By Josh Kolm
Lance Writer
March 31, 2010

After a season that has seen the University Players shine their brightest with comedy, it is only appropriate that they close the 2009-2010 season with a unique performance of a Greek classic: Aristophanes’ “Lysistrata.”
The play centres around the women of Greece making a stand to end the brutal Peloponnesian War between the Spartans and the Athenians. Led by Lysistrata (Alexandra Johnson), the women decide to withhold sex from the warriors and leaders until they settle on a peaceful treaty.
Not exactly 300, I know. All the same, tension begins to rise, and the women are just as hard-pressed as the men to keep it in their pants, even as ambassadors and leaders struggle to the stage, moaning in agony as their erections poke out the front of their robes.
The chorus—generally a generic mass of chanters in Greek drama and a purgatory for understudies in modern adaptations—threatens to steal the show here. >>

By Alanna Magri
Lance Writer

March 31, 2010

The Peace Leeches can only be described as a downright crazy band, both to watch and to listen to. From their electronic experimental style to their wacky stage costumes and makeup, this band is sure to arouse your curiosity.
What can be hard to believe is that the complexity of their music is the result of just two people, front woman Ray Stern (vocals/lyrics, keyboard, symbol, guitar), and the man in charge of effects, Corey Schatz (guitar, bass, drum machines).
The duo came together during their high school days when they found themselves at an open mic night in their tiny town of Blenheim, Ont. They soon realized their ability to create music with each other and decided to keep jamming to see where things would go.
The Peace Leeches performed their first show in Windsor, immediately picking up fans who quickly spread the news.
After only a few years, the band already has a nice list of accomplishments. >>

By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor
March 31, 2010

Fireside Publishing House, which offers top quality children’s novels based on Canada’s leaders, is currently holding a contest to win a kids’ book writing contest.
The Toronto-area publisher will award the book publishing contract to either a university, college, or high school student (or a recent graduate within one year), who authors the best first chapter and one page outline for a historical fiction adventure novel based on Paul Martin Jr., the 21st Prime Minister of Canada.
As part of Fireside’s Leaders and Legacies series, the story begins with Martin at age 12 in the summer of 1951. Since Martin, who was born in Ottawa, spent most of his summers in Windsor, the setting of the novel will be Windsor in 1951.
Fireside publisher Roderick Benns says that all of the books in the series will feature historical figures as young amateur sleuths in some way. “Martin specifically requested a mystery crime angle and I think in any book we’re going to see crimes being committed and the protagonist having to dig down and find out a mystery of sorts, whether or not that’s more paranormal or crime fighting, that’s going to be up to the writer in each case. >>