Laurentian University's English Student Newspaper
★★★★☆ By Nicholas Ntaganda, Columnist If film directing truly is, as Joel Coen once put it, all about “tone management”, then a case could be made that Bong Joon-Ho is the finest director working in the medium today. Bong’s ability to orchestrate sudden fluctuations in tone throughout his films – and[…]
By Mackenzie MacDonald, Contributor While the idea of textbooks, early mornings, and essays may not excite those returning to school in September, the SGA executive team for the 2017-2018 academic year at Laurentian are promising their students a Welcome Week to remember. This year’s SGA Welcome Week is going to[…]
By Jessica Robinson, Editor-in-Chief On Sunday, September 4, the SGA hosted a 12-hour concert-and-carnival bash that featured major performances by Canadian talent Tyler Shaw and Coleman Hell. In the spirit of Welcome Week, we first touched based with Rendezvous headliners Tyler Shaw and Coleman Hell by asking about their own[…]
By Timothy Kraft, For The Lambda On Feb 25, Enactus Laurentian hosted its first annual Auction Fundraiser and Comedy Show in front of a packed house. Up for auction were a total of sixteen packages supplied by Enactus Laurentian and various local businesses. “The fundraiser allowed us to raise over[…]
Tina Siegel, CKLU For the Lambda I’ve started to pride myself on the haphazard way I choose albums to review. In this case, it was my affection for modal verbs that did it. Ought is entirely new to me, but I confess to cheating a little – I read a few[…]
By Tina Siegel, CKLU for the Lambda It’s been a busy two years for Madeline Merlo. The young British Columbia native released her debut EP – called Madeline Merlo – in 2014, spent the summer doing a video series for CMT, and is now wrapping up a tour. Merlo calls[…]
By Emmalie Tomini, for the Lambda Although we’re only two months into the school year, Laurentian students seem to be settling into the fall term in style. For many students, this may even be the first time free of the knee-high stockings and sweater vests that school uniforms require – now,[…]
By Tina Siegel, CKLU for the Lambda I’ll start this review with a confession: I’d never heard Murder Murder’s music before writing this review. I’d heard of them, of course. But I couldn’t have picked one of their songs out of a top ten line-up until three days ago. You see, nobody[…]
By Jessica Pugliese, for the Lambda The first show of the Thorneloe University’s 2015-16 theatre season ran five nights in September, and broke down the walls of conventional theatre. Drag Queens on Trial is a dramatic comedy that follows the lives of three fabulous drag queens as they reveal their[…]
By Jessica Robinson, Staff Reporter Half an hour before he steps in front of the crowd at Laurentian University’s Welcome Back frosh concert, Shawn Hook is sitting on a table in the Bahnuk Lounge directly overlooking the main stage, running a quick vocal warm up. The crowd is gathering, the[…]