You may not have heard of Laura Barrett and you may not have heard of her preferred instrument, the kalimba.

Jason Collett likes the Grad Club, just the way it is.

It’s easy to play it safe, to repeat past successes in an attempt to placate anxious audiences with a strong affinity for the status quo.

To be or not to be an arts supporter, that is the timely question at hand in the clever comedy Hamlet 2.

It’s no secret that Kingston is an idiocyncratic hotbed for music; from the Wolfe Island Festival to the Limestone City Blues Fest and this month’s Jazz Festival, Kingston attracts interesting acts in a wide array of musical genres.

Rolf Klausener and his band The Acorn are constantly turning over a new leaf.

Think about the last time you encountered art—it probably wasn’t very long ago.

Ohbijou—you know, the band with the funny name—released the album Swift Feet For Troubling Times in 2006 to much critical praise.

More than just a cheeky name and the scapegoat for a trigger-happy, art-funds-slashing conservative government, Canadian low-fi electro-rockers Holy Fuck have earned their notoriety simply by their way of making music.

Edward Burtynsky will tell you that we’ve moved into a planetary crisis.
He may also say the federal sustainability discussion in North America is “maddening,” the rapid and destructive industrialization of China is “dire,” the Conservative government is destroying our reputation in Europe as well as our ability to produce culture and that electing John McCain to the White House would be, for the devastation of our environment, like saying “forget the brake pedal and slam on the gas a little harder.”

Global warming is a slow and potentially painful process.

René Francisco has a flair for the serendipitous.

What do you get when you ferment a pompous British ex-pat oenophile, some sun-drenched, entrepreneurial Californian hicks, distilled with a healthy dose of American chauvinism and oaked in a crew of hustlin’, washed-up hippies?

From the depths of Brit Pop and mid-90s alternative comes The Verve’s fourth studio album—its first in 11 years—simply titled Forth.

Kingston is working to make its entertainment scene a little bigger and better.

“We play here a lot.”

I’m going to ruin the surprise for you.