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Why the historic Walkerville Theatre is still for sale Natasha Marar Editor-in-Chief he curtains have remained closed at the near century old Walkerville Theatre for seven years, despite a plummeting price tag and an owner driven to sell. With the Palace Cinemas closing its doors on Jan. 8, and the...
Victor Romao’s art addresses the dark roots of rural Canadian living Josh Kolm ARTS EDITOR alm, bat-headed men are bizarre, but ultimately less threatening than the mentalities ingrained in tense farm boys in the eerily stirring work in Victor Romao’s lasted exhibit. Romao, a native of rural southwestern Ontario, received...
UWindsor resident writing professional Marty Gervais awarded City of Windsor’s new honours Josh Kolm ARTS EDITOR Marty Gervais— University of Windsor resident writing professional, independent publisher, columnist and author with more than 40 years of professional experience— has been named Windsor’s first poet laureate. After an application and nomination procedure...
GG Award winning The Sisters Brothers subtley alters conventions of Western characterization Josh Kolm ARTS EDITOR atrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers has been turning heads since its release, well before it was rightfully honoured with this year’s Governor General’s Award for Fiction. A shockingly funny Western, DeWitt treats the language...
Tita Kyrtsakas LANCE WRITER he University Players shine once again in their third show of the season, Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart. This melancholic, tragic comedy reflects the aching effects of life’s torturous troubles on the heart, but Henley’s intermittent witty banter provides bouts of comic relief and when...
