There was nothing to chuckle about as Protest the Hero and 3 Inches of Blood rolled into the Time to Laugh Comedy Club and prepared to slaughter, pillage and entertain on Monday night. Bringing with them a sizeable horde, consisting of local Kingston act Under Black Sails, Southern California’s The Confession and Vancouver’s Javelin Reign, these troops of doom wasted no time in unleashing their onslaught upon the gathered masses.

This year, the Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre’s method of fundraising will manage to combine performance art with the art of working with a deadline.
The 24-Hour Art-a-Thon will take place from noon this Saturday, until noon on Sunday. During the crunch, three teams of artists from the Queen’s and Kingston community will each work diligently to complete a piece of artwork. The so-called “space,” which is located in the old arcade building at 173 Princess St., will house the event.

Jeremy Mulder may have settled down in Kingston for the time being, but there’s no place to settle your eyes in most of his works on display in Lofty Views. Taking the incredible density of memories that collect in a hometown at their most visually literal, Mulder’s bright, collage-influenced paintings contain so much detail, it’s impossible to absorb it all.

As the summer blockbuster season comes to a close, studios are releasing their fall lineup. Among these films is directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ Little Miss Sunshine. With a cast made up of talented unknowns and veterans of the screen, Little Miss Sunshine is a quirky comedy with the potential to become one of this year’s most loved films.

Awoo is the Hidden Camera’s most recent studio release, and doesn’t offer fans the lo-fi sound quality heard on their previous albums. Instead of their usual techniques for recording, Joel Gibb and his band used more up-to-date technology to record their third record.

Over a spare, distorted drum track, skeletal acoustic guitar and electronic squelches, a scratchy-voiced man intoned “Paper snake takes the bait I left it now trapped inside the box I brought / Paper snake can safely be tested for nasty things that we don’t want / Paper snake filled up with our ointment cures its hate and its disease / Paper snake just relax and join us, together we will make you bleed.” …

Thanks mainly to our use and abuse of the automobile, the glaciers of the North and South Poles are melting, causing water levels to rise. Losing their glacial homes, polar bears are dying off quickly. The increased temperature of ocean water is changing weather patterns dramatically, resulting in more hurricanes, droughts and floods. But here’s another conundrum: Al Gore is a politician, not a scientist. Most rational individuals don’t trust politicians, so why should we trust Gore’s documentary?

How does a drama student escape from the “Queen’s bubble” to make forays into the Kingston theatre community and beyond?
After their performance in a production by Open Minds, a community theatre group, Queen’s students Mandy Doherty, ArtSci ’06, and Keith Bennie, ArtSci ’07, said it isn’t as hard as it seems.
Doherty and Bennie just finished a three-show run of Swedish playwright August Steinberg’s bizarre and passionate Miss Julie, in a new translation.

At Queen’s Orientation Week six years ago, Bedouin Soundclash bassist Eon Sinclair thought he had everything figured out.
Two albums, a Zellers commercial, international tours and a 2006 Juno Award for Best New Group later, things have turned out a little bit differently.
Sinclair, singer/guitarist Jay Malinowski and drummer Pat Pengelly met in their first year at Queen’s and bonded over a shared appreciation of reggae. The band originally included Brett Dunlop on hand percussion.

It’s difficult to get through My Most Secret Desire in one sitting. Montreal-based cartoonist Julie Doucet is best known for the details of her drawings, and her new book delivers on this front. In My Most Secret Desire, Doucet draws detailed and vivid images of her dreams, exploring her subconscious and interrogating her sexuality.

You don’t have to be a subatomic physicist to enjoy Neutrinos They Are Very Small, a collection of works inspired by research into the mysterious titular particle. But luckily for those of us lacking advanced science degrees, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre is offering guided tours four times a week to give visitors a crash course on the neutrino, and just what exactly it has to do with art, anyway.

Just one dark, creepy alleyway removed from Lee’s Palace in Toronto, Fat Robot are drinking beer in a parking lot and reflecting on the fact that they, along with fellow campus acts The Radical Dudez and Khaki Snack, have now played on the same stage as Kurt Cobain. It’s not a particularly glamourous scene, but neither is heroin addiction, and everyone’s got to start somewhere.

By most accounts, this year’s NXNE was something of a disappointment. The annual Toronto music festival seemed to scramble at the last minute to bring bigger ticket and independently booked shows with greater interest under its umbrella. Still, many of NXNE weekend’s most notable bills—including the Paper Bag Records showcase and the Six Shooter Records afternoon barbeque—weren’t technically part of the festival. Special recognition is due to the festival’s best band name: Adam Puddington and the Proof.

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