Artist: Taking Back Sunday Album: Tell All Your Friends Allow me to rectify one of humanity’s greatest mistakes; despite being snubbed at every major award ceremony, Taking Back Sunday released Tell All Your Friends in March of 2002, and arguably, since then, all of music has been a footnote. As […]
Arts & Culture
The Ontarion’s arts and culture articles cover the local artistic scene, including news, interviews, and reviews.
“A fiddler on the roof—sounds crazy, no?”
It was no doubt a difficult feat to honour thousands of years of Jewish history in one show, but with a cast of 50 and a run-time of three hours, Royal City Musical Production’s latest presentation of Fiddler on the Roof certainly warranted the audience’s applause. It has been 34 […]
Album review: Justin Bieber—Purpose
In the late 2000s, Justin Bieber first emerged as Usher’s baby-faced protegé peddling heart-melting teen pop with songs like “Baby” and “One Less Lonely Girl.” Over the years, though, new music by Bieber has been released at increasingly less frequent intervals as the pop star has become better known for […]
The ONtaku: Popular MMORPG to make cinema debut
With the much-anticipated seventh installment of the Star Wars film series looming on the horizon, it is not unlikely that the existence of the upcoming World of Warcraft (WoW) movie has gone under the radar. A substantial amount of hype has understandably been paid to the space opera franchise, but […]
Guelph artist receives $25,000 grant
Guelph-based artist Patrick Cruz has recently won a $25,000 grant, courtesy of the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Originally from Manila, Cruz immigrated to Vancouver while he was still in high school. He later moved to Guelph, and is currently completing a degree in Guelph’s Masters of Fine Arts program. This […]
Margaret Atwood: The Heart Goes Last (2015)
Margaret Atwood’s new novel, The Heart Goes Last, is difficult to encapsulate or characterize. It’s also hard to concisely state what exactly the novel is about, as the plot structure is fairly complex and covers a variety of conflicts, centred on its main characters. In The Heart Goes Last, the […]
Book review: Gloria Steinem’s My Life on the Road
It’s impossible to read this book and not feel inspired in some way or another. Gloria Steinem’s recently released memoir, My Life on the Road, is the work of a woman who has spent the majority of her life changing the world with other inspiring women. A feminist activist, lecturer, […]
Reviewing Courtney Barnett’s Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
It seems as though every time I’m just starting to think that rock and roll really is dead, it seems another great female artist from some facet of the globe manages to change my mind again. This time that artist was Courtney Barnett. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, the 28 year-old […]
Album of the Week: The Royal Oui (2014)
Artist: The Royal Oui Album: The Royal Oui (2014) This self-titled, full-length album is the debut of Canadian indie-folk group, The Royal Oui. The Royal Oui is composed of a Canadian husband-wife singer-songwriter duo from Vancouver, Ari Shine and Adrienne Pierce. On this album, their voices come together in harmony […]
The Internet this Week
With the holidays fast approaching, the night is dark and full of carols. In advance of the gifting season, HBO has decided to give the world a gift, or at least a tease. In a move that is sure to ramp up speculation, hope, and frustration among viewers HBO has […]
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The Ontarion is the University of Guelph’s independent student newspaper. It began in 1951 as part of the Ontario Agricultural College and then began to represent the entire University of Guelph once it amalgamated in 1964. The Ontarion incorporated in May 1970 as The Ontarion, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation registered with the province of Ontario.