After four years heading up local concert booking company Rock Crew Productions, Chris Morris retires from the rock and roll lifestyle for real estate.

Terry Zwigoff’s Art School Confidential is “dragged down by a pair of conventional and predictable subplots that never quite fit,” says Phil Brown.

Almost every rock show I’ve attended in Kingston has been cut from the same cloth: a couple openers of variable quality, and a tightly-packed, sweaty audience. The crowds are usually a patchwork: true believers yelling every lyric, slightly bemused friends along for the ride, disinterested conversationalists looking to pick up and all-too-enthusiastic dancers …

Opening this week at the Wellington Street Theatre, The Gospel According to Saint Mark is not a wittily titled story about the life and opinions of a guy named Mark. At least, not really. It’s the Bible. Yes, really. The Gospel According to Saint Mark is just that, the gospel, performed as a one-man tour de force by local actor Matthew Gibson. And it’s good.

As I glanced at the cover of Vol. 4, I knew I was going to enjoy writing this review. Not that I judge a book by its cover, but sometimes you just know. The cover art, an inkjet print by Chin-Chien titled “Lumina souvenir,” is a stark image of an older-middle-aged woman in a white ribbed sweater, holding a Christmas ornament in each hand. The contrast between the delicate features of the feminine ornaments and the vacant stare of the woman holding them is gripping. I couldn’t wait to see what was inside.

The surprisingly unapologetic mastermind behind Final Fantasy—the singing violinist’s beautiful solo project—responded to whether he’s worried about disappointing fans of his first solo record, Has A Good Home, with the upcoming release of his sophomore album. Pallett readily admits that the bizarrely titled He Poos Clouds—out on May 9—marks a significant departure from Final Fantasy’s debut.

This past weekend, a group of Queen’s drama students performed their production of Fen, in association with Knockabout Theatre Company and The Single Thread Theatre Company.
Fen, written by English playwright Caryl Churchill, is a story of a community of farmers and their complex relationships with each other, as well as the conflicts within themselves.

An excited buzz filled the air outside of Grant Hall this past weekend as people began to line up for this year’s thirteenth annual Vogue Charity Fashion Show. The show brought a full house, and some of those waiting in line were aptly wearing their most fashionable attire, while others seemed to have come straight from studying.

With the beautiful weather this past week, everyone’s catching spring fever. Students eagerly waiting for the temperature to get just warm enough are hastily exposing their sun-starved toes. Already I’ve seen several pairs of sandals strolling around campus. Thinking about investing in a new pair of spring shoes? Or maybe you’re in the market for a new bag? Of course you are—after all, you can never have too many!

The glitz, glamour and little gold man aren’t just for Hollywood celebrities anymore. Last Saturday, the Queen’s Oscars were held at Grant Hall to honour Queen’s students for their accomplishments in the realm of the arts. Organized and initiated this year by the Campus Activities Commission’s Arts Network, Queen’s Oscars aims to promote the arts on campus. All of the participating students were self-nominated.

In this year’s issue of the Undergraduate Review the editors in chief, Tom Carter and Meiqi Guo write: “The decision to offer a piece of writing or visual art for publication requires a certain amount of courage.” The masses of creativity, which grace the 72 glossy pages of the volume, are more than an act of courage—they represent a combination of time, effort and passion.

Left to his own devices, Adam Bell would only give you three reasons to attend The Radical Dudez farewell-to-Queen’s show at Clark Hall Pub on Wednesday: cake and party favours, a fun time full of “hijinks,” and the warm karmic glow of helping his band recover from the recent theft of cymbals worth $1,000. He wouldn’t try to convince you that the last of about 75 Dudez shows in Kingston is a momentous occasion. He wouldn’t say anything self-important about their contribution to the campus music scene. He wouldn’t claim that the Dudez were going to rock as they had never rocked before. He’s just going to offer you some cake.

This past Monday, Milton’s The Most Serene Republic and Fat Robot, winner of QEA’s battle of the bands, stormed the Alfie’s stage and made the last QEA show of the year a memorable one.

Accessories are forever changing, evolving and reinventing themselves. One week something is “so hot” and before you can say, “Check out my new ———-,” you’re out buying the next trendy item to complete your look.

“What is art?” is the question posed to audience members when they enter the Vogt Theatre in Carruthers Hall for Vogt Slot D. If one was to judge by the plays that followed, art is funny, sad, absurd, sexy, violent, nostalgic—basically, too complex to define on the tiny slips of paper provided at the door.