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  • 11 years 1 month ago

Take me to the riot

Flinging roses and baring their oh-so-sensitive souls, Stars played their melodramatic pop to a packed Sydenham Street United Church crowd, hopped up on sugar courtesy of the Humane Society’s bakesale.Continue...
  • 11 years 1 month ago

A few of our favourite things

1. Coldplay—Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (Parlophone)Continue...

Sally Hawkins plays Poppy in Happy-Go-Lucky, a primary school teacher whose glass-half-full mantra is overzealous at best.
  • 11 years 1 month ago

Gabby, happy, sappy and all too Poppy

At a time when we’ve all got hundreds of papers to write, thousands of exams looming on the horizon and millions of grad school applications to turn in, the last thing we need is a film that rubs in one person’s happiness in our oxygen-and-endorphin-starved faces like Drano into a gushing wound.Continue...

Angela Desveaux calls upon her family’s Acadian roots and current Montreal living in her album Angela Desveaux the Mighty Ship.
  • 11 years 1 month ago

Music, might and ships

The past is a teacher, a shaper of things to come.Continue...

Gnu Ground throws a wrench in the suburdan family unit in The Last One to Bed.
  • 11 years 1 month ago

Group breaking Gnu ground

Think the family next door is perfect?Continue...

Tickle Me Pink
  • 11 years 2 months ago

Rock & Roll Report Card

This summer, the alternative band Tickle Me Pink released their debut album Madeline.Continue...

Steely and smooth, Daniel Craig returns in the lastest twist in the Bond-lineage where sex-romps are replaced by revenge, leaving traditional Bond-goers out in the cold.
  • 11 years 2 months ago

Breaking the Bond

Take a double-shot of gin, shake it with a good-versus-evil dichotomy, pour it over a rock-solid myth of British imperialism and you’ve got the biggest film franchise ever.Continue...

Blusey and country-esque, NQ Arbuckle are too busy making music to decide what to label themselves.
  • 11 years 2 months ago

NQ to the XOK

I interrupted Neville Quinlan—the NQ of NQ Arbuckle—in the midst of a chilli lunch.Continue...

Recent nominees for Rookie of the Year on CBC Radio3, Plants and Animals are diving back into writing material now that it has turned cold.
  • 11 years 2 months ago

A Parc full of Plants and Animals

From an encounter with dolphins to a run-in with drug-sniffing dogs, Plants and Animals stayed true to their name during their first North American tour this fall.Continue...

Philipe Petit “dialoguing with the sky” in his 45-minute miracle above the New York City skyline.
  • 11 years 2 months ago

Masterwork on wire

On August 7, 1974, with the help of a few accomplices, an optimistic, puckish young Frenchman named Phillipe Petit strung a tightrope wire across the 200-foot gap between the World Trade Centre buildings and spent 45 euphoric minutes “dialoguing with the sky”—almost half a kilometre above the ground—until forced to stop by the police who threatened that he would be plucked off the wire by helicopter.Continue...

Daniela Gesundheit is the mind and heart behind Snowblink’s folksy tales and eerie melodies.
  • 11 years 2 months ago

In the blink of an eye

Mysterious in name, Snowblink seems to allude to intricate meanings as some sort of reflection of the band’s penchant for complex and eerie melodies.Continue...

Ben Nelson, a staple of the Kingston arts, is showing his first solo exhibit.
  • 11 years 2 months ago

In full colour

Even though Benjamin Nelson rides a very bright, very orange bicycle around the streets of Kingston you probably don’t know him or even his name.Continue...

Kevin Doe plays a young Albert Einstein in Chaos Theory’s latest production.
  • 11 years 2 months ago

The science of retrospect, the staging of histories

For a young company devoted to creating theatre that is both ecologically sound and thought-provoking, Chaos Theory Theatre Company’s decision to perform Vern Thiessen’s Einstein’s Gift as their second ever production is particularly apt.Continue...

With literate lyricism in hand, Attack in Black held their crowds’ attention on Monday night at the Time to Laugh Comedy Club.
  • 11 years 2 months ago

Attack in Kingston

Attack in Black are known for their literate and genre-crossing take on rock and roll.Continue...

Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks star in Zack and Miri Make a Porno, a surprisingly typical film-within-a-film that connects with the funnybone regardless of its revealing ending.
  • 11 years 2 months ago

Fornication and fiscal salvation

Man, are pornos ever great!Continue...

Dan Werb and Paul Banwatt are an adrenaline rush on stage and on disc.
  • 11 years 2 months ago

Knock on wood

When Woodhands front man Dan Werb informed me we would have to wait a few minutes for drummer Paul Banwatt to conference into our phone interview, I’ll admit I had a moment of anxiety about a potential awkward silence ahead.Continue...

If I’d known You Were Coming is lucid and jarring as it deals with four artists’ musings on a range of experiences.
  • 11 years 2 months ago

Mixing media and experience

We each have a personal and collective history compiled in our memories made up of things like old novels, embarrassing baby clothing and dusty records playing songs of times past.Continue...

Cold War Kids
  • 11 years 2 months ago

Rock & Roll Report Card

The artwork for the Cold War Kids’ latest album has a skeleton on the front.Continue...

The Bicycles are back with with their melodic sprints through rock and roll on new album Oh No, It’s Love.
  • 11 years 2 months ago

Bubblegum and bikers

The Bicycles are coming your way and, to paraphrase Freddie Mercury, you should forget all your duties and be there Saturday night at The Grad Club.Continue...

Former philosopher Matthew Barber is back with a new bad, The Spades and the more mature album Ghost Notes.
  • 11 years 2 months ago

Mr. Barber’s ghosts

When I walked into the Journal house to get cozy with indie-rock musician Matthew Barber, I brought two hot chocolates.Continue...

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