In partnership with the City of St. Catharines, Brock University has initiated a project to bring a performing arts centre to the city's downtown core. The proposed Niagara Centre for the Arts stems from Brock's need to expand and possibly relocate its School of Fine and Performing Arts, as well as the city's desire for a new cultural attraction as part of its downtown revitalization project.
After over a year in planning, Rob Elliott's latest exhibit, Hatchery, has become a two-faced, Billy Bass-filled fishing hut, which cleverly mocks contemporary societies environmental ignorance. Simply put, it is an exhibit worth checking out. As you walk around the sport fishing-style hut set up in the Niagara Artists' Centre (NAC), you will see a series of large, grainy, backlit pictures of sport fishermen from '60s brochures.
Playmaker is one of St. Catharines' oldest and hardest working bands. In the past five years, they have toured in multiple continents and played a variety of musical styles. Lead by vocalist and guitarist Chris Barry from Liverpool, England, Playmaker began in St.
This week, we are finally giving props to the business and accounting students who are asked to don professional office attire as part of their program while the rest of the school wears their broken-in denim. Our Brock Boy Jason represents the best of the best when it comes to boys in suits, going above and beyond the required shirt, jacket and tie, incorporating bold colour choices, a great double windsor knot, and even cufflinks.
On Feb. 3, BUFS offers up a sweet alternative to Superbowl Sunday with The Jane Austen Book Club. Writer Robin Swicord (Memoirs of a Geisha, Practical Magic, Little Women) takes her first crack at directing with this adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler's best-selling novel of the same name.
Black Mountain In the Future Holy shit. Little could have convinced me that classic rock could make a comeback without the gloss of a band like Wolfmother (sorry guys, I still love you) or the music-by-numbers approach of Jet, but Black Mountain seem to have made it happen.
Have you ever seen that episode of Full House where Jessie and the Rippers become hugely popular in Japan, and then go there to play a concert? The one where, I think, Uncle Jessie gets all hot-headed and ego-driven only to find that his fame is short lived and he must return to this humble life in the Tanner household? Well, Cheap Trick's At Budokan is most likely the inspiration for that episode - albeit, without the family drama and gorgeous hair.
