Category: Arts & Culture

By Patricia Grysiewicz A three-foot-long phallus, flashing lights and a stage full of actors who strip down to their underwear make Aristophanes’ Lysistrata hard to forget. Ryerson’s acting grads and director John Van Burek present Lysistrata and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet this week in repertory. Two plays with similar themes, but obvious differences. In Lysistrata, […]

By David Redford Students tired of mindless trash coming out of Hollywood, have no fear, there is an alternative. A group of Ryerson media arts students, tired of what’s playing in mainstream theatres are taking money out of their own pockets to put on experimental films every Friday. “There aren’t a lot of venues for […]

Acting troupe not the traditional balloon animal and spraying flower type

By Lee Fay “At the end of the day it’s a jazz fusion, jazz funk — a mish-mash.” This is how Stuart Zender, bassist for the British band Jamiroquai (a combinations of “jam” as in jamming and “Iroquai” as in “the misspelling of” the Native American Iroquois tribe), described his band’s sound at a press […]

By Paul Sambla From the dark, secret practice room in the basement of a Scarborough dry-cleaning store, singer Richard Sabsay unveils the modest dreams he has for his hard-rock band, TANJ. “We don’t have any delusions of grandeur. We do not expect to be a bunch of Mick Jaggers. We just want to make a […]

For one fan the magic will never be gone, but there's nothing like the first time

Citizen Ruth satirizes abortion conflict

Toronto Blues Society putting on harmonica workshop

By Theresa Ebden The Best Foreign Film from the 1971 Academy Awards, detailing Mussolini’s Fascist regime in World War II, has been revamped with new technology. Now playing at the Carleton cinema, The Gardens of the Fizni-Continis examines intimate details of the vitctim’s lives. Class division among the Italian-Jewish community determines the different families’ responses […]

By Kelvin Chan Even with the incest, simulated oral sex (at least that’s what I think it was), uncoordinated stip-club dancing, phony fight scenes, lounge singing and the rambling monologues, Sled is still a pretty horrible play. Sled is Judith Thompson’s latest play, her first full-length effort in seven years. It’s being billed as “epic […]