Karen Ostrander
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Cord Arts presents: the best of 2013
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Top Ten Films 1. 12 Years a Slave After winning the People’s Choice Award at TIFF, Steve McQueen’s latest film has garnered nothing but praise for its portrait of savagery in the midst of the American slave trade. Although brutal, the film features a powerhouse performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role as Solomon…
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Chilling with Canning
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Blowing through Waterloo Region for the first time as a solo artist, Brendan Canning from Canadian indie music collective, Broken Social Scene, asked visitors of Starlight Social Club to take a minute to relax and chill last week. Why? Because, you ‘gots’ to. Released in early October, Canning’s second solo release, You Gots 2 Chill,…
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WLU Junk-Line reworks drums
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A drumline, a section of percussion instruments typically played as a marching ensemble, is something that people associate with high school football games. During the half-time show, a group of organized drummers march around the field while the audience cheers on. Even though Wilfrid Laurier University doesn’t have an official drumline, we have something even…
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‘Stache Bash: local music and moustaches
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There is no better way to celebrate Movember than with a moustache contest and some great bands. Radio Laurier’s Movember-themed event, ‘Stache Bash, was held at Maxwell’s Music House on Thursday November 21. Radio Laurier brought in local band The Bends, Toronto’s Poor Young Things and Radio Laurier volunteer Isi Ingles to provide the entertainment for…
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Laurier’s Rainbow Centre puts on open mic in support of Trans* Awareness Week
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Little Bean Café, located in downtown Kitchener, was the home to the Wilfrid Laurier University’s Rainbow Centre’s Rainbow Voices Open Mic Night on November 14. Rainbow Voices was one of the first major events put on by the recently created Rainbow Centre Outreach team. “The goal of the event was to bring the LGBTQ community…
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WLU Jazz impresses all
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Though Sundays are considered lazy days, audience members in the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall on Sunday November 17 found themselves energized with the upbeat jazz stylings of the Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) Jazz Ensemble. This marked the Ensemble’s first concert for the 2013-2014 school year and was conducted by Ron Schirm. The Jazz Ensemble consists…
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A legacy for the ages
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If you’ve ever been walking through the concourse late at night or even through the science building on a weekend afternoon, you have probably seen a group of hardworking individuals relentlessly working on a hip-hop dance routine. They are usually breaking, popping and locking over and over again in attempts to make their group choreography…
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The rise of animated feature film
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The Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema (WFAC) has no problem sharing that fact with the public that animated feature films are not just for children. From November 15-17, WFAC took over Chrysalids Theatre in downtown Kitchener to screen over ten films ranging from anime to documentaries on animation. “I outgrew what was originally a project…
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Dreams and fantasies at a modern-day opera
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Attending an opera performance on a Friday or Saturday night might sounds like a bore, rather than entertainment, however Opera Laurier defied traditional stereotypes concerning opera and delighted the audience on November 9 at the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall. “People have a lot of built-in assumptions about what opera is,” said Kimberly Barber, the coordinator…
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Unleash your ‘wild writer’
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Over the weekend of November 8-10, hundreds of writers got down and dirty at the Wild Writers Festival in Waterloo at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA). Hosted by local literary magazine The New Quarterly, Wordsworth Books and BSIA, the second annual Wild Writers aimed to bridge the gap and build connections between new…
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