Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll By Stephanie Raycroft The Argus Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is one of the most popular and enduring children’s stories. It only makes sense that is was an instant success when it was originally published in 1885, 16 years before Walt Disney was even born. I know [...]
Last year’s top 10 sports stories By Noah Cain Sports Editor Welcome to 2013. Often in 2012, I was reminded why I love sports. I saw great individual and team accomplishments, heard inspiring stories of perseverance and courage, and witnessed unexpected rises to greatness. However, last year,my attention was also drawn to the dark side [...]
By Stephanie Raycroft The Argus This week, we went in a bit of a new direction, giving Relic, a.k.a. Rel McCoy’s, latest offering,Miles to Go, a listen. The Toronto artist has been proclaimed a “hip hop guru,” with such titles as Emcee, DJ, Juno award-winning producer, engineer, and singer. The “total package in Canadian hip [...]
By Amy Szybalski Arts & Culture Editor I tend to be a person who is impressed by scope when it comes to the stage. I remember being absolutely awed by the impressive staging, costumes, and props of The Lion King when I saw it on Broadway. I was amazed by so many people singing together, [...]
Shiny, scary people By Stephanie Raycroft The Argus When we last left The Shining’s Jack Torrance, he had just obtaineda job maintaining the Overlook Hotel for the long, isolated Colorado winter. His past troubles with alcohol and problematic reputation makes this the only real choice of employment, thanks to his friend, Al Shockley. And so [...]
Martin McDonaugh’s second major film forays laughs, a loaded cast, and lively action − but is something lacking By Esa Keltamaki Seven Psychopaths follows the misadventures of screenwriter Marty and his friends Billy and Hans, who run a dognapping scam. The flick features all of Martin McDonaugh’s familiar facets of filmmaking: stark brutality, irrational characters, [...]
By Rebecca Akrasi-Sarpong Everybody has their preference for entertainment and what is funny. Obviously, there are commonalities across groups which allow comedies to be successful and receive great reviews. I learned in Media Studies that comedy often does not carry across cultures. Violence and sex, however, are topics universally understood. When you mix violence and [...]
By Alex Calnan I am a huge sucker for feel-good classics, which is why George Orwell’s 1984 was an oddly tough sell to my past 16 year-old self in grade eleven English class. You know what I’m talking about. Remember when your teacher assigned your class to read this novel, and you realized that it [...]
By Amy Szybalski Arts & Culture Editor The country atmosphere began even before I had made it through the doors of the Magnus Theatre for the opening performance of its latest production, “A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline”.Cowboy boots were noticeable on audience members as they approached the venue where a tribute to one of [...]
A look the good, bad and ugly features of one of Canada’s favourite video games By Mike St. Jean Editor-in-Chief With the looming threat of another NHL lockout, puck-heads across the nation can get at least some of their hockey fix from the latest addition of the longest-running NHL video game series. NHL 13 officially [...]
By John Coleman Copy Editor Kremlin, a three-piece hailing from ye olde Toronto, self-released ademoin 2011 that showed off a chilling prowess – a four-song demo-nstration of how to clank out blindingly fast, surfily fun, yet furrow-browed and fist-raising hardcore punk. (I must say, that surf-riff on “No Work” echoes that of the Ramones’s junkie-elegy [...]
New Cajun inspired restaurant misses the mark Amy Szybalski Arts & Culture Editor Local landmark Uncle Frank’s Supper Club closed its doors in 2005 after more than 50 years in business. The 200-seat bar and restaurant remained empty for a few years before Sioux Lookout businessman Dick Davidson bought it with plans to renovate. The [...]
Hollywood is out of ideas. Go to any movie theatre in the summer and all you will see are sequels, prequels, reinventions, and re-imaginations of your favourite, or your grandfather’s favourite story.
I sat in my treehouse at midnight to listen to Break It Yourself, the fourth solo release by Andrew Bird. Darkness and rustling leaves provided the perfect backdrop to the album, which crafts an old-time sound by focusing on two-part harmonies and using violins, bells, or whistling for melodies.
It is easy to get stuck in a rut musically: you have a band or artist that you love, and you generally listen to things that sound similar. If you are a country music lover, you generally listen to country, folk, some rock, and keep to that musical family.
Six years after Every Time I Die initially graced the citizens of Thunder Bay with their presence at the Community Auditorium opening for Alexisonfire, the band returned on their headlining tour to rock the stage at Crocks on Feb. 28.
Project X is not meant to be a movie, it’s meant to be an experience. A chance to re-live your high school days, or what you wished your high school days were like. An opportunity to go to that monster party and to be the center of attention, and not just a mathlete with a sister for a prom date.
“I like taking Native stereotypes and twisting them inside and out,” writer Drew Hayden Taylor commented after the show. This is precisely what Taylor did in his play, 400 Kilometres. Brought to life last week by Michelle Latimer (Janice) and Jonathan Fisher (Tonto), the production was another resounding success by director Mario Crudo.
Cambrian Players hits the stage with flair Amanda McAlpine Arts and Culture Editor Two American girls and a few crazy Italian men—if this doesn’t make for comedic theatre, I don’t know what else does. John Patrick’s hilarious comedy Roman Conquest was recently put on by Thunder Bay’s Cambrian Players. This is a story about two [...]
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is an almost perfect book. Its protagonist, Oskar Schell, is a charming, disarming, inventive, odd boy. He weaves a spell that has you speaking his dialect and hoping with all your being that he can solve his increasingly mystifying mystery.
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