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Arab cinema comes to Western
The lights go down in the quiet screening room in the basement of the University College building at Western University. The room is empty except for Sam Khalil, a friend of hers, and a curious journalism student. “Maybe we should wait five minutes,” said Khalil, teaching assistant for Arabic 1030: Arabic for Beginners. But nobody…
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Hard metal, fast cash and easy crime
Two days before Robert Munroe took possession of his new house on Hyatt Avenue in London, it was robbed. The thieves broke in at night and made off with some valuable metal. But they didn’t take gold bars or platinum coins. They took copper. “All the copper pipes had been stripped from the house. A…
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Fundraiser to help homeless teens
Shari Fulmer recalls her husband, Steve, coming home on a cold winter day four years ago to tell her a homeless teen walked up to him at a beer store, begging for a pair of mittens. “He was so upset about it and it affected me,” said Fulmer, a real estate broker in London, who…
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London festival spotlights Canadian cinema
Toronto-based filmmakers Jason and Brett Butler wanted to capture a scene in a bakery for their latest feature, a dark comedy called Mourning Has Broken. But the bakeries they had in mind for a scene were unavailable, and since budgets for time and money were small – five days and $1,000 – they did what…