By Jason Paul
Remember that girl in high school with the jet black hair, the Black Flag T-shirt and the worn out Chuck Taylor’s? Maybe she quietly worked in the library and read Maximumrocknroll and Hunter S. Thompson? If your fantasy girl ever fit this description, chances are the Suicide Girls have recruited her. Once an ambivalent party… Continue reading Theatre Review: Suicide Girl ignite the High Performance Rodeo
By Kenzie Love
Ignore the lame rhyme at the end of Assault on Precinct 13: “Wow, what an ending!” It’s an ill fitting description for Jean-François Richet’s film, only the beginning of which has anything going for it. The camera narrows in on Ethan Hawke delivering a profanity laden rant while conducting a drug deal in a Detroit… Continue reading Movie Review: Assault on precinct cinema
By Magnus Xavier Fizzleworth esq. & Prof. Phillius P. Trundlebottom
Wherein noted word fandangalizer Magnus Fizzleworth and his Distinguished contemporary Professor Phillius P. Trundlebottom disclose with indomitable retrospective enthusiasm the Wonders of this year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Four.Best Canal Fizzleworth: There can be no Question that the Suez Canal takes top honours this year, being not only the most Southern canal… Continue reading THE BEST OF 1854
By Kyle Francis
The entire hotel creaks, foundation vaporized by whizzing bullets. Four of its occupants leap a stairwell as malicious metal monsters explode drywall and wooden studs. Dust and splinters shower the men as they slide around a corner into the gaping doorway leading out into the street. They can make out the vague silhouettes of friendly… Continue reading Music Interview: Sum 41: Army for democracy
By Jesse Keith
Towering stilt walkers and thirteen foot beasts lumber through Bankers Hall behind a procession of dancing lanterns. Imps from the Czech Republic soar through the Epcor Centre, while John Cusak’s puppet from Being John Malkovich twists free of his bounds in his display case at the Stride Gallery. This gathering of unique and surreal forms… Continue reading Theatre Preview: The puppets have arrived
Life sucks and then you die. A philosophy adopted as a mantra in our time. The linear philosophy of birth, life, then death being the be-all-end-all contradicts Santee Smith’s dance performance Kaha:wi. Her focus on the cyclical perspective of life comes from her Iroquian roots and allows for a refreshing new look at life, death,… Continue reading Dance Preview: Santee Smith grounded in dance
Gay issues were a continuous source of controversy in the media, courts and over water coolers for the past several years. At the forefront of court battles across the country are gay marriages, while lobby groups nip at politicians to increase and expose inequality issues for the gay community. It seems everyone has something to… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Laugh and learn with the Stand Up Homo
One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo is well-known for its provocative offerings but on the surface level, Faithless appears to be somewhat subdued. Armed with only two chairs and a blanket, performers and co-writers Christopher Craddock and Steve Pirot are left to their own devices to create a sincere and engaging show. But the simplicity… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Faithless still get after life
There is a new force invading the hallowed churches of our city, filling them from knave to narthex. It crashes over pews, scattering bibles left and right and spews from guitar, pipe organ and bass. Beware when it breaks from the house of the Lord into the light of the city, creating a City of… Continue reading Music Interview: City braces for Summerlad’s noise
By Alan Cho
There exists a homosexual conspiracy. When family value fundamentalists, WWJD silk ties drenched in the spittle of the righteous, screeched about the gay agenda, who knew they’d be so right? The only problem is, they’ve been looking in the wrong direction. Too busy pointing to Hollywood’s infatuation with lesbian trysts and sly sodomites slipping into… Continue reading Set phasers to thtun, thilly goose!