Under the tree, under review
Dave Emrich & Kurtis Thomas
CONTRIBUTORS The Community Edition gives a low-down on top albums and books for gifting this holiday season. Album aficionado...
Anna Beard
Lighting up the ecosystem
“Art has been a lifelong pursuit in a variety of mediums,” explained White when asked how he got involved with the arts. “Communicating through art just made sense with the way I was naturally wired.”...
Bearface on Beer: Pumpkin Ales
Craftoberfest is a series of events that are being presented as an alternative to the Molson-Coors sponsored main event, and way to highlight the growing number of craft brewers in the region, and Ontario as a whole. The goal is to get us “back in touch with the region’s rich heritage” and to be “a space for our community to come together.”...
Album Review: Lowell – We Loved Her Dearly
Jamieson Cox
CCE CONTRIBUTOR Elizabeth Lowell Boland, the performer who records as Lowell, makes palpably ambitious, socially conscious music that strives...
YukYuk’s and the Walper go under the knife
Built in 1893, the Walper Terrace Hotel in Kitchener has been a mainstay of the downtown Kitchener landscape before it was even known as Kitchener. Back then, it was know as the Town of Berlin, and the hotel commonly abbreviated to just “The Walper,” was a shining architectural example of what locals were capable of. However, date that building 121 years and one will find that it could use a bit of a facelift....
From sea to cross-stitched sea
Courtesy of Made in Canada Anya Lomako
CCE CONTRIBUTOR If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of a dozen sewing machines stitching simultaneously...
Album Review: Run Coyote – Youth Haunts
Kurtis Thomas
CCE CONTRIBUTOR The word zeitgeist means ‘the spirit of the times’. Various items exist in a snapshot of an era, like Pepsi Blue in the ea...
Album Review: Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs – Gates of Hell
Dave Emrich
CCE CONTRIBUTOR You may remember Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs as the beer-soaked foursome that promised high-energy country twang to a crow...
K-W comedian rising
Stager thinks there’s a growing audience for comedy • PHOTO COURTESY BEN STAGER Dave Emrich
CCE CONTRIBUTOR It is commonly referred to as “the best medi...
Four years of A Day & A Night
Art happening in the street during A Day & A Night. • PHOTO COURTESY A Day & A Night Anya Lomako
CCE CONTRIBUTOR It’s difficult to picture Water...
Anna Beard
Anna believes in defying expectations when it comes to being a millennial that wears Raybans. She spends a lot of time wandering around town spending money she doesn’t have on things like tacos, coffee, and Moleskine notebooks. She will also walk your dog for free.