the arts
Tuesday, 19 March 2013 04:19
Canadian Music Fest staff picks
A brief guide to the festival
Monday, 18 March 2013 13:25
Catwalk on campus
. . . too sexy for Milan, New York and Japan. Student fashion group UFashion brought model competition, fashion show and style to Hart House.
Friday, 15 March 2013 01:39
You don’t know Jack
When I heard that the CBC was making a biopic on Jack Layton, I was critical at first. Being a Liberal from Toronto-Danforth (the riding Layton represented in Parliament), I didn’t care for his politics and struggled to understand why people idolized him. Firstly, there’s no doubt he did wonderful things for the NDP. He…
Friday, 15 March 2013 01:33
Vic College presents musical take on The Odyssey
The Victoria College Drama Society concluded its run of The Odyssey, its most successful show in years, on Saturday, March 9. The new production – the student-written rock opera adaptation of the Homer’s epic – drew in over 1000 people in a new attendance record. The sheer volume of attendees entailed that VCDS had to…
Friday, 15 March 2013 01:28
Costumes, comics and crazy fans
Toronto Comicon was a blur of costumes, comics, and crazy fans. Two days filled with panels and vendors selling their wares, this past weekend’s event was the humbler sibling to August’s behemoth Fan Expo. Both events are put on by Hobby Star Marketing, who pioneered the Canadian National Comic Book Expo in 1995, which was…
Friday, 08 March 2013 05:29
Hart House gets Bent
Bent is a 1979 play written by Martin Sherman, directed today at Hart House Theatre by Carter West. It tells of the tragic circumstances and persecution of several gay men during Nazi-era Germany. A Pulitzer-nominated play, it was highly controversial when it first came out, but also well received. While gay rights have changed considerably…
Friday, 08 March 2013 05:26
Patti Smith's Holy Relics
She was hailed the god-mother of punk-rock in the ‘70s, and her award-winning memoir Just Kids has become a bible for the present-day bohemian. Now, at 66, Patti Smith has re-established her image again. On Wednesday March 6, she held a press conference at the AGO addressing one of her lesser known creative outlets: photography.
Friday, 08 March 2013 05:23
U of T jumps on reality TV bandwagon
The University of Toronto has gained a reputation of being a purely academic institution, as any midnight visit to Robarts might reveal. In an attempt to demonstrate that the University of Toronto school is much more than just a “GPA killer,” University of Toronto Television (UTTV) created a reality television show Sudden Death Lockdown. In…
Friday, 08 March 2013 05:17
On The Act of Killing at activist film fest
“All I had to do was hang around outside his house, pretending to be filming the streets and of course, I was invited in for tea.” Linked in via Skype connection before the showing of his film The Act of Killing, director Joshua Oppenheimer explained how he was hospitably hosted in the home of a…
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