Boutari and Bold Colours: A Love Story
Local artist Steph Boutari is being paid to make art in public places, but that wasn’t always the case. She is the woman behind some of the best and most badass...
Arts
Joanna Rickert Hall on a Waterloo You Never Knew
In 1869, the Waterloo County House of Industry and Refuge opened its doors and admitted its first “inmate.” The suspiciously named institution was one of the fi...
New Concert Series Comes to Emmanuel United Church
Emmanuel United Church in uptown Waterloo has recently created a concert series in order to entertain and encourage the Waterloo community to invest in emerging...
The Todd Donald Show Brings Good Chats over Good Coffee
For over a decade, Todd Donald has worked to make his voice heard in Waterloo Region. Now, as the host of the local podcast, The Coffeehouse Crowd, Donald is re...
Local Author Follows his “Dreams”
Given his curiosity and love for writing and fantasy literature, it’s no wonder Kitchener-Waterloo based author Wesley Butler was able to self-publish his first...
Healing Through Words with Local Poet, J. Drews
Last November, 24-year-old Waterloo Region resident Jennifer Drews, also known as J. Drews, published her first book of poetry These (Transitional) Words. The b...
Getting Spooky with Filmmaker Torin Langen
Kitchener-Waterloo based filmmaker Torin Langen, best known for horror films 3 Dead Trick or Treaters and Offerings, admitted that his interest in film all star...
A Live Show in a Living Room
It’s a brutally humid Monday in July. Roommates Mike Sharp and Jacob Dickie are sweating it out in the dining room of one of the Region’s emerging clandestine m...
Open Conversations with Dear Vagina
Kitchener’s Taylor Devalk likes open aired conversations about vaginas, did you know? If you go to dearvaginaa.com, you’ll see a lot of her doing it, and other...
Straight Outta Kitchener: Local Rapper Receives Grant
Local hip-hop musician, Sam Nabi, recently received a grant from the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund to produce and promote his upcoming album, tentatively titled ...