by Selina Renfrow
With a decade firmly under its belt, the Alberta College of Art and Design’s annual ArtaWEARness showcase shows no sign of slowing down its momentum.
For this year’s event, the ACAD Students’ Association held the wearable art fashion show for two nights at the end of February. With 16 senior art students involved, audiences [...]

For four weeks every January, the High Performance Rodeo ropes in dozens of international and local artists for a
festival that caters to the eyes, ears and hearts of artistically-minded Calgarians. Nothing short of the weird and wacky is deemed worthy of taking over the downtown core, and several of the theatrical productions and musical performances [...]

Walking into Bushido Tattoo on 17th Ave, one is inundated with the sound of buzzing tattoo guns at work, and the cheerful banter of the staff.
Aside from the shop’s clean presentation and the range of skills found in the artists it houses, it is the atmosphere that draws in an almost constant stream of customers.
“I [...]

“I don’t think I’d ever want to do that.”
That’s how Ryan Guldemond responded when asked to de­scribe his music. The lead sing­er, guitarist and songwriter for Mother Mother clearly didn’t want to define his art, which is understandable…even respect­able.
However, this past year has been such a whirlwind for the Vancouver five-piece — releas­ing the critically-acclaimed [...]

If you’re one of those “macho men” — you know the kind, with the brutish demeanor and the urge to high-five and/or fist bump every passing Joe six-pack you run into who might have gotten drunk on Jagerbombs with you one night at the club while scoping out the plastic blondes with silicone-injected tits and [...]

Festival programmer shares her picks for this year’s must see films
I Killed My Mother
Monday, Sept. 28 @ 7 p.m. – The Plaza
Writer/ producer/director Xavier Dolan’s semi-autobiographical feature debut cleaned up at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, picking up the CICAE Award, the Prix Regards Jeune, and the SACD Prize. The story, about an intense [...]

Photographer Lindsay Stewart immersed herself in all that is Factory Party 6. From the freaky art and attention-grabbing fashion to the performances by Japanther and Andrew WK, The Reflector brings you these photos:

To read more about the fashion at Factory Party click here.

While some of you may have ventured out on Tuesday to the soft-opening of Sled Island ‘09, (Loads of Twitter posts suggest the 3rd annual Poster Show at ArtLife was awesome!) there’s no denying that the real action gets underway Wednesday night. Here is the first of four Daily Guides to Sled Island so you [...]

It’s quite apparent that the Factory Party series has outlived its 15 minutes of fame. The sixth installation has once again been re-worked to bring something new while remaining true to its ideals. It may seem odd to some that FP6 is being held on a Wednesday, and a $5 increase in ticket price isn’t [...]

In only two years, Sled Island has firmly established itself as Calgary’s coolest summer festival, a mini version of Texas’s South by Southwest festival that balances music, art, and film from both local and international talents, running the gamut from up-and-coming to critically and commercially established.
Starting on June 24, the madness will descend once again [...]