Category: Arts & Culture

  • They play video games so you don’t have to

    They play video games so you don’t have to

    An NYPD detective chases his mark through a parking garage, exchanging fire with henchmen hired by B.B. Hensley, the man who killed the detective’s family. About to turn a corner, he stops and takes cover. A van with two mounted machine guns fires wildly at him. A car honks its horn as it passes between…

  • Electoral Ward Project: On Covering Ward 3

    In our New Media class we have been busy interviewing city councillors about the upcoming municipal election. I’ve been documenting everything that happens behind the scenes. Lately, I’ve heard from my classmates that it’s hard find locals to talk about their councillor. Sarah Rohoman and Asymina Kantorowicz ventured twice into Ward 3 but left empty…

  • More laughs in London not a Bad Idea

    More laughs in London not a Bad Idea

    A man with a slim build, long blond hair and a full beard took the stage at London’s Roxbury Pub and Grill last year. He grabbed the microphone in front of a brick wall with an Alexander Keith’s logo painted on it and said the first joke of his career. “You guys can probably tell…

  • Getting medieval in the Shire of Trinovantia Nova

    Getting medieval in the Shire of Trinovantia Nova

    It’s a Thursday night and a couple rides a city bus, swords in hand, on their way to London’s Parkwood Hospital. Inside the hospital, the couple heads to the bottom floor and enters a large room down a hallway.  Inside, men and women, young and old, are suiting up in protective armour. The 20 people…