Karen Ostrander
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Connecting us and music
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The role of music in the community is one that the Laurier Centre for Music in the Community (LCMC) and the Wise Voices for Music project do not take lightly. On Feb. 1, hosted in the John Aird Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University, LCMC and the Wise Voices for Music hosted a music summit that…
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‘80s musical fails to rock
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On Monday evening, Kitchener’s Centre in the Square had a full house of people attending an unforgettable musical experience—Rock of Ages. Rock of Ages has become a musical sensation as it has done something completely groundbreaking in the world of musicals: it has turned ‘80s rock tunes into musical ballads. The crowd was made up…
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Arts Bites
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Tarantino: Over-reacting or justified? In the next amusing saga that is Quentin Tarantino’s life, Tarantino has decided to sue Gawker Media for the recent leakage of his upcoming film Hateful Eight. While Tarantino is justified for his anger over the script leaking, it seems like his anger is misdirected. Gawker did not originally leak the…
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From basketball to hip-hop
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When you think of Wilfrid Laurier University, a few things come to mind: the business program, athletics or even the tight-knit community feel. What may not come to mind is hip-hop music. Hip-hop music has become extremely popular these days with more and more people taking up rapping not only as a hobby, but as…
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A new type of sound
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More and more often in this day and age, films seem to be bringing in popular musicians to produce soundtracks in addition to more traditional composers. With popular and influential films of the 2000s like Shrek and Moulin Rouge using popular music in their own way, this millennium opened on a lyrical note. In 2013,…
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Dancing in a ‘Wonderland’
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Pearl in 2014, thus far, has offered a preview of some of electronic dance music’s next big stars; previously it was OVERWERK on January 18, and on Friday Jan. 24, it was Toronto duo Dzeko and Torres joined by Henry Fong for the second-annual Winter Wonderland at Pearl in Waterloo. 2013 saw Dzeko and Torres,…
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Drawing together: SketchCrawl in Waterloo
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Once a season, no matter what the weather, artists of all levels of talent across the globe come together to draw the spontaneous and unpredictable world around them. Created by Pixar storyboard artist and animation director Enrico Casarosa in 2004, SketchCrawl has grown immensely since its initial inception. In nearly 200 cities around the world,…
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And the Oscar goes to…
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Best Picture: Who was nominated: American Hustle Nebraska Captain Phillips Philomena Dallas Buyers Club 12 Years a Slave Gravity The Wolf of Wall Street Her Our version: American Hustle Inside Llewyn Davis Saving Mr. Banks Dallas Buyers Club 12 Years a Slave Gravity The Wolf of Wall Street Her Blue Jasmine 2013 was a great…
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Re-visiting an old tale
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If you forgot your towel to Thursday, Jan. 16’s staged reading of Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, don’t panic. The performance was the brainchild of a collaborative effort between the University of Waterloo’s Drama and Speech Communication program and local Lost and Found Theatre. “It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long…
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Sex exhibit at THEMUSEUM creates stir
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For some, talking about sex is an uncomfortable matter. Whether it is in a casual conversation with peers or having the ever-feared ‘talk’ with parents, the topic of sex can be downright awkward to talk about. There are many ways to discuss getting down without talking dirty. With all the euphemisms for sex, it’s easy…
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