By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor
October 21, 2009

The weather doesn’t always cooperate for bands on the road, but Regina’s Rah Rah makes the best of any situation.
“Sometimes you get tired driving a lot and sleeping on peoples’ floors. It’s all a part of the same adventure,” said Rah Rah vocalist/bassist/drummer Joel Passmore.
The band is almost finished with their new album, which they hope to release in April, shortly after they come up with a title, of course. “We’ve got a list probably 60 names long, mostly just trying to make each other laugh,” Passmore said.
The new record was recorded in Montreal with Kees Dekker (Plants and Animals). The band worked in a studio with Dekker this time around as opposed to a more home-based recording session like they had for their first album, Going Steady. >>

By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor

October 21, 2009

The Rumrunners: A Prohibition Scrapbook, originally written in 1979, is celebrating its 30 year anniversary with a new and revised edition.
The bestselling book features an illustrated history of Prohibition told through photographs, political cartoons, maps, and unbelievable (but true) stories from the people who experienced it.
The book also goes over the laws in the U.S. and Canada and the loopholes in both. In Canada, only some provinces banned selling, consuming, and transporting liquor within the province. No ban existed, however, on manufacturing and exporting liquor, which is how Canadians got around Prohibition.
“Many people don’t realize that Canada had Prohibition as well as the U.S. But, we could manufacture whereas in the States, they couldn’t manufacture it. We couldn’t drink it, but we did,” said author Marty Gervais.>>

By Josh Kolm
Lance Writer
October 21, 2009

After being submitted to years of coverage in ain’t-that-weird trend stories, Zombie Walks have become a mainstream event.
Not just the goth kids from your high school, horror film fans turn up by the hundreds and have made the walks a common and expected annual phenomenon.
Since organizing a Walk three years ago to celebrate his “love of all things zombie,” Jake Witalec has been running them annually, acting as main organizer. Although he admits there isn’t much work involved.
“I am just the man who shoots the flare. Organizing an event like this requires very little. All the work revolves around preparing the costumes, rallying the troops, and making sure that every one is in good spirits and has a good time.”
In case you aren’t aware of the workings of the Zombie Walk, the general rules are pretty straightforward. More outgoing than the photogenic vampire-loving crowd, participants meet at a starting point in various levels of makeup and costumes. Then the horde stumbles in unison from place to place, groaning, requesting human flesh to feed on, and generally making a spectacle of themselves. >>