CategoryArts & Culture

Online Fraud – What the Facbook?!

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MAXIMILIAN PATERSON
<Arts and Culture Editor>
While lounging on the brand new couch in the Obiter office I glanced down at my phone and found that I had a missed call and a new voicemail message.  The message was from my sister, and it turned out that she had some very strange information for me. “

“Girls” Like Us

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KAROLINA WISNIEWSKI
<Opinions Editor>
There is no shortage of articles berating HBO’s Girls for being racist, elitist, whiney, smug and generally exemplifying all that is wrong with Generation Y. Unsurprisingly enough, many critiques of the series are interwoven with personal attacks on Lena Dunham.

Theatre Review: A Rare Mix of Dance for Beginners

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QUINN HARRIS, HILARY FENDER, SPENCER BAILEY
<Contributors> 
For their second trip to the theatre on March 8th, your mock trial producers began the night with a candlelit dinner at La Palette ending at Spencer Bailey’s apartment with his cat Boston, some whiskey, cheddar and onion flavoured chips, and shreds of na’an bread.

Alternative Ways to “Learn” the Law: Trial Advocacy

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RICARDO GOLEC
<Website Editor>
I really like procrastinating. A lot. In fact, I’m doing it right now. In order to feel less bad about it, I’ve endeavoured this year to try to rationalize my procrastination by way of increasingly hare-brained schemes to “learn” by not learning. Obviously I’ve had varying degrees of success.

War Horse: A Rousing Gallop from Book to Stage

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TRAVIS WEAGANT
<Co-Editor-in-Chief> 
Children often find war difficult to understand, so we explain it to them by simplifying it into a “good vs. evil” narrative where two camps hate each other so much they want to kill each other.  You can imagine then, how much more difficult it is to explain the more complicated aspects of armed conflict

Halloween Movie Guide: SPOOKTACULAR!

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MAX PATERSON
<Arts & Culture Editor>
It’s that time of year again, the time we dust off those “sexy” [fill in anything here] costumes, call up all of our ‘non-law’ friends, and go out for one last big night before the realities of assignments, papers and pre-exam note compiling begins.

Review: Arthur Miller’s The Crucible

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SPENCER BAILEY, QUINN HARRIS, & HILARY FENDER <Contributors> On the evening of Nuit Blanche, your Mock Trial producers took a trip down to the charming distillery district to Soulpepper Theatre, one of Toronto’s most reliable theatres for classic productions. The show was Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the same playwright who penned Death of a Salesman. This play was written...

A Little Sheep Told Me: The Fashion of Gift-Giving

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ANGIE SHEEP <Staff Writer> Last Friday, a fellow Ozzie (who will remain unnamed) stumbled upon me in a bit of a panic. He had just remembered that his girlfriend’s birthday was in two days, and he had not bought a present. Before you pass judgment, I should mention that they have been dating for four years. Now you can judge away. I’m pretty sure her birthday fell on the same day each of...

Taking a Bite out of Your Budget

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CASS DA RE
<Features Editor>
Have you been to Buca lately? What about Splendido, Scaramouche, Sotto Sotto, Scarpetta or Mistura? What do you mean you haven’t been to the most expensive Italian restaurants in Toronto lately? The “price of textbooks” and “tuition” you say? To that I say: I couldn’t agree more.

The Mind of Noel Fielding: Luxury Comedy

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MAX PATERSON <Arts & Culture Editor> You may or may not have heard of him, but Noel Fielding is a giant cultural icon in the UK. He is smooth, quirky, witty, outrageously fashionable, and he could quite possibly be the most insane man on television. Fielding is best known for his show The Mighty Boosh, but has since moved on from to create a 22-minute creative mess called Noel...

Festival Review: “RIOTFEST” Lived Up to Its Name

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To begin, the music festival was called “Riotfest”. With a name like that, It’s hard not to draw up visions of crusty punks and black clad anarchists throwing garbage cans through windows and burning copies of the Constitution. In terms of the lineup, it was the musical equivalent of that vision. However, since Riotfest was held on a Sunday, the crowd reacted more like “Hungover-fest”.

TIFF Review: Seven Psychopaths

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MAX PATERSON <Arts & Culture Editor> As TIFF progresses and the stars drift in and out of the Toronto social scene, it was hard for the Obiter to ignore a chance to rub knuckles with Hollywood’s finest. We were fortunate enough to be invited to the premiere of Seven Psychopaths, the new feature by writer/director Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Six Shooter). Although, it was amusing to...

A Not-So-Ordinary Recycling Project

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Angie Sheep <Contributor> The summer may be vanishing before our eyes and glowing tanned skin, but it leaves behind something untouched: its wardrobe. Oh if only it could take that away with it too and let fall deliver its spectacular fashions! But if you’re like me – a poor law student with only a few cents to spend on the luxury of clothing – then you have to make do...

TIFF Review: Comrade Kim Goes Flying

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NANCY SITU <Senior Editor-in-Chief> It’s not every day that a Western-financed North Korean fiction feature shows in a Yonge-Dundas theatre on a breezy Tuesday night. It’s not even every day that North Korean fiction films can be Western-financed. In fact, Comrade Kim Goes Flying was the first ever. The “light-hearted romantic comedy” is about a perky young Korean coal miner/construction...

It’s TIFF Time, What Are You Going To See?!

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MAX PATERSON <Arts/Culture Editor> This time every year Toronto is invaded by some of the world’s best filmmakers and brightest stars, as people pour into the city for the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). For TIFF newbies, selecting the movies you want to see, long lines, confusing schedules, odd show times, and unbuttered popcorn, can all provide for a unpleasant...

Osheaga 2012: “Hotter Than a Hog in Heat”

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KAROLINA WISNIEWSKI <Opinions Editor> All Photos by Rob Noehammer Editor’s Note: The Obiter Dicta doesn’t run in the summer but we couldn’t resist sending Karolina off to Montreal to cover what was perhaps the most well-attended Osheaga ever. Partially a consequence of its exponential surge in popularity within the last year, Osheaga 2012 can best be characterized by a...

Hardcore Stress Removal

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WAX FATERSON <Contributor> We all have our ways of coping with law school. I know a girl that bakes to shake away her stress, I know a guy who crawls under his bed when he’s overwhelmed with reading, and I know handfuls of people that cry in the shower during exams. My way of coping with academic stress is to go to hardcore shows. To the uninformed person, hardcore shows may sound like the...

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