For the fourth year in a row, Canadians were more than willing to talk. Bell’s “Let’s Talk” campaign, a mental health initiative aimed at ending the stigma associated with the illness, raised…
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Juno nominees announced last week
It is that time of year again, when Canada celebrates the creativity and successes of Canadian musicians. The 2014 Juno Nominations were announced by The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences…
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The heart of Canadian culture
Have you ever studied Aboriginal artwork? If you haven’t, you are missing out on a large part of Canadian culture. The Aboriginal settlers as you may know were the first people to…
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Hidden treasure: The Arts Block
I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, perhaps something that embodied the stock images in my head, the ones I’d retained from the pages of glossy art magazines. On a frigid Tuesday…
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Bieber’s not a baby anymore; actions a far cry of adulthood
Justin Bieber is certainty not a “baby baby baby” anymore. His innocent grin, sideswiped bangs and playful lyrics seem to have permanently disappeared, vanishing perhaps as quickly as his rise to super-stardom.…
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Changing the rap game
One could effortlessly deduce that mainstream rap has undergone a major transformation in recent years. To say the least, we’ve come a long way since “rack city chick rack rack city chick”…
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Is reality TV realistic?
Reality TV fans often find themselves questioning whether or not the events taking place on their favourite reality TV show is reality or staged. Reality TV shows often captures our attention because…
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The world of paparazzi: High prices and no privacy
Click, click, click. Many of us experience the sound of a camera at family gatherings, before a night out or when we see that perfect “Kodak moment”. Celebrities, on the other hand,…
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The Calendar Girls are coming to Brantford
Everyone has seen, or at least heard of, the resourcefully raunchy group of women from the United Kingdom who created a calendar full of domestic nudies for charity. Calendar Girls is a…
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Canadian Spotlight: Armand
Armand is a Toronto-based singer/songwriter who has been pouring his heart and soul into his music since he was just a high school sophomore. He has an unrequited love for all performance…
