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After chatting with Kingston-based folk band Monuments and Statues for a whole three minutes and 27 seconds, they invited me to become a member of their band. Perhaps it was wrong of me to casually mention that I dabble with the ukulele, but after spending a few minutes with the group, they’re the type I know I—and most other people—wouldn’t mind
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It’s a terrifying prospect to interview a band for your first Journal article. That terror is only heightened when that band has received critical acclaim for their 10 CDs, been likened to R.E.M. and have been touring across Canada.

Skydiggers founding member Josh Finlayson is the exact opposite of a cocky rock star. When I talked to him, he described his career as very humbling and said he yearns to keep working and all the while a dog barks in the background.Continue...

Most people who know me are blatantly aware that I love to complain. There’s nothing I love more than a well-timed jab at others expense or bringing someone down a peg. That being said, I wish I could continue this article by filling it with the occasional pun or hilarious critique about how the liquor was the best part of my evening with at the Queen’s Players show Miley…why so Cyrus??—but I can’t.Continue...

Transformation and change is evident in the world around us, so it’s no surprise that it appears in the work of Canadian artist Bertram Brooker in the It’s Alive! Bertram Brooker and Vitalism exhibition on display at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

Bertram Brooker (1888-1955) was a Canadian artist whose work displays a fascinating transformation from straightforward, natural images early in his career to more whimsical and skewed works later on.Continue...

When your band is splashed on the cover of the hottest alt-weekly magazine, you don’t really need campus newspapers to like you anymore. That much was evident when I spoke to vocalist and frontwoman Becky Ninkovic of You say Party! We Say Die! on Monday.Continue...

To call actress, musician and comedian Charlyne Yi awkward would be an understatement. You may vaguely recognize Yi from her stoner-girl performance in Knocked Up—she’s the type of girl that often gets overlooked, which makes her latest flick refreshing to watch.Continue...