Broken City Lab: fixing a broken city By Mike Laverty
Lance Writer
March 4, 2009 Residents of Windsor and other industrial cities in North America have accepted derelict buildings and abandoned infrastructure as part of their urban landscape.  The economic crisis that has dominated our lives recently has turned these locations into ominous symbols of failure and a bleak future.
Broken City Lab is a newly formed collective of creative researchers attempting to transform these sites into positive examples of sustainability through a unique and innovative approach.
The group also focuses on social activism through addressing issues such as homelessness, environmental degradation, and unemployment. They believe that Windsor is “a city with a broken economy, broken environment, broken design, broken politics, and a broken heart” that needs to be fixed. >> | The Man of Mode: a comedy that provides more than laughs By Burton Taylor
Lance Writer March 4, 2009 “The Man of Mode” is about a man who trades love for money and for doing so, deserves neither.
 Mr. Dorimant (Kelly Penner), London’s finest debonair bachelor and lothario, has squandered his fortune in decadent idleness and lascivious conquests waged against the city’s women. Fortunately for him, the young, beautiful, and wealthy Lady Woodvill (Lisa Marie Hamalainen) has recently arrived in London from the country with the intent to marry.
However, a multitude of barriers stand between Dorimant and Woodvill’s estate, not the least of which is Dorimant’s current mistress, the Lady Loveit (Heidi Lynch).. >>  | | Campus Kiss | | AGW shows life in a northern town By Josh Kolm
Lance Writer March 4, 2009 As the southern-most city in Canada, Windsor is physically removed but nationally connected to northern Aboriginal culture.  Patrick Mahon’s “Cold Storage” exhibit and the “Burning Cold” collection deal directly with that dichotomy. Two of the first displays from the Art Gallery of Windsor in 2009, they are still available for viewing and offer an honest portrait of a part of our country that can be so hard to grasp.
Mahon’s “Cold Storage” begins with a traditional display of his work, simplistic acrylic and ink pieces hung in the halls of the AGW’s second floor. But then you turn the corner. The title piece of the exhibit, a 10-foot-high, 8’ x 8’, giant Styrofoam cooler, containing coloured glass bones on an illuminated table sits in the corner of the room.
The essence of the exhibit is the intrusion of modern life upon the northern landscape. White, be it in the background of the paintings or the subtly carved Styrofoam, is constantly imposed upon by garbage, machinery, and electric displays. >> |
