By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor
January 13, 2010

Last year brought amazing acts and due accolades to Windsor. Phog Lounge was named Best Live Music Club in Canada by CBC Radio 3, UWindsor School of Music student Chantelle Mayville was accepted to the Elardo Young Artist Program in Brugge, Belgium, and Black Moss Press turned 40.
Here are even more highlights of what turned out to be a big year for Windsor’s arts community.

January 21: Spoofing the UWSA: The Lance reveals the true back-story of the Amazing Dr. Alan Wildeman in comic form. Former UWSA president Tiffany Gooch embarks on a mall tour across North America to pursue her pop music career, while a text messaging scandal rocks the UWSA.>>

By Josh Kolm
Lance Writer

January 13, 2010

Local pride

The year 2009 saw an unparalleled level of interest and anticipation surrounding what seemed like an exceptionally high number of albums from Windsor artists.
Despite being their first full-length album, Yellow Wood’s Son of the Oppressor shows a surprising evolution in the Rideout brothers’ sound. While their first two EPs were straightforward indie releases, Oppressor is a masterwork of instrumental layering and experimentation.
Each of Johnny West’s releases from the last year are great on their own but are made all the more impressive when you try to fathom how someone could create three albums of entertainingly simplistic music over a time period that some bands can’t use to make one.>>

By J. Kyle LeBel
Lance Writer
January 13, 2010

I should start with a confession of sorts, in order to establish the aim of this article.
A true best-of list cannot be made, because frankly, I have not seen enough movies this year in order to warrant a complete list. There will inevitably be titles I will soon see, love, and have absent from a list I could have compiled at this point. In effect, a true reflection of the year’s best cannot be made. Besides, this column is titled “Vintage Vault,” and there are countless old gems I am aching to see before much of this year’s releases. So, what will follow is a subjective retrospective of the highs and lows of my movie going experiences in 2009, touching on films released in 2009, and discovered classics I finally saw in 2009. >>