By Adam Goetz
Motivation is a hard thing to find these days, even for local filmmaker/writer Andre Rodrigues. After months and months of diligent labour he has finished putting together his third annual film festival. “I really dropped the ball last time,” Rodrigues explains with a hint of disappointment in his voice. “So I had to do this… Continue reading Andre’s double debut (again)
San Diego, California’s Rocket from the Crypt has never quite made it to the heights they seemed destined to reach when they put out their first major-label release, 1995’s Scream, Dracula, Scream. The music-buying public never caught on to the band’s horn-infused, punk-inflected rock and roll. Despite never making it commercially, RFTC stayed together, retaining… Continue reading RFTC play Calgary, don’t dress the same anymore
By James Keller
Addiction. Few people are given any kind of window through which to see the tragedy and loss it can bring. Alberta Theatre Project’s Zadie’s Shoes has built such a window in arguably ATP’s best production this season, full of raw emotion and painfully witty humour.Ben’s grandfather, Zadie, lost his shoes to a straight flush in… Continue reading Faith and addiction at ATP
Idlewild is a band that stands alone among their British contempories. While Blur and Oasis were battling it out for Britpop supremacy, Idlewild were touring every inch of the British Isles, playing their own unique brand of Minor-Threat-meets-Sonic-Youth influenced indie-rock. After already touring Australia and Asia, Idlewild released The Remote Part and are five weeks… Continue reading Britpop meets redneck Alberta
“I was the guy that on the way home from the record shop would smell the vinyl and couldn’t wait to get home to turn off the phone and the TV and sit in my room with the headphones to experience the album. I like looking at the liner notes, the packaging, the extras that… Continue reading Dust and Scratches
He had the most piercing green eyes. It was only a passing moment on those dirty steps to the train platform. He looked right into me and I felt like this had happened before. Like we had happened before. He was a stranger though; I knew him less then a minute. But in that time… Continue reading The Memory of Him
Just a couple of nameless men, sitting together in a booth. The restaurant is dimly lit, but there isn’t much to see anyway. If you squinted through the stale cigarette smoke, you would see faded posters of New York on the walls, and beneath that a grimy wallpaper displaying what was once red stripes.The booth… Continue reading That feeling you have
but can never explain
By Jen Anthony
The artist inside her cried every time Nelson Kennedy unveiled another painting. “How exquisite,” she said. “The conjunction of brushstrokes shows a clear focus by the artist.”She didn’t choke, she didn’t stutter, or even pause at the use–misuse–of the word “artist.”It was her job; no one could fault her for that.And she had much practice… Continue reading The Business of Art
By GNS
The recent provincial budget will fund construction of the new Childrens’ Hospital on the University of Calgary West Campus, and new health research buildings at the U of C and University of Alberta, according to university officials. The two universities will share $210 million in funding.“Both universities faced the same problem, in that we had… Continue reading Alberta budget affects U of C
By Вen Li
\About 200 U of C students and Calgarians protested against the war in Iraq on Fri., Apr. 4. After leaving behind less than a dozen supporters of the war, the group marched for 30 minutes through campus.“I’m a student who is concerned about the war,” said Tim Cole, who helped organize the event. “We’re here… Continue reading War, what is it good for?