By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor
November 11, 2009

Possibly best known for bleeding roses at his many live performances, Hamilton’s Wax Mannequin is stopping in Windsor yet again.
Chris Adeney, a.k.a. Wax Mannequin, has been touring with a full band, an exciting experience for him. “I’m finally at the stage where I can afford to bring a group of folks on the road. Performing solo is still important to me, but right now I’m trying to reproduce the fullness of my new record in a live setting,” said Adeney.
His shows are theatrical, a performance in the truest sense and totally engaging for the audience. While his live shows have been getting crazier, so too has life offstage, especially while on the road.
Not only did Adeney’s van break down out west (it made a swift recovery, however), he also lost a drummer.
“I was traveling with a drummer who is not exactly a people person, and doesn’t tour well. He ended up flying home without notice four dates before the end of the tour,” explained Adeney, who ended up hiring a pickup drummer, one who travels well, for the remaining shows and cites him as someone he will keep working with. >>

By Alanna Magri
Lance Writer

November 11, 2009

Finger 11 guitarists James Black and Rick Jackett have joined forces to create a side project displaying a side of them we've never seen before: country.
Blackie Jackett Jr.’s debut album, Whisky and Tears, was released in August and gave us 14 songs about whisky, weed, women, and just not giving a shit.
In a recent interview with The Lance, Jackett spoke about how the band got started, what their future plans are, and answered the question that we’re all pondering: Why country?
It began back when Finger 11 was writing their self-titled album and Black and Jackett found themselves needing some much-needed relief from the studio.
“We just started writing these country songs sort of as a joke, and it was just something that was totally not like Finger 11. Still music, but it’s something that we did not take seriously at all,” said Jackett. “It is something that happened really naturally, we didn’t even discuss it until it was done.”
This casual songwriting has been floating around for two years without anyone but BJJ knowing about it. >>

By Jouvon M. Evans
Lance Writer
November 11, 2009

In Douglas Coupland’s new book, Generation A, he sets out to do what he does best in all of his other books—encapsulating a moment in an amorphous world from a Canadian viewpoint.

In a near future brought to its knees by a single extinction, five men and women from all over the world are stung by an extinct insect: a bee.
And if you think about it, it is scary how critical these pollinating, honey producing, diligent little creatures are despite humanity being determined to procrastinate until the last minute on any measures to avoid the deterioration of our planet.
Without them many of our crops are wiped out, flowers stop blooming, and people on diets will have to stop convincing themselves that Stevia tastes anything like real sugar.
This near future apocalyptic world stemming from minor, seemingly inconsequential, events is a road already well traveled in literature.
This book focuses on storytelling, becoming a snapshot of 21st century digital use in real time. >>