Arts

Kristina Watts knows exactly how to describe the play she stars in about an affair between a 12-year-old girl and a 40-year-old man: “It’s a love story.”

Blackbird, written in 2005 by Scottish playwright David Harrower, focuses on the meeting between a young woman, Una, and a middle-aged man, Ray, 15 years after their love affair and the guilt, self-hatred and social condemnation that surrounds them because of it.

Legions of music-loving first years crowded the asphalt beside the Fieldhouse Sept. 8 as Tokyo Police Club took to the stage and rocked Carleton’s campus.

The air was already crackling when the band arrived after a stellar performance by rapper Shad.

The Canadian hip-hop artist brought the crowd to a roar with songs like the Fresh Prince-inspired Internet sensation “The Old Prince Still Lives at Home.”

With so much information available in this day and age, it can become difficult to process it all. Which issues are the most important? Are they as simple as they seem? Does one even have time for them? Add all these things together and it becomes difficult to raise awareness for anything using a soft sell.

Sitting on the beach at Britannia Park during the Ottawa Folk Festival, Afie Jurvanen looks like he’s on holiday, not at work. The tanned and tailored musician seems
more interested in going for a swim — but who can blame him, after the year he has had.

After releasing his first full-length album, Pink Strat, under the name Bahamas, Jurvanen spent the year touring and promoting the album.