Push showcases super human powers By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor
February 4, 2009 Clairvoyant super powers abound in the new Paul McGuigan film Push, starring Chris Evans, Camilla Belle, and Dakota Fanning.
 Push, which opens Feb. 6, focuses on a group of young American expatriates who have telekinetic, telepathic, and clairvoyant powers. The group is hiding in Hong Kong from Division, a U.S. government agency. They seek out to find the only woman, Kira Hudson (Belle), who has ever escaped from Division, since she is their only way out.
The story follows Nick Grant (Evans) a second-generation Mover (telekinetic) and Cassie Holms (Fanning), a Watcher who has visions of the future. >> | UPlayers' Widows serves as a timely reminder By Burton Taylor
Lance Writer February 4, 2009 This week marks the opening of the excellent production of “Widows,” a play by Ariel Dorfman.
 “Widows” opens on a solitary figure sitting by the river, and who is as seemingly rooted to the place as the trees or bushes around her. This is Sophia Fuentes (Carolyn Lawrence). Her husband, her father, and her sons have all vanished.
She isn’t alone in this loss. Many of the women have also lost loved ones. Everyone tacitly knows that it was the military that took them, but none can safely say so and none know whether their loved ones still live or are long dead. >>  | | Campus Kiss | | The Tree Streets: on the outside looking in By Josh Kolm
Lance Writer February 4, 2009 Coming from Sarnia to Windsor, a place where bands are quick to praise the virtues of its music scene, The Tree Streets can’t help but note how often they feel like they’re on the outside looking in.
 “Sometimes we feel like, because we’re not from Windsor, we’re not part of the music ‘clique’ that we see in the city,” said lead singer and bass player Dave Russell. “Sometimes we’re the outsiders.”
That statement is hard to compute for those of us from the city who are used to musicians being excessively supportive of each other. Perhaps it can, at times, lead to an impenetrable group dynamic. What The Tree Streets prove is that success comes when you are honest about what is important to your music finding its place.
“We have found the bands in the city with sounds that complement ours,” said guitarist Brenden “Frase” Fraser. “There is certainly support for live, independent music in Windsor. We’re fortunate to have venues that are totally outfitted for bands like us to play.” >> |
