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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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Learning from hardship
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Thanksgiving weekend is typically a time when students go home to mooch free food off of lonely parents and to be thankful that they do not have to spend yet another weekend in their run-down, low-budget houses. However, for Laurier graduate Josh Martin, author of Simple(ton) Living, there is a lot more to be thankful…
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Seeking to thrill
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Despite the demands of touring and maintaining a sense of constant creativity, Toronto’s Dragonette has successfully kept the passion, positivity and energy that are instantly evident in their live performances. In support of their latest release and second full-length album, Fixin To Thrill, the band has launched a massive world-wide tour that brought them to…
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VIDEO – “Playing Piano” sculpture on display at WLU
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This sculpture created by artist Marla Hlady is piano that plays by itself through the help of motors and pneumatics. It is on display at the Robert Langen Art Gallery in Wilfrid Laurier University until Oct. 24.
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