Arts & Culture

In his first work of creative non-fiction, the 13-year old Eric Valdemar wrote about war and childhood. Inspired by his hometown of Rostock in northern Germany, the site of numerous pioneering aeroplane-manufacturing facilities, and...

The first song I heard on Corb Lund’s new album, Losin’ Lately Gambler was “A Game in Town Like This,” and, frankly, it filled me with a sense of dread. The song wasn’t bad;...

Hip-Hop is a genre of music but it is more often than not called “rap,” which is technically the vocal style. In many ways, people are right to use that term because this music...

Todd Snider delivers another dish of country fried good times on his eighth full-length studio album, The Excitement Plan. Fans of Snider’s will find the “barefoot troubadour” in fine form, producing 12 top-notch tunes...

5 O’clock Bells Directed by Brian Quirt Starring Pierre Brault * out of ** The 2009-10 season opened Oct. 8 with 5 O’clock Bells, a play about the person who made the Guess Who possible. You may...

Despite the ever-present threat of terrible weather, I firmly believe October is one of the best months of the year. The hubbub of back-to-school insanity has died down and people have settled into a...

At first glance, theatre is an archaic art form, utterly outdone by its more glamorous and accessible counterpart, film. Why, then, is it important that theatre persevere in this-fast paced culture fixated on consumption...