arts
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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