Arts
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Festival sparks community’s interest
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The first annual Spark in the Park Music Festival was held this past Saturday, providing an active and engaging opportunity for young people in the community to come together. Held in Waterloo Park, the festival was an all day event showcasing Canadian musicians, while encouraging environmental stewardship, sustainability and social justice. Sponsored by radio station…
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Peter Katz plays Maxwell’s
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This past Wednesday, singer/songwriter Peter Katz visited Maxwell’s Music House where he captivated the audience with his intriguing lyrics, catchy guitar tunes and soaring vocals. “Waterloo has always been a very friendly place for me,” Katz stated as his reason for choosing Maxwell’s as the place to try out some new songs. Katz debuted a…
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Rediscovering the Titanic a century later
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On the evening of Sept. 23 The Museum, located on King Street in Kitchener, opened its new exhibit “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition”. As most are probably aware, perhaps in part because of James Cameron’s epic 1997 film Titanic, the RMS Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world. It launched April 10, 1912 from…
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Political films find home at Laurier
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This past Thursday, Laurier successfully held the first event of Cinema Politica — a media arts network dedicated to the screening of independent films with a political component. Derek Hall and Dr. Tanya Richardson, of the Laurier political science and anthropology departments respectively, are the Cinema Politica co-ordinators for the Kitchener-Waterloo area. The feature film…
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Weighing in on TIFF 2010
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Conviction Directed by: Tony Goldwyn Starring: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Juliette Lewis, Minnie Driver Considering the Oscar-buzz surrounding both the film and its cast, Tony Goldwyn’s Conviction was slated to be one of the highlights of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Unfortunately, having one of the most poorly conceived scripts of the last decade…
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Arts Bites: TIFF
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Joaquin Phoenix imposter causes a stir After the bizarre news broke that Joaquin Phoenix’s stint as a deranged man on the brink of complete madness was a complete hoax, another peculiar story has emerged. A few years on from the actor’s bewildering appearance on David Letterman’s The Late Show, a Phoenix imposter was brought to…
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New exhibit urges importance of heritage
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A new exhibition at the Robert Langen Gallery on campus examines Sandra Brewster’s take on an immigrant’s process of adaptation. Brewster is a Toronto-based multi-media artist and graduated from York University with a bachelor of fine arts. The Cord asked Brewster how she settled on this particular theme for an exhibit and she replied, “My…
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Darrin Rose talks to The Cord
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Comedian Darrin Rose stopped by Wilf’s last night (Sept. 21) to host Axe’s Tongue Twist Campus Challenge. Hired to host the gig, which has been travelling around to Canadian universities all month, Rose chatted with The Cord before he hit the stage to explain the competition. “It’s Chat Roulette. Three girls at home on their…
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2010 Polaris Music Prize awarded to Karkwa
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On Monday Night, the prestigious Polaris Music Prize held a gala in Toronto to announce the winner of the annual music prize. The award was granted to Francophone indie band Karkwa for their album Les Chemins de Verre. The winner of the $20,000 prize was voted on by a grand jury of various music journalists…
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25 Years of Princess
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Princess Cinemas celebrated its 25th anniversary on Saturday night with a screening of Casablanca and The Cord had the privilege of interviewing theatre owner John Tutt. “It was really great, you only do something like that once,” said Tutt in regards to the sold-out celebration. The screening of Michael Curtiz’s classic 1942 film was a…
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