MARIE PARK <Layout Editor> As night fell upon the streets of Toronto on October 5, 2013, hundreds of thousands congregated to experience Nuit Blanche. Though many were artists in their own right, many were also members the general public with a topical understanding and awareness of modern art. Many such individuals may know of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, but may shake their head when...
DAN MOWAT-ROSE & LUKE JOHNSTON <Contributors> Round 2. We’re back with another food pick for you, Osgoode. Venue: Leslieville Pumps – 929 Queen Street East Cuisine: Smokehouse BBQ/Corner Store Food: Luke: Hickory Smoked Chicken Thigh Sandwich $7.75 & Bacon Infused Corn Fritters $4; Dan: Southern Style Beef Brisket Sandwich $7.75 & Coleslaw $3; Shared: Cornbread $3...
DAN MOWAT-ROSE & LUKE JOHNSTON
<Contributors>
This new column will document two 3L students’ explorations in the Toronto food scene, with an eye to student budget concerns, good eating, and a exposure to a broad range of culinary experiences.
KAROLINA WISNIEWSKI
<Editor-in-Chief>
It’s that time again, Ozzies. The initial start-of-the-new-academic-year enthusiasm is slowly but unmistakably ebbing.
ANGIE SHEEP
<Arts & Culture Editor>
As we get used to the pace of law school (again) for the next few weeks, all of us will most likely encounter some hectic mornings (especially those not lucky enough to avoid the early classes)
KAROLINA WISNIEWSKI
<Editor-in-Chief >
Though I profess no expertise in the realm of fashion (I instead defer to our resident fashionista, Angie Sheep)
Happy New Year! School year, of course. Hopefully you have all had a wonderful break and are refreshed for another exciting term. For those of you entering Osgoode’s halls for the first time, welcome and thank you for picking up the very first 2013/2014 Obiter issue. The Game of Thrones series seems to have captivated the entire globe. During my travels this summer, I encountered GoT fans...
ANGIE SHEEP
<Staff Writer>
If you were too busy with summary-building to catch all the highlights of Toronto Fashion Week, read about the dominating trends here!
MAXIMILIAN PATERSON
<Arts & Culture Editor>
For those of you who are looking for a new stupid internet video fix now that those “Harlem Shake” videos have moved from the amusing category to the annoying category, there is a new trend you should take a look at: it’s called Gallon Smashing.
Maximilian Paterson
<Arts & Culture Editor>
For those of you fortunate enough to score a ticket to Mock Trial (and the even more fortunate of you who scored a ticket to the proceeding pub night), you were treated to an entertaining romp of musical numbers, videos, comedy, dance, and mance.
ANGIE SHEEP
<Staff Writer>
With a shiny New Year comes shiny new clothes, and this year is no different. Runaways and fashion magazines everywhere have revealed the new looks of 2013 and distinguished the absolute must-have items amongst them.
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. “
TRAVIS WEAGANT
<Editor-In-Chief>
On January 11, some of my wisdom was lost, which I can only assume will make me more unreasonable. It was taken directly out of my jaw. Being subsequently barred from physical exertion for a few days, I took to the couch, where painkillers and movies awaited.
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.
Aries
March 21 – April 19
You will feel doubt in the next two weeks, but don’t fret, this is merely a formality for epiphany.
MAXIMILIAN PATERSON
<Arts and Culture Editor>
In order to escape boring family commitments this holiday season, The Obiter Arts + Culture department sent out a team of writers to cover the most exciting cinematic release of the past few weeks, Les Miserables.
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.
MAXIMILIAN PATERSON
<Arts & Culture Editor>
Are you stressed yet?! Well, you will be! That’s right, the semester is almost over and all that studying and note compiling you haven’t done since the first week of September has now come to bite you in the brain.
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.
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
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.
NADIA GUO
<News Editor>
Following a fairly decadent Friday night out at the Hoxton to catch the Flight Facilities’ set, I was glad I had something more low-key planned for Saturday: I had a ticket to see Chan Marshall, better known by her stage name, Cat Power.
TRAVIS WEAGANT
<Editor-in-Chief>
I first saw singer-songwriter Andrew O’Brien in February 2011 as part of Canadian Music Week, right here in Toronto, and I’ve made a point not to miss him ever since. I saw him again last fall at the Free Times Café on College St, and on September 28, he returned to Free Times in fine form.
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...
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...