Arts
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She who must not be named
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My first experience with Harry Potter was receiving a boxed set from my aunt for Christmas as a child. I went through all seven books in a matter of weeks, and became obsessed with hippogriffs, quidditch and portkeys. The appeal of the series for me was the themes of good overcoming evil and love conquering…
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Avenging the Avengers? Superheroes’ future remains unclear
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The end is nigh! Almost 20 years have passed since the original Iron Man film came out in 2008. Proving that, yes, superhero films can be taken seriously, and launching the genre into the public eye. In those 20 years a whole world has been pieced together, film by film and not just by Marvel,…
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Dylan Cease had a special moment at AGO
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As a starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays, baseball occupies a major part of Cease’s life. On a Major League mound, he is a pitcher competing against hitters. But on Aug. 25, 2026 Cease stepped away from his identity as a baseball player and met fans as Dylan Cease the artist, showcasing his own…
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Tony: A flawed but engrossing take on Anthony Bourdain’s life
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Coming hot off the heels of Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Director Matt Johnson returns with Tony, a flawed but engrossing film about an episode in the early life of late celebrity chef, Anthony Bourdain. Tony spins the earliest chapters of Bourdain’s debut and breakthrough novel, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,…
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The Guelph Little Theatre presented Agent Storm: Everything Under The Sun
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This August, The Guelph Little Theatre presented Agent Storm: Everything Under The Sun, an original comedy production satirizing the thrilling spy-fiction genre. Co-written by the talented Finnegan Manning and Finley Janleigh, Agent Storm: Everything Under the Sun is a love note to the iconic James Bond movie series. The show features many classic genre tropes, pulling them straight from the…
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The Adventures of Dunk and Egg
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In the wake of author George R.R. Martin’s growing frustrations with HBO’s House of the Dragon (an adaptation of his 2018 fictional historiography, Fire and Blood), his praise for HBO’s latest series came as a surprise. In a blog post, Martin described A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (AKOTSK) as “as faithful an adaptation as a reasonable man could hope for.” …
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Tri-Campus Battle of the Bands
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Music is the sound that binds the souls of millions. The Kitchener-Waterloo region is home to numerous communities centred solely around music and Laurier is no exception! On March 21, Radio Laurier, CFRU 93.3 FM and Jam Network came together to host the Battle of the Bands featuring six local acts. The event took place at Emmanuel United Church, transforming the traditionally quiet…
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery and the Globe
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What does it mean to see the entire world? What are the snowy mountains for us? What are the boundless plains, the thick forests, or the deep oceans? And what is the whirr of the plane’s engine, groaning underneath us? Can one see everything, yet see nothing? Does witnessing the richness of the world mean realizing your own loneliness? The globe in its endless expanses is nothing in the eyes of the pilot; the minute villages and fields before his eyes are quickly ignored. From heights up to 30,000 feet, the pilot glides over us all, yet cannot wave his gloved hand at us. With his home in the starry sky,…
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Fashion for Change Brings Literature to Life on the Runway
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On March 21, the University of Waterloo hosted its 14th annual Fashion for Change show at the Hagey Hall Theatre. Fashion for Change is a non-profit organization that brings together students from the University of Waterloo, Conestoga College and Wilfrid Laurier University to stage the largest student-run charity fashion show in the Kitchener-Waterloo region. Over the past 10…
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