By Han A. Larkin
Lance Writer
January 27, 2010

When campus radio station CJAM made their big move up the dial to 99.1 FM last March, they thought their troubles would be over.
The CRTC granted the station protected status and CJAM’s broadcast signal grew stronger.
What they didn’t anticipate, however, was that they would be competing against themselves for listeners.
The station currently occupying CJAM’s old 91.5 FM signal, Detroit’s premiere Christian station CJESUS FM, is taking over CJAM’s audience.
Eager to take advantage of the situation and pad their resumes once again, Vice President University Affairs Robert Woodrich and UWindsor’s Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) coordinator Madeline MacIsaac revived their Save CJAM Facebook campaign.
“With all the different stations and megahertz and all that out there, students were confused about where to find our school’s beloved station on the dial,” said Woodrich, who does not volunteer at the station or have any affiliation with it, but just kind of showed up, so we interviewed him.
“Now they’re listening to CJESUS. It’s difficult to tell the difference sometimes since they share the same amount of awkward banter,” admitted Woodrich. “This is why we revived the campaign.” >>

By Dick Shevdale
Lance Writer

January 27, 2010

After winning the title of CBC Radio 3’s Best Live Music Venue in Canada last year, Windsor’s Phog Lounge was suddenly stripped of its award last week by visiting CBC representatives.
Their surprise visit and shocking allegations of voter fraud was described by friends of Phog as a bewildering, classless act.
“I can’t believe it,” says long-time patron of Phog, Stephen Hargreaves.
“First we were angry, almost hostile. But now we’re just crushed. It’s been like a mortuary around here,” he continued.
In the bar, the mood was considerably bleak. Once a lively place, the little watering hole on University Ave. has become very quiet save for the droning, moody chords of a Godspeed You Black Emperor CD on repeat.
The longer one stayed in the bar, the more fitting Hargreaves’ mortuary comparison became.
In a moving display of sympathy, wave after wave of patrons filtered in and out of the bar to offer their condolences. Most tried their best to comfort Tom Lucier, Phog co-owner, who remained unresponsive and distant. There was word he was under heavy sedation.
Early on, there were talks of rallying a counter-strike in the way of protests and petitions.
Later, steady alcohol consumption sparked talks of rioting, breaking into Windsor’s CBC building to demand the title back.>>

By J. Kyle LeBel
Lance Writer
January 27, 2010

Sometimes a film becomes a revered hit instantaneously, whereas other films must wait years, or even decades, to find a place in the heart of cinephiles everywhere.

It took Troll 2 nearly two decades to gain the reverence it so dearly deserves, but, it’s better late than never.
There is a part one to the Troll series, but that film is irrelevant. Only Troll 2 matters, for Troll 2 took it to the next level, and managed to break new ground within the cinematic medium.
Directed by Drake Floyd (a.k.a. Claudio Fragasso), who also made the astounding film Zombie 4: After Death, Troll 2 demonstrates how a director can have such firm confidence in the material given, that Fragasso’s inability to speak English while working on an English-language film is irrelevant.
Floyd/Fragasso, along with the cast and crew, know they have a masterpiece in their hands.
So, the language barrier between an Italian-speaking crew and an English-speaking cast need not matter, because Fragasso and co-scribe Rossella Drudi’s script is strong enough to be followed word for word.
The thespians within Troll 2 give complete respect to their dialogue, allowing for insightful lines like “they’re eating her, and then they’re going to eat me!” resonate with such fervour.
Much regards must be sent to the main actor Michael Stephenson, who was only 10 years-old when making the film.
The demands for his character, the naïve and impressionable Joshua Waits, required much mental stamina, and Stephenson definitely meets this challenge head-on. >>