Caitlin Choi

Volume 139 (2011-2012) – Assistant Arts Editor

Stories

Brittany Allan has dealt with last-minute issues including substituting a piano with a painted picnic bench.
March 30, 2012
Balancing Peanuts on a budget
Singer-songwriter Martina Sorbara of Dragonette performs at Ale House on Wednesday night.
March 22, 2012
Dragonette in the spotlight
Jason Paradis, BFA ’95, belonged to the graduating class that voted in the name for Union Gallery.
March 16, 2012
Stringing past and present
Jackie Paré in Vogue’s opening number models an independent design.
March 16, 2012
Vogue’s fashionable fight
Mariah Horner plays Schroeder, the blonde Peanuts character famous for playing his piano and loving classical music.
March 16, 2012
‘I was not expecting to get in’
Moka Only (left) previously a member of hip-hop group Swollen Members, and Evil Ebenezer describe ZZBRA’s music as space pop.
March 9, 2012
‘Most epic jungle movie of our time’
Phoebe Cohoe’s the best kind of careless is one of the artist’s mixed media installations in Union Gallery’s From the Tablet of My Memory.
March 2, 2012
Days in retrospect
Professor Tzachi Zamir from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem gave a lecture on pornography and acting in Watson Hall on Wednesday.
February 16, 2012
Porn talks
Myfanwy MacLeod’s The Fountainheads opens the Agnes Etherington’s Discontinued Colours.
February 14, 2012
Shades of humour
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown director Alysha Bernstein said her dream production to direct is Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company.
February 14, 2012
Mature direction
Lianne Suggitt, BFA ’12, had her oil painting Lingering exhibited at Union Gallery in November last year.
February 10, 2012
BFA has ‘lots to say’
Will Currie & the Country French won the CBC Radio 3 Award for Best Collaboration in 2008 for their single “Push Pins” featuring Sloan.
February 7, 2012
Country French crash course
Colette Urban’s Bare is featured in her film Pretend Not to See Me, which will screen at the Screening Room on Feb. 8.
February 3, 2012
Urban's farm
Princess Street in the 1960s.
January 31, 2012
Princess Street theatre to close
Queen’s rapper and medical student Joseph Gabriel first considered rapping under the name Dr. J, like the 1970s basketball player, but decided on Egyptian Prescription.
January 27, 2012
Sick raps
January 17, 2012
Candle affair
From left to right: The Enigma at the Mini Mart, Mizuz Inkaholik and Detroit Portrait.
January 13, 2012
Ink culture
Playing in Toronto, Rob Moir is backed by The Great Lates, featuring former bandmate and Dead Letter Dept. drummer Mike Leblanc.
December 1, 2011
Solo and stranded
The guitar from Flying V Down was stolen along with its 25 kilogram cement base. It had been buried in the ground at 448 Bagot St.
December 1, 2011
Artwork stolen
Kingston native, author Diane Schoemperlen, has studied under writers like W.O. Mitchell and Alice Munro. She’s since taught creative writing at St. Lawrence College and the Kingston School of Writing.
November 25, 2011
New Writer in Residence
Fourth year BFA student Lianne Suggitt looks at double-exposure photography and generations past as inspiration for her multimedia sculpture Fox Twins.
November 25, 2011
Rural reality
November 18, 2011
Puppets in progress
November 18, 2011
H’art artists
The end scene of Footloose features the high school students indulging in their first legal dance.
November 11, 2011
Footloose: film or musical
Gallery Raymond owner Raymond Vos was buying artwork in Toronto before he started representing local artists in Kingston in 1984. A collection of his Toronto pieces will be on sale at Harambee.
November 11, 2011
Street to school
Ben Whiteley says he’s a regular visitor to the Grad Club since he’s often in Kingston to visit his girlfriend who’s a Queen’s law student.
November 4, 2011
New, not Nashville
November 4, 2011
TD Pump It Up Concert
Holly Dean’s multi-media artwork explores environmental and linguistic themes by layering text, images and bold acrylic palettes.
November 1, 2011
Modern medieval
November 1, 2011
Late try secures bronze
Kingston Zine Fair founder Bill Gillespie (right) and Richard Tyo are two of four organizers of the annual event that will run at the Artel tomorrow.
October 28, 2011
Zine affair
RatTail got their name from the notorious 1980s hairstyle, which Jasmyn Burke was sporting when the band formed.
October 25, 2011
‘Contained crazy’
When Down In Ashes aren’t performing or rehearsing, they like to play Xbox and go to Pearl Jam concerts together.
October 25, 2011
Down In Ashes gets fired up
Claudia is a 12-year-old who is angry at her father for neglecting her and for her parents’ divorce.
October 21, 2011
Girl uninterrupted
Ezia Couture was co-founded by Rebecca Schidlowsky, who hires workers to handcraft each of the headbands to ensure quality.
October 21, 2011
Financing fascinators
I, Claudia uses masks to help the actress and audience transition from one character to the next.
October 18, 2011
Masked changes
October 7, 2011
Lovers talk
Royal Wood self-produced, arranged and played most of the instruments on his past albums. For The Waiting, his latest album, he invited Pierre Marchand to produce three of the tracks.
October 4, 2011
Pumped up king
Wildlife found their bass player Dwayne Christie off a posting on Craigslist.
October 4, 2011
Into the depths of Wildlife
Though Tommy Youngsteen is only playing shows around Ontario, its members have played shows all around the world, opening for bands like the Rolling Stones and AC/DC.
September 30, 2011
On the classic track
Jenny Sampirisi co-founded the Toronto New School of Writing in 2010, which offers writing workshops ranging from one day to 10-week courses.
September 27, 2011
The frog princess
The Kingston Fall Book Mega-Launch will feature readings from five new titles.
September 27, 2011
Autumn inauguration
Andrew W.K. prides himself on living a diverse life that includes hosting the show Destroy Build Destroy on the Cartoon network.
September 23, 2011
‘The joy of not being dead’
The Smashers have accomodated French crowds with written lyrics on stage.
September 20, 2011
Skank revival
Garage-punk band Hut cancelled their performance with Sleuth Bears due to a music emergency in Toronto. Experimental-pop project Moon King will take their spot in tonight’s line-up.
September 16, 2011
Sleuth youth
Rebecca Soudant’s husband created the metal-scrolling device that kept her tapestry intact.
September 13, 2011
A tapestry tale
The new release from the Jack Grace Band combines an experimental country flavour with a new latin vibe.
September 9, 2011
Humorous grace
Local artist Penny Gorman makes her architectural-folk art from recyclable materials including broken shutters and pieces of old hardware.
July 26, 2011
Art from the heart
July 26, 2011
Motor matters
Denise Stockley is director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning. She instructs a course that teaches communication skills to teaching assistant candidates.
October 26, 2010
Talking about communication

Photos

The Night of the Living Dead cast is mainly made up of zombies whose only job is to bang on the windows and doors while constantly moaning.
October 25, 2011
Flesh-eating and fear-mongering

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