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‘Tis the season for end-of-year best-of lists, and Journal staff have gathered to present their picks for the best five albums of 2007.Continue...

If you have only visited Kingston twice, and the experiences climaxed with discriminatory antics and a heated tussle, the third time may not be the charm.

For the Hidden Cameras—a pop-meets-folk-meets-controversy musical blend—these adventures are all the more incentive to return.Continue...

Chaos Theory is about four things: we’re about creating environmentally sustainable theatre from a green perspective, we’re about creating interdisciplinary discourse between the university and the community, we’re about bringing back the concept of storytelling to theatre and finally about making the most engaging, exciting and fun theatre we can.Continue...

Once they’ve started to play shows and promote themselves, most bands don’t change their name—especially after reviews in national newspapers, an appearance on MTV Canada and a variety of festivals, the prospect would seem like a publicity nightmare.Continue...

Love Will Tear Us Apart, the infectious title of Lisa Visser’s new collection of work at the Sleepless Goat, brings with it connotations of Joy Division’s hit single—heartbreak and musings on a bleak life outlook.

The dark and obsessive notion of the song “Love Will Tear Us Apart” intrigued Visser, so she created an exhibit to explore the meanings of this phrase and the history of the song using different media including photography, video stills, book-based artworks and textiles.Continue...

On the east end of Cataraqui Street, a stone’s throw away from the frosty waters of the Kingston Inner Harbour, sits a run-down factory that, upon first sight, looks frighteningly similar to the imagined locale of childhood nightmares.Continue...

You may have noticed as you’ve tuned in this week for your nightly dose of hilarity from Mr. Colbert, Mr. O’Brien, or, God forbid, Mr. Letterman that they’re still making cracks about the Michael Jackson trial. While a good Wacko Jacko joke will never truly grow old, seeing them retold does grow quite tiresome. And retold they shall be, as late-night comedy shows usually produced on a daily basis have been forced into reruns: they’re the first victims of the Hollywood writer’s strike that began early Monday morning.Continue...

Over the years a music lover and fervent concert-goer will attend too many shows to count, watch friends’ bands grow up and fizzle out, and witness the evolution, demise and reinvention of icons.

Usually we look back at ticket stubs, photos and anecdotes from those nights to remember when our favourite musicians came to town or when we ventured to the next city over to catch them live. A concert’s atmosphere is volatile; good or bad, it’s dependent on a cross-section of many factors. Band, venue, audience and, hell, even the weather help create a mood.Continue...

Winnipeg has long been a surprising hotbed of CanRock talent, and with the release of their new album Reunion Tour, the Weakerthans need not fear for their place in this canon.Continue...