Over at the Ottawa Citizen, Ken Warren has a great article about Jacob Barrette, a graphic design who put together an old school inspired jersey for the Ottawa Senators. How much better is this jersey than the Sens current third jersey? A thousand times better, that's how much! The jersey honors the Senators heritage, while maintaining a sleek modern design. Well done, Mr. Barrette!

Too bad the team hasn't adopted this look!

Every Wednesday (Cult)ure shares with you one of the internet's best webcomics. 

Moe is just good old fashioned gag humour. While some of the strips are real groaners, others can't help but produce a smile or a laugh with their child like innocence.  The strip is updated two or three times a week.

If you are a Jackass fan like me, and I know you are, you've been chomping at the bit for the release of Jackass 3.  If that Youtube clip of the dude jumping out of the airplane without a parachute, full on Point Break-style, is any indication, J3 is going to be insane!  Unfortunately, it looks like it wont be out until 2011!!

In the meantime, Jackass: The Lost Tapes is scheduled for a DVD release of October 13.  Likely culled from mediocre cut sequences, much like Jackass 2.5, I'm none-the-less looking forward to checking this out.

Hit the Chapters link in the side bar and order your copy today!

Fanboys is a film with a troubled past; subplots that were shot, then deleted when a new director was brought on board, only to be re-inserted by the original director after that.  The film hit theatres years after its original intended release date, and it played on a limited number of theatres with little marketing to support it.

Which is unfortunate. The film isn't great, but there are definitely three or four huge laughs in there (Peyote Ewok, I'm looking at you) and it is a story with real heart to it.

That said, the studio missed a HUGE opportunity in the marketing of this film. Forget about the all the fantastic cameos (Shatner!). Forget about Seth Rogen playing multiple characters. Forget about all of that.  The studio could have advertised one thing and on thing only, and this movie would have been a hit!

Yes, ladies and gentleman, Fanboys features Veronica Mars in a Slave Girl Leia outfit:

The man who almost single-handedly defined 80's cinema died of a heart attack yesterday. 

John Hughes wrote and/or directed seminal 80's teen films such Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, and 80's comedies such as National Lampoon's Vacation, Uncle Buck, and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.  In the 90's, he wrote successful family films such as the Home Alone series, Beethoven, and Flubber.

Hughes was a huge influence on filmmakers like Kevin Smith, and his films will be remembered and embraced for decades to come.

Every Wednesday (Cult)ure shares with you one of the internet's best webcomics. 

The "about us" description on Buttersafe's website is rather appropriate: "Buttersafe is updated with a new comic every Tuesday and Thursday. These comics will have pictures and probably some words. Nothing else is guaranteed."

This sort of unpredictability is part of what makes the Buttersafe so fun. Some strips are black and white, some are colour, some are simple stick figure images, some have intricate illustrations, some are created by Raynato Castro (Tuesday's comics), some are created by Arthur Culan (Thursday's comics).

I used to have these anxiety dreams all the time where I'm late for hockey and I can't get my goalie pads done up in time to make it out onto the ice before the start of the game.  I'd wake up in a horrible cold sweat.  It was awful.

Now that I've been doing lots of interviews for (Cult)ure, an entirely new anxiety dream has started up:  I'm interviewing someone and my voice recorder won't work properly!

Last night's version of the dream starred Lucas Grabeel, better known as Ryan Evans from the High School Musical films:

A Bizarre And Amazing Entertainment Extravaganza Will Transform Hog's Back Park In Ottawa Beginning July 23!

Carnivàle Lune Bleue is bringing a charismatic cast of bizarre and amazing performers, Magical Midway with vintage rides, gigantic snakes, fortune tellers, plethora of carnival curiousities and so much more to Hog's Back Park in Ottawa for a lively five week run from July 23 - August 30, 2009.

"Carnivàle Lune Bleue was carefully created to be one-of-a-kind show and experience that lets visitors escape to an edgy, authentic, vibrant, sensuous time and place where surprises, shocks and delights are everywhere you look," says Wayne Van De Graaff, Founder and Executive Producer. "Spending an evening with us is like stepping into an old-time movie set where the magic, mythology, stories, atmosphere and performers surround you."

