Category: Arts & Culture

The Movie Mongers gather Ryerson students together to watch and discuss cinema and television shows.

By Matthew Tulloch At Yuk Yuk’s, a hush falls on the audience the moment Andre Arruda clambers on the stage but the comedian immediately turns the awkward silence into giggles. He grimaces and sighs, fusses with his microphone and takes several long swigs from his bottle of Evian. Then the jokes begin. When his time […]

By Alison Northcott It was an evening of Shameless promotion. At the El Mocambo last Thursday, Nicole Cohen and Melinda Mattos hosted Springtime Fresh, an all ages fundraiser for their soon-to-be-launched magazine, Shameless. Shameless is an alternative magazine for teenage girls. It aims to defy the stereotypes put forth by many mainstream teen magazines. “One […]

By André Voshart It’s Friday at midnight and the cast of RIOT 2004 is alert enough to run through the whole show one more time. They are gassed up on gummy bears and stale muffins. One of them juggles a pink vibrating dildo before going through a skit title “Gyno Pussy.” “Nothing is off limits […]

By Jordan Heath-Rawlings It took a movie with no plot, no action and a lack of giant robots to finally convince Kevin Smith that he could be a filmmaker. In 1991, Smith was working in a convenience store in New Jersey, wondering what to do with himself while trying not to impregnate his girlfriend and […]

By Katie Schneider “Welcome to my brain…”       A computer-like male voice dominates the theatre as the dancers step onto the stage. “Run upstage…” “Spread out…” “Reverse!” the strange voice calls out as the dancers comically follow the instructions. Dance students became the choreographers for Choreographic Works, the Ryerson dance program’s annual spring performance, which […]

By Jennifer Fong Ever watch Fashion Television and wonder what those designers were thinking when they decided to put that on a runway? Making a functional piece of clothing – a few stitches here, a little cutting there – sounds simple enough doesn’t it? As it turns out, there’s a lot more than a little […]

By Julia Che at first no one notices as 15 black-clad dancers gather at the pedestrian bridge between Union Station and the CN Tower. The drab concourse becomes a stage and then the music starts. Jeremy Nasmith and Toan Truc are the first to begin. If you were to come across this dance in the […]

By Joan Chang Virgins. They are people who will eventually be struggling to maneuver through flailing limbs and hoping it all comes through in the end. Inevitably, it is an awkward transition from virgin to sexual being. Jeanette Cabral a third-year radio and television arts student, recalls her first time. “It happened in the summer. […]