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D for D-Sisive

D for D-Sisive
“You ever watch Fred on You Tube,” asks D-Sisive. A friend sent him a link to a You Tube video about somebody named Fred who’s the object of scorn for this other guy, Chicken Little, and D-Sisive is clearly enthralled with it. “This is what I do, I watch clips on You Tube and see who’s having...

Local Focus 4 Schedule Announced

Local Focus 4 Schedule Announced
Local Focus 4 is back this month to celebrate to the best in locally-made cinema, and this year’s schedule includes a full week of programming and a change in venue to the Registry Theatre. The program for this year’s Local Focus will feature a combination of short films, documentaries, music videos...

Kazoo! Fest Returns

Kazoo! Fest Returns
Kazoo! Festival is returning to Guelph in a couple of weeks, and it features a very impressive line-up of music, film, and other interesting facets of arts in the Royal City. Below, is a press release from Kazoofest! outlining what all’s a part of this year’s activities, but for full details...

Farewell to Generation X

Farewell to Generation X
In what was a sure sign of the times, it was announced during the Christmas holidays that Waterloo’s vaunted Generation X video would be closing its doors at the end of February. On February 28th, a little piece of modern K-W history will close its doors and movie lovers who have yet to make the...

Hillside Inside Acts Announced

Hillside Inside Acts Announced
Hillisde Inside just announced the first names for its fourth annual show, which this year will unfold across two days and at multiple locations around Downtown Guelph. Sarah Harmer will headline the show with a performance at River Run Centre on Friday February 4th, while the Saturday night show...

WFAC - 10 Years Strong

WFAC - 10 Years Strong
Joseph Chen is driving to the Gig Theatre in Kitchener to do a final dress rehearsal of sorts. He’s got the films to be run in his car and he’s taking them down to the venue located in downtown Kitchener to make sure the prints are ready to roll for the Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema. It...

Indie Poet Makes it Happen

Indie Poet Makes it Happen
Rudyard Fearon is one of the few inde writers today who, rather than complain about the Canadian government and what it doesn’t do for artists, steps up to plate and does for himself, whether he’s getting his work published in a magazine or published it under his own press. You can occasionally...

Scenes from Hillside 2010

Scenes from Hillside 2010
You walk around with a camera at Hillside and you’re going to come away with hundreds of shots. And not just shots of the musicians, but a tonne of pictures of revellers enjoying this unique, laid back annual celebration of music and community. Below find more of Tom Brown’s photography from...

Another Year at Hillside

Another Year at Hillside
The last weekend of July, Guelph Lake played host once again for the city’s annual Hillside Festival, and like the 26 festivals which have come before, this year’s Hillside has, without a doubt, lived up to its reputation. Whether this was your first time attending Hillside, or you’re a seasoned...

Dead Genesis Movie Review

Dead Genesis Movie Review
The zombie genre is one that no matter how many times people say it’s done, it just keeps coming back for more. Nature of the beast I’m afraid. You can’t kill what’s already dead. But seriously, as continually proven there’s plenty of wiggle room in the genre for a genuinely surprising effort...

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