Category: Arts & Culture

By Sonja Rasula Hilarious, morbid, perfect, the work of genius — these are a few of the ways that the films of Joel and Ethan Coen, AKA The Coen Brothers, have been described. Their unmistakable style combines exceptional visual artistry, fascinating dialogue, bizarre plots and a twisted sense of humour. The duo direct, produce and […]

Twin Peaks director staying bizarre (How bizarre [x2])

Lilith plays the waiting game with success

Festival of short plays spotlights Canadian talent

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