Arts

It reads like a fantasy plucked from the mind of a teenaged boy: a Playboy playmate in the role of a lingerie-wearing, revenge-seeking badass fighting back against cruel men who take advantage of women weaker than herself.

That’s the basis of Sweet Karma, a ‘70s-style rape-revenge movie by Canadian indie writer and director Andrew Thomas Hunt.

The Autumn Portrait is the epitome of a do-it-yourself band.

The Vancouver-based indie trio, who performed at Zaphod’s March 18 and at Elmdale Tavern March 23, began with a classified ad.

It all started when lead singer and guitarist Freddie Mojallal placed a notice on Craigslist looking for musicians, according to the band’s website. He was then joined by Patrick Jacobson on bass and Sean Lavoy on drums.  

If you haven’t heard of the Carleton University Architecture students’ annual film festival, you probably aren’t alone. But you are definitely missing out.

Recycling old bottle caps is a good way to help the environment, but transforming them into artwork that garners attention from the global art community takes reuse to another level.

Art lovers crammed themselves into 360 Tory Building March 13 to watch Fold Crumple Crush, a documentary about Ghanaian expatriate El Anatsui’s artwork.

The theatre was overflowing with people eager to see how Anatsui takes old, discarded bottle caps and turns them into huge metallic tapestries.