Arts
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Remembering Heroes
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On Sunday afternoon, a crowd of local residents and enjoyers of literature from across the country gathered at the Record’s headquarters in Kitchener for the launch of Amazing Airmen: Canadian Flyers in the Second World War, a book written by the paper’s editorial writer Ian Darling. The England-born journalist – who has also taught writing…
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Arts bites: Oct. 28, 2009
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Lily conquers addiction? Twitter queen and always-hot topic in gossip blogs Lily Allen has given up 140 character life updates. Signing off her last tweet with “I am a neo-luddite, goodbye,” on Sept. 28, Lily has now reportedly relinquished her BlackBerry and laptop at the request of her boyfriend. No word yet on which relationship…
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The true meaning of Halloween
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Oh, Halloween, how quickly you have returned to our lives. You bring with you the ever-pleasant prospect of free candy and the apparent idea that it’s alright for girls to walk around dressed as saloon hookers, just as long as they have some sort of animal-eared headband on. Yes, Halloween, you are a lot of…
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Film festival hits KW
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This year’s third annual Grand River Film Festival (GRFF) in Kitchener-Waterloo was an enriching cultural event that brought the community together to support contemporary filmmakers from Canada and the rest of the world. The film festival invited the public to encounter and engage with film of today and encouraged innovative film projects from regional, Canadian…
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Blue Man Group ends three-year tour in Kitchener
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Anyone even remotely familiar with performing art troup “Blue Man Group” knows that the experience is utterly incomparable, and their latest performance, at Kitchener Auditorium on Saturday – the last on their recent “Mega Star” tour – was no exception. The evening opened with a stellar warm-up act by performance painter David Garibaldi, whose painted…
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Afternoon of the living dead
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The sun was shining; it was a great day for the undead to walk the streets. We gathered outside of Waterloo Town Square LCBO. It was a pleasant surprise to see so many of my undead kin – more than 100 zombies showed up. Zombie Master Mike Greaves, owner of Waterloo’s independent video store Generation…
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Metric lights up Centre in the Square
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After a summer tour that included slots at England’s Glastonbury and Paris’ Rock en Seine festivals, Metric found a few minutes to begin the Canadian leg of their globe trotting tour in Kitchener last Thursday night, with Montreal indie-rockers The Stills as their opener. Kicking off the show with “Twilight Galaxy” to a visual background…
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Exposing injustice
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Independent film-making can be difficult in Canada; especially when major Canadian broadcasters deem your subject matter unprofitable. Such was Paul Manly’s situation when trying to pitch a feature length documentary exposing Canadian government and corporate involvement with the Interprovincial Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA) and the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America…
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Laying it bare
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Secrets: everybody has one. Embarrassing moments, habits, hopes, confessions, desires and dreams – keeping secrets is fairly synonymous with being human. Now imagine your greatest secrets anonymously posted for the whole world to see. Would you feel nervous? Relieved? Author Frank Warren believes that sharing these secrets in a secure environment connects us as a…
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The Dirty Nil take the year’s first Last Band Standing title
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Last Thursday night, Wilf’s was packed to the brim with aspiring musicians and dedicated music lovers for A-Team’s Last Band Standing (LBS). LBS is a four part series in which student musicians compete for $1000 and the distinction of being the “last band standing.” This year, Silence in Stereo, Mac Attack, The Dirty Nil and…
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