Archive 1997-2016
Vampires are everywhere. They’re on TV, in bookstores and even on the magazine stand at the local convenience store. It’s a cultural phenomenon. Vampires have risen from the dead to fulfill entertainment needs.
Paul Dewar, MP for Ottawa Centre, had a new plan to force the government to stop playing “political football” with the arts.
As we dance into the digital age, tuning the toggle on the transistor to try a different tune has given way to the speed and convenience of a keyboard click. The federal government plans to invest further in digital music for our expedient pleasure – at the cost of avant garde music production.
Mathew Klie-Cribs, Centretown NewsMezzo-soprano Lee Hayes says she will be affected by cuts to the Canada Music Fund.
“War is hell.” Shrewd observation or amaranthine aphorism (call it what you will), it is a sentiment which pops up in some form or other in just about every film made in the genre – re-watch Platoon or Apocalypse Now if you have any doubts.