NEWS

Meet Carleton’s “niche internet microcelebrities”

The pandemic era of university life at Carleton University has been defined by an influx of quirky Instagram accounts targeting students, which seem to...

OPINION

Do NOT try this at home: Dangerous and weird TikTok trends

I was in middle school when I tried the Kylie Jenner lip challenge. After watching my favourite influencers suck the air out of a...

I spent 24 hours in a bagel shop. Here’s what I learned.

“You have to go to Kettleman’s.”  When I moved to Ottawa for my undergrad in 2019, one of the first restaurant recommendations I received from...

The longest top-row word that can be typed on a typewriter is 'rupturewort', a type of plant, and Peru is the only country that can be typed on one row of a keyboard.

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SPORTS

Tennis matchmaking app fosters love of the game

Meet Rankd, the tennis matchmaking app for lovers of the game. Rankd Tennis North America aims to create matches for tennis players.

ARTS

‘Beth-Anne’ creatives horse around at undercurrents festival

For Beth-Anne, the best way to work up the confidence to ask out her crush is to turn herself into a horse. This fast-paced,...

Carleton alumna embraces ‘weirdness and uniqueness’ with Oddball Art

For Ottawa-based abstract artist Emma Maddock, art is all about presenting her unique reflections to the world. She draws and paints abstract art pieces...

LATEST ARTICLES

NAC gets hit by Elephant Wake

Joey Tremblay’s clearest memory of his childhood in a diminishing western- Canadian French town is of the paper-mache elephant his grandmother made, being maliciously run over by a group from a neighbouring English town.

The incident had a profound effect on the young Tremblay who considers it the end of his childhood and the moment of his loss of innocence.

But it inspired An Elephant Memory, an autobiographical story that Tremblay adapted into the fictitious play Elephant Wake in which he also stars.

Gallery 101 consumed by sinful pride

The sin of pride will be consuming Gallery 101 in the Glebe during their seven-year fundraiser coming up in a little over a month, but an assistant with the facility said they should have something to be proud of considering the artist-run space is still going after 30 years in Ottawa.

Film Review: This Is it!

This Is It
Kenny Ortega
Sony Pictures


3/5

Michael Jackson’s This Is It, a tribute film featuring rehearsal footage for the King of Pop’s planned concert tour (cancelled due to his sudden death on June 25) isn’t “Bad,” but it’s certainly not a “Thriller” either.

Some of the footage is remarkable, but for one of the grandest and most ambitious musical icons of our time, it’s debatable whether Jackson would’ve wanted us to see these works in progress.

Carleton paints partnership with NGC

If you are like many students, you have been planning a trip to the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) on a Thursday ever since you heard admission is free after 5 p.m. but you were never able to find the time to get downtown before 8 p.m.

Well now you’re in luck.

Carleton and the NGC have partnered to offer Carleton students free admission from now until June 30, 2010 upon presentation of your student card.

Students will have access to the permanent collection as well as special exhibits. 

Concert Review: Metric

Metric
Ottawa Civic Centre
October 19, 2009


4/5 Stars

“Steph, Kevin wants to know if you’ll marry him.”

After The Stills vocalist Tim Fletcher made that announcement to a pair of soon-to-be newlyweds in the audience, you knew there was magic in the air.

Starting and finishing their show with two Oceans Will Rise tracks in “I’m With You” and the radio hit “Being Here,” The Stills proved to be a worthy opener.

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