Montreal under cover band Clues visit Guelph Clues, the five piece multi-instrumental indie pop band that hail from the vibrant city of Montreal, will bring their unique brand of jittery pop to the Royal city tonight at the eBar. Opening for Clues will be Etaoin Shrdlu. Clues has been laying […]

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks Reviewed by Steffen Bergen Screw vampires, zombies are cooler! In media and popular culture the horror genre has seemingly been transformed into romance, just look at the runaway success of the Twilight book and movie franchise. However, […]

Hawksley Workman: Meat Reviewed by Daniel Wright   It’s an endless debate between music aficionados which is better: originality or diversity.  While pop music often gets away with neither (for better or for worse); to make it with the snobs you’re going to need to be either “new-sounding” and/or eclectic.  […]

The Hillside state of mind Written by Zack MacRae   This past summer I went to Hillside, Guelph’s renowned outdoor music festival. And what an experience!  There were drum circles until four in the morning, the best local foods, an obvious focus on sustainability, skinny dipping, and of course a […]

Written by Miles Stemp In land art there is a tradition of use of space, and in particular a reaction to space.  We see in these works a physical response to the space. With Michael Heizer the space was simply a large track of land that he could bulldoze, reshape, […]

More than point and shoot “Look closely and notice the grain of the film – an entire image composed of millions of tiny individual specks of black and gray.” There is a simplicity to black and white photography, where careful construction of crisp contrast, gray tones and smooth depth of […]

Wilco: Wilco (The Album) When I was in Chicago this past summer, floating by the pie-shaped Marina Apartments on a tour-boat, it took me back to the surreal cover of Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002).  It also helped that Wilco was on my mind as the single “You Never Know” had […]

While it may seem a little cliché at this point in the year, there are few things as satisfying as embracing an activity that belongs in a Norman Rockwell painting: roasting chestnuts. While for some, the lack of an “open fire”, as the beloved song describes, might diminish the holiday-joy […]

Joshua Cleminson positions his work somewhere between modernism and consumerism, and photography and sculpture.  In his untitled works, he re-creates a larger versions of plastic packaging forms (the ones that toys and pretty much anything small from the dollar store come in) to accentuate the simple and accidental beauty within […]