Category: Arts

In review: Summer releases

Together The New Pornographers Label: Matador Release Date: May 4 Listen to: “Your Hands (Together)”, “Daughters of Sorrow” 7/10 Together opens strong with “Moves”...

Live preview of Stars’ new album

As frontwoman Amy Millan pointed out, it takes a lot of trust for an audience to buy a ticket to see a band play songs that they’ve never heard before That’s exactly what...

In review: The Five Ghosts

Stars Label: Soft Revolution Release Date: June 22, 2010 Listen To: “Dead Hearts”, “Fixed”, “Changes” 85/10 Two years after the success of the Polaris Music Prize...

Turning the pages

Last Saturday, children’s and teen’s authors, illustrators and poets from across Canada came together at the Waterloo Regional Children’s Museum to explore new worlds, tell...

Sloan rocks Starlight

Sloan took to the stage at Starlight this past Tuesday as part of a small Ontario tour with Toronto band Modern Superstitions Modern Superstitions opened the show to a slightly...

A successful end to the semester

Laurier’s annual Year End Celebration took over campus last Saturday to celebrate the end of another school year True to WLU (We Line Up) tradition, students braved the enormous...

What not to miss this summer

Albums This spring and summer brings many highly-anticipated releases in music Toronto’s Broken Social Scene returns with its first album since 2005 with Forgiveness Rock...

Arts bites: March 31, 2010

Livin’ La Vida Gay In the most shocking coming-out-of-the-closet story since Clay Aiken, Latin music superstar Ricky Martin revealed that he is gay After dousing his hair...

Using business to pursue a passion

A masters of business administration (MBA) and a lifetime of art might not seem like the most natural combination However, for Jeffrey Melanson, completing his MBA was the most...