Every Wednesday (Cult)ure shares with you one of the internet's best webcomics. 

The Nonaventures of Wonderella is Justice Pierce's superhero parody staring the decidedly non-heroic protagonist Dana Price, aka Wonderella. Featuring a diverse supporting cast that includes the likes of Wonderita (the sidekick) and Hitlerella (the arch nemisis), and depicted in brightly coloured images with an almost South Park cardboard cut-out feel, the strip is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face, regardless of whether you are laughing along with Wonderella, or at her.

The final night of Ottawa's Bluesfest finished with all the thunder and excitement a grand finale deserves. Jack White's new super-group, The Dead Weather (featuring members of Queens of the Stone Age, The Kills and The Raconteurs, along with White) took the stage at eight to deliver an incredibly rocking set that was enthusiastically embraced by the crowd.

The highlight of the show, for this listener anyway, was the final song of the encore: an fierce rendition of Bob Dylan's "New Pony" from the 1978 album Street-Legal. (The cover also appears on Horehound, the Dead Weather's recently released debut album.)

The song, I suppose, shouldn't have come as a surprise, given that the White Stripes have previously covered Dylan's "One More Cup of Coffee", as well as his arrangement of the traditional "Blackjack Davie"...  All the same, it was a delightful and surprising finish to a fantastic festival.

I don't know about you, but I know what my favourite KISS moment of all time is: Bill and Ted return from the future, bearded and finally ready to become the legends Rufus always told them they would be.  The Princesses, the Stations, the Good Robot Usses, and Death all join in as Wyld Stallyns rock out to KISS's "God Gave Rock n Roll to You II".  Incredible stuff.

 

BANK OF AMERICA STAGE
7 p.m.: Beast
9:30 p.m.: KISS

Every Wednesday (Cult)ure shares with you one of the internet's best webcomics.

David Malki's Wondermark takes preexisting Victorian-era public domain images and adds dialgue and multiple panels, thereby transforming 19th century illusations into into enjoyable  and funny modern-day webcomics.  The site is updated Tuesdays and Fridays.

BANK OF AMERICA STAGE
7 p.m.: Ice Cube
9:30 p.m.: Our Lady Peace

ROGERS STAGE
6 p.m.: Mishka
8 p.m.: Xavier Rudd

SUBWAY STAGE
6:30 p.m.: Spencer Davis
7:45 p.m.: The Yardbirds
9 p.m.: The Zombies

STREET / STAGE

HIP HOP 360: 3^rd Edition

Friday, July 24, 2009 - National Arts Centre Studio - 8:00 PM

The first live rock concert I ever attended was the Stone Temple Pilots at the congress centre, back in the eary 90's.  Hard to believe that was over 15 years ago...  Good to see the boys back together and rocking Ottawa once again.

 BANK OF AMERICA STAGE

 

BANK OF AMERICA STAGE

2 p.m.: Treasa Levasseur

BANK OF AMERICA STAGE

1 p.m.: Drew Nelson Band

3 p.m.: Sweetfire

So, um, the Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest started a few days ago... It is sort of a big deal in Ottawa. We probably should have mentioned it earlier than this, eh? (Who is the music editor of this here magazine anyway?? Oh wait, forget it...)

Below you will find tonight's Bluesfest line-up. (Don't forget to check out our interview with Jesse Cook, before he performs tomorrow night on the Hard Rock Cafe stage!)

Friday, July 10:

Every Wednesday (Cult)ure shares with you one of the internet's best webcomics.

If you have the internet (you do, don't you?) then there is a good chance you've already run into Dinosaur Comics, the long running fixed-art strip staring a T-Rex and his two dinosaur friends.

Though now residing in Toronto, Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North is an Ottawa native and a Carleton University graduate. (Take that University of Ottawa.)

Last Saturday, the Mayfair theatre in Ottawa held its first all-night movie marathon.  Be sure to check out our Youtube Picks this week for a glimpse at what was screened.