Category: Arts & Culture

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Students sleep to their way to fame

October 10, 2001

By Erin Silver Ryerson students jumped into bed with U8TV.com Lofters stars Jennifer Hedger and Tre Smith last week during on-camera auditions, hoping to snag a spot on the reality show’s second season.

Play exposes Toronto’s seedy underbelly

October 10, 2001

By Amy Kenny What comes to mind when you read the words “Toronto’s seedy underbelly”? Sherbourne and Shuter? Any corner on Yonge Street? How about the Ryerson Theatre School?

Wok, don’t run, but walk the other way

October 3, 2001

By Jordan Heath-Rawlings When Manchu Wok opened its kiosk in The Hub last Wednesday, students may have thought that they’d finally be able to buy good, cheap Chinese cuisine on campus.

Beauty in a jar of mayonnaise

October 3, 2001

By Stefanie Polsinelli Blender, check. Tea kettle, check. Forks and knives, check. Big bowls, check. Not only are you all set to make a cake, you also have the perfect tools to create a facial mask. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Online journals are a voyeur’s delight

October 3, 2001

By Caroline Pelletier There are certain titillating websites that will give you an illicit thrill, and someone behind those websites is probably sitting next to you in English class.

Peddlers hawk atwood, tape dispensers

October 3, 2001

By Robert Ballantyne Once a year book lovers gather to rub shoulders with famous authors and score great deals on tape dispensers.

This ain’t the Ryerson bookstore

September 26, 2001

By Jordan Heath-Rawlings Are you a part of a subculture so small that it’ll never appear in Spin magazine? Do you worship or idolize a specific genre of film or music that everyone else ignores? Do you have something to tell the world but don’t know how to begin?

Ian Hamilton – After hours

September 26, 2001

By Molly Seewald By day, he’s the mild-mannered campus planner at Ryerson. By night, he’s a romantic hero of the Cabbagetown jazz scene. Ian Hamilton has more to offer than meets the eye.

Ryerson prof tells East Coast tales

September 26, 2001

By Erin Silver Mary Sheppard travelled a long way from home to pursue a career in broadcast journalism. I was only when this Newfoundlander travelled farther that she was able to get back to her roots and concentrate on writing her first novel.

Vintage store sews its seeds at Ryerson

September 26, 2001

By Mary Nersessian It’s easy to trip over one of the 14 waist-high, overflowing bags of crumpled clothing in the cramped storeroom of The Underground vintage clothing store. The musty smell smell in the air is reminiscent of Grandma’s attic and a conveyor belt is piled high with second-hand wool sweaters and faded jeans.

Film festival eats up student shorts

September 26, 2001

By John Gemmell Eighteen films directed by Ryerson image arts students will adorn the silver screen this weekend at the Bloor Cinema’s Student Shorts film festival – the brainchild of three recent graduates determined to earn recognition for themselves and their peers.

Kitty Snaxxx messes with your perception

September 19, 2001

By John Gemmell While most art students are happy to have a job, any job, after receiving their degree. Katia Taylor is flying high with two exhibitions showing simultaneously in Toronto.

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