Arts & Culture
Movie Review: Public Domain
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Public Domain is a collection of videos commissioned by SAW Video, Ottawa’s version of Video Pool. Six renowned video artists were given access to all of the audio-visual material available in the public archives...
Travel-logging: in the Lake of the Woods
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The cabin is in constant adjustment. With every visit, I am reminded of humanity’s weakness for the excess. Modern play-things are purchased to keep our adrenaline peaked, porcelain toilets multiply and new corridors are...
Extended Guy Maddin Interview
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The following questions revolve around Guy Maddin's Hauntings 1, a multi-screen installation that collects lost and unfinished films of various late filmmakers and projects them in a gallery dressed to mimic a haunted house....
CD Review: Beirut, The Rip Tide
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Music that makes me want to listen to it, that is how I would describe The Rip Tide, the new album from Beirut. As a listener relatively new to the band (having heard only...
Point / Counterpoint
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Point / Counterpoint is a platform in which two parties discuss pertinent cultural issues from opposing sides. It’s a real debate, and like any honest fight, there are winners and losers. This is the...
For the record lover
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Do you ever feel like you never make enough time for your passions or hobbies? That you are constantly flooded with an inbox that never empties no matter how much you keep deleting? Other...
The bookstore of the present is closing its doors
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One might imagine the allegorical slamming of a book to coincide with the closing of Aqua Books, a renegade used book store in the city’s centre; its owner Kelly Hughes mentioned the reduction of...
