Arts
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East Meets West take home four first-place prizes
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For most of Laurier’s population, this past Monday had little significance. But for 200 students, the day marked their return to the university after achieving something unprecedented and remarkable. Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union campus club East Meets West competed this weekend in the national South Asian Alliance Culture Show (SAACS) at the Hershey Centre…
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Showcasing our nation’s talent
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With over 700 artists playing over the course of five nights, Toronto’s 2010 Canadian Music Festival must have been no small effort to organize, nor was it to report on. With that many artists, playing at clubs, taverns and concert halls scattered across downtown Toronto, attending enough shows to get a good representation of the…
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The Vagina Monologues hit Laurier’s stage
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From highlighting the uncomfortable after-effects of shaving to drawing attention to rape in Africa and naming your “coochie-snorcher”, the vagina was the subject of discourse last weekend in the Turret for Laurier’s annual Vagina Monologues. The incredible script – which Eve Ensler, an American playwright, performer and feminist, produced in 1996 after interviewing over 200…
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Fred Penner comes back
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REGINA (CUP) — Fred Penner is many things. He’s a children’s entertainer, a Canadian icon, a CBC television star and a part-time bar act. Wait, part-time bar act? Since when? It started a couple years back when Penner played a show at Gert’s Bar, a student pub at McGill University in Montreal. “I ended up…
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In review: Shutter Island
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Shutter Island Directed by: Martin Scorsese Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams Released: February 19, 2010 Rating: 3/4 If you like a good psychological thriller, then Scorsese’s fourth collaboration with Leonardo DiCaprio is worth a trip to the theatre to see. But be warned, it is not to be passively viewed. You’ll need your…
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Alice in Wonderland
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Alice in Wonderland Directed by: Tim Burton Starring: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway Release date: Mar. 5, 2010 Performances While the characterization of Alice by Mia Wasikowska was nothing groundbreaking, it was one of the most solid performances of the film, simply because Burton chose not to rely on one…
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Jay Malinowski speaks to The Cord about going solo
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For Bedouin Soundclash frontman Jay Malinowski, this past year has been one of many firsts. Malinowski not only completed his debut solo album Bright Lights and Bruises, but on March 3 he launched his first solo tour in Peterborough. Last night, Malinowski made a stop in Waterloo, performing to a crowd at the Starlight. Before…
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The Oscars fail to impress
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If you follow my column, you will recall my adoration of all things Oscar. Naturally then, this past weekend, I powered through the last few movies that I needed to see, composed all my “year end” and prediction lists, and sat down to watch the movie-lovers’ Super Bowl: the 82nd annual Academy Awards. Now, as…
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Anthropology students explore topics through theatre
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It is rare to see the Theatre Auditorium packed with students ready to watch a play written and performed by relatively inexperienced actors, and it is even more rare that the stage becomes a mechanism for academics generally allocated to the classroom. This past weekend, the Anthropology 101 class took the stage to present three…
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Arts bites: March 10, 2010
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Rapper Lil Wayne avoids prison … yet again Last week, rapper Lil Wayne, who had his sentencing for gun-possession charges delayed in February to have his diamond-encrusted teeth (and numerous cavities) repaired, had his hearing postponed yet again because the courthouse caught fire. Is it too much to assume that the self-proclaimed “greatest rapper alive”…
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