Arts

The second annual Glebe’s Got Flavour festival, which showcases live local bands as well as extreme sports competitions, will take place in the Glebe’s Central Park Sept. 10-12.

Glebe’s Got Flavour is a replacement for Dancing in the Street, another festival that ended last year, and runs for a full weekend.

The festival begins at 5 p.m. Sept. 10 with a showing of the movie Hook. Sept. 11 and 12 will feature live bands, skateboarding and BMX competitions, in addition to other activities for kids, and a beer garden for adults.

Have you ever had the sense that someone is always watching you? That’s how Toronto’s indie pop band The Coast said they felt as they toured around Canada with their debut album Expatriate, having noticed that in nearly every town there was some part of it named after the Queen.

This was the inspiration behind the title of their new album Queen Cities, according to guitarist and keyboardist Ian Fosbery. The album will be hitting stores Sept. 14.

The band recently toured Canada, the United States and Europe.

The folk-rockers from Repentigny, Que., concluded a two-year world tour Monday night at the Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival.

Attendance was hampered by a steady, soaking rain which, like a gift from the concert gods, suddenly ended 15 minutes before showtime. As a result Les Cowboys performed not in front of tens of thousands of festival goers but rather 1,000 or so diehard fans.

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.”