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Fresh start
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Students and residents who frequent the corner of King Street and University Avenue, will be pleased to hear that in the first half of 2012, that hole beside Starbucks will finally be filled and in its place a new commercial building will be erected. Election and Park Real Estate Capital Inc Property and Management Services…
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‘Getting Grounded’
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Last Thursday night, Starlight Lounge in Uptown Waterloo hosted ‘Get Grounded’, a charitable musical event featuring performances by Amanda Kaye, Rob Szabo, Lyndon John X and Jason Moir. All proceeds went towards the Grand River branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association. Get Grounded saw its inception a couple years ago and was inspired by…
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Poutine enterprise
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Ryan Smolkin was meant to be in business the minute he graduated Wilfrid Laurier University. Although his first step into the business world was as a landlord, his true calling lay in a profession with a much richer flavour. His creation of Smoke’s Poutinerie, an 80s style Canadiana fast food chain has spread like wildfire…
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Plugging into the future
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BlackBerrys, MyLearningSpace and OpenText are not the only technological advances to be seen improving Waterloo. Visitors and residents of the area may have noticed charging stations for electric vehicles at either Conestoga Mall or at Schlueter Chevrolet on Weber Street. In a rapidly developing technological community such as this, these charging stations seem like a…
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Group therapy
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Tony McGuinness and Jono Grant of the superstar DJ group Above & Beyond spun a powerful and engaging set to a sold out crowd at Beta Nightclub on Sunday, Jan. 29. The UK-based duo are the founders of the Anjunabeats music label and the creative minds behind Above & Beyond, alongside the Finnish-born Paavo Siljamäki,…
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Waterloo residents take the plunge
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Minus-four and snowing; not exactly ideal conditions for a swim. But on Saturday morning, about 20 participants braved the cold and hopped into a pool at the Waterloo Public Square as part of the first K-W Polar Plunge. The event raised approximately $1,000 for Waterloo’s Kidsability Centre for Child Development. Saturday’s Polar Plunge was organized…
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Life after Harry Potter
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On Thursday, Jan. 19, an email was sent out to the English and film students at Laurier, announcing a competition to be held by Alliance Films — the winner of which would be given the chance to interview Daniel Radcliffe at the Toronto premiere of his first post-Potter film, The Woman in Black. Being one…
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Young Empires to release debut
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“We had enough songs to make a full length record, but we wanted to release an EP first, to introduce the band,” explained Jake Palahnuk. Palahnuk, Toronto based musician and one third of indie-up-and-comers Young Empires, caught up with The Cord prior to the band’s Jan. 25 show at Starlight Lounge, to talk about the…
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With both fear and intrepid enthusiasm
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Ann Roberts, a slight, tentative woman, addressed numerous fans at the Knox Presbyterian Church on Sunday afternoon, to launch the show Ann Roberts…. With both fear and intrepid enthusiasm at the Waterloo Clay and Glass gallery. Roberts is an accomplished ceramics artist, who has twice been nominated for the Governor General’s award. Robert’s work has…
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Fr!nge: ‘The outskirts of the mainstream’
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Festival performances: In review Property Stars Canada Written & Directed by: Keegan Chambers Written and directed by Keegan Chambers, Property Stars Canada was a look at a day in the life of a door-to-door salesman pedalling driveway repairs. Chambers, who also starred in the play, delivered a solid performance while directing quips at the invisible…
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