Ken Pham, community organizer wants to bring live music back to Kensington
COVID-19, Entertainment
Musicians Continue To Explore Online Performance in The Post-COVID Music Industry
Musicians perform among neon lights and fog in Athens, Greece (Unsplash/Yannis Papanastasopoulos) By Hannah Mercanti According to some musicians, the initial struggle to adapt to a fully online environment now makes for new, innovative methods of performance. According to a study from Statistics Canada, the sound recording industry suffered the least during the pandemic, yet…
COVID-19, Entertainment
How One Ottawa Musician Found Comfort and Community In New Pandemic Project
Headphones sit on top of a microphone stand (Unsplash/Paulette Wooten) By Patrick Pearson August 26, 2020. At a time when the second wave of COVID-19 was just ahead, Annika Devlin began writing a song called September, which would spawn her project Frown Line. This project gave her an outlet to channel her feelings and a…
Entertainment, Lifestyle
Tackling your toxic relationship with social media
Christopher Ott via Unsplash Social media is a great way to connect with others and an amazing creative outlet. But what are the real life effects of social media? From 2018 to 2019, it was reported that 90 per cent of Candadians from the ages of 15-34 use social media regularly. Leaving Canadian youth between…
Entertainment
The fun statistics behind the Squid Game
During the post-war poverty of South Korea’s 1960s, the dalgona, a snack has emerged. The Squid Game has increased the series of food like dalgona coffee and dalgona become a new trend for people to try. Here is an infographic about the fun statistics behind the Squid Game: