By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor
June 15, 2010

Every city has its claim to fame—Windsor is the home of the Chrysler Minivan, Leamington is the tomato capital of Canada, and Cincinnati, Ohio is home to America’s largest unfinished subway system.
Cincinnati’s defunct subway is examined in a new film, Cincinnati’s Abandoned Subway, an hour-long documentary developed by Paige E. Malott and Leland Schuler of Time Bonus Productions.
The subway was planned to be a 16 mile rapid transit loop around the city, approved in 1916, to accommodate the growing industry and population in the area. Construction on the $6 million project took place from 1919 to 1928, but distractions continually fell upon the city—two World Wars, the depression, and lowering gas prices among them—causing construction delays. Many are under the impression that the project failed due to poor planning, but it was a change in administration and their push to remove the projects of the old administration that saw the ultimate demise of the project. >>

By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor

June 15, 2010

Some bands are more adventurous than others, and for a band going through a drastic member change-up to take on an epic 32-song double album as a starting project, they’re either crazy or really, really good. In the case of Winnipeg’s the Paperbacks, it’s both.
Before working on their new album, Lit From Within, the band changed up their membership quite drastically. The new dynamic, of course, was a good thing.
“We changed a lot of members in the band just beforehand, so there was a lot of getting used to working with new people and enjoying that experience as well,” explained the Paperbacks’ vocalist Doug McLean.
At the same time the Paperbacks were recording Lit From Within, they were also playing together frequently, giving them more time with each other.
“It grew quite organically because we had a chance to build new material with those people and include everyone in all the aspects of it,” said McLean. >>

By Matthew A. Terry
Lance Writer
June 15, 2010

Art throughout the ages has explored and exploited two things—animals and religion. While these topics are clichéd, it is still possible to explore them without seeming tired and common. Kingsville native and long-time Artcite alumnus Ed Janzen attempts to draw connections between dogs, man, and religion and explores metaphor through his new exhibit Good Dog Bad Dog, which opened June 4 at Artcite.
Janzen had been planning out the show for the past month, but had been thinking of it for a lot longer than that. “I thought of doing a dog show for about eight years now,” said Janzen.
Three pieces of artwork—a broken plaster Milk-Bone dog treat that spills projected biblical text onto the wall, a fibreglass Milk-Bone cross hung over a video montage of a man feeding dogs, and a series of rear-projected images inside a doghouse door of a man curled up—compose the exhibit. Each of the pieces explores a different aspect of humanity and our relationships with both religion and each other.
“Dogs possess some of the best and worst qualities of humans,” said Janzen. “They share one of the closest relationships with humans.”>>