Chris Donald
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Kitchener-Waterloo sets date for the first Mel Brown Music Festival
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The Kitchener-Waterloo region has announced the first Mel Brown Music Festival for next May. The event is in honor of musician Mel Brown, an influential blues artist. It is planned to feature Black artists in live performances across Kitchener-Waterloo. The festival will also include a conversation on systemic racism within the music programs of higher…
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Q’s Cakes and Cafe owner celebrates Food Network’s “The Big Bake: Halloween” win
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“That was definitely the biggest cake that we’ve ever made,” Raquel David said. “The finished cake itself was about 5.5 feet tall.” David is the winner of this year’s The Big Bake: Halloween competition, which aired on Food Network on Sept. 27. In the episode, teams of bakers made gigantic cakes that move for a…
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Some of the creepiest episodes of kid’s tv-shows
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I have an overabundance of nostalgia for the television shows I watched during my childhood. As someone who is now obsessed with horror movies and Halloween, looking back at the things I watched as a kid in the late 90s and early 2000s … well, let’s just say there might be a correlation as to…
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Three classic horror films that aren’t that scary
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Army of Darkness (1992) Directed by Sam Raimi Starring: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz As the third and final film of the original Evil Dead series, this final instalment does not disappoint. While Evil Dead 2 (1987) was known for being more humorous than its predecessor, Army of Darkness exceeds that, almost becoming more of a…
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“The Eyes of Tammy Faye” provides a crash course on making a likable protagonist
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Writing a feminist protagonist in a film feels like it should be easy on paper, but in reality, few pull off the feat seamlessly. For writers, there are two ways to approach this issue; the easy way and the hard way. The easy way to write a female heroine is to, simply put, write her…
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Dyke Bar Takeover aims to create more LGTBQ+ spaces in Kitchener-Waterloo
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“There’s not many places in Kitchener Waterloo where it’s like, this is our queer space. And this is where we go,” Jules Hall said. Hall is part of Dyke Bar Takeover Kitchener Waterloo; an organization which aims to create safe spaces and events for members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community. Kitchener Waterloo’s lack of…
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AEW is the next great wrestling empire
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When people think about professional wrestling (rarely as that may be) three letters usually come to mind: WWE. World Wrestling Entertainment has long been the only major wrestling promotion in North America — and largely the rest of the world. This has been the case for decades but recently, a rival promotion has risen that…
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“After We Fell”: Baby’s first “Fifty Shades of Grey”
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Directed by Castille Landon and released by Wattpad’s own production company along with CalMaple, After We Fell is the third installment in the After franchise. The film holds an ‘R’ rating and was released into Canadian theatres on Sept. 10. Josephine Langdon stars as Tessa Young, a sweet and emotionally fraught college student. Playing opposite…
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Weighing the value of music snobbery
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“That’s not real music.” We’ve all either heard that phrase from a music snob, or we’ve been the one saying it. With a liking for obscure music over what’s on the radio, music snobs are people who consider themselves better than listeners of trending songs. They’re usually dismissive of current mainstream music, which they believe…
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Remembering Norm Macdonald
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It came as a shock on Sept. 14 when the world learned of the untimely passing of Norm Macdonald. He was 61 when he succumbed to the leukemia he had been fighting in secret for nine years. Norm was always a polarizing comedian — you either loved his comedic stylings or hated them. In perhaps…
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