Guelph’s diverse music scene has something for every taste For a city of its size, Guelph has a strikingly diverse local scene. Punk rockers, DJs, folk songsmiths, and oddball experimentalists from the city and area flood downtown Guelph’s venues every weekend. If you haven’t got around to really digging into […]
Arts & Culture
The Ontarion’s arts and culture articles cover the local artistic scene, including news, interviews, and reviews.
Guelph’s Music Scene: Winter 2015 Forecast
What to look forward to this semester, in a nutshell Guelph’s music scene is alive and kickin’ during the Winter Semester. As proud Guelphites, we live in a city where live music is constantly at our fingertips, so take advantage! There is an abundance of live music every weekend, not […]
eBar Hosts Lowlands, Rival Boys, and Dirty Frigs
Fortnight Music presents evening of local favourites Local favourites Lowlands performed at eBar on Friday, Nov. 28, with Toronto’s Rival Boys and Dirty Frigs. With tunes ranging from high-energy indie pop to moody, atmospheric roots-folk, the eBar was treated to one of Guelph’s eminent groups as well as two exciting […]
The Weekly Scene: Interstellar
3.5 Convoluted-Scientific-Fever-Dreams out of 4 I understand why other people, and other critics, might not have enjoyed Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar as much as I did. Its script is clunky, its ideas contrived, and its overall quality is indicative of a level of self-indulgence not seen since Kubrick’s 2001: A Space […]
The Pleasure of Improvising Freely
New translation of Lê Quan Ninh’s book mediates life, pleasure, and art Improvising Freely: The ABCs of an Experience, local press and print-on-demand bookstore PSGuelph’s most recent title, collects, in alphabetical order, the musings of French percussionist Lê Quan Ninh. The book, in an English translation courtesy of University of […]
Jam Space: Musings on Sound and Culture
Top 10 of ’14 Goodness gracious, what a year for music. As the editor of the arts section, here is my inevitable year-end list, featuring some of the most enjoyable, innovative, and important records of 2014. I’d like to stress two things; that these are in no particular order, and […]
River Run Centre Welcomes University of Guelph Improviser-in-Residence
Scholar and musician Dong-Won Kim hosts finale concert with GSO In celebration of the spirit of improvisation, storytelling, and cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary dialogue, the River Run Centre’s Cooperators Hall hosted the culminating performance of improviser-in-residence Dong-Won Kim on Saturday, Nov. 29. The event was organized by the International Institute for […]
Album of the Week
Canadiana Suite (1964): Oscar Peterson Playfully energetic, soulful, and at times brooding, Oscar Peterson (piano) leads Ray Brown (bass) and Ed Thigpen (drums) on a patriotic journey across the great white north in this timeless jazz classic.
The Weekly Scene: Guardians of the Galaxy
3 True-Sci-Fi-Epics out of 4 Whereas Sony and Fox have been fighting their hardest to maintain some control over their respective franchises with varying results, Marvel Studios has yet to truly produce what anyone can call a bad movie. Even their lowest-rated and poorest-earning films have still been at par […]
Book Review: Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Comedienne extraordinare Amy Poehler offers hard-hitting advice with humour I have come to find that my favourite genre – when I have the opportunity to read for pleasure and not for work – is the humorous memoir. I spent much of my summer reading and re-reading the wise words of […]
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