Love is easier to believe in before it’s experienced. When we’re young, every stranger brings us one step closer to the lifelong bliss promised by Hollywood and Harlequin stories. We soon learn our encounters with true happiness will likely be brief and exist only in retrospect.Typical storybook romances focus only on those moments. They’ll throw… Continue reading Fall in love one last time with Before Sunset
Month: July 2004
Fresh prince of folk: Wil
By Chris Tait
“I drive 12 hours, do a sound check, play a show, go to sleep,” says Wil on a cell phone just outside Banff. “Everything’s coming up fast and making our head spin.” The one-man local musician has been living on the road for several months, touring with such big names as Colin James, Joel Plaskett… Continue reading Fresh prince of folk: Wil
Po’ Girls off on folk
Trish Klein isn’t much of a Bryan Adams fan. At least, that’s the impression I get when talking to her on a scorching Saturday afternoon in Calgary. I was sequestered in a ventilation-void Gauntlet office talking to Klein and band-mate Allison Russell, collectively known as the jazzy-country-blues-folk band Po’ Girl, who were in the considerably… Continue reading Po’ Girls off on folk
Touch of cliche
By Alan Cho
They’ve all started to look the same, haven’t they? Romantic comedies clawing their way through sub-fecal jokes and charmless performances, draped in sweater vests and teetering on designer shoes in the flickering light. Lately, filmmakers seem unable to move past the basic formula: X meets Y, X falls for Y, complications and misunderstandings break the two… Continue reading Touch of cliche
Smoking mad
By Вen Li
The future of cigarette smo-king on the University of Calgary campus is important enough that students, staff and faculty should be genuinely consulted prior to important decisions. Yet the U of C sub-committee responsible for smoking on campus has virtually decided for the entire U of C community that the campus will be smoke-free by… Continue reading Smoking mad
MC Eliminator eliminated
By Вen Li
The MC Eliminator concert scheduled for Mon., July 19 ended before it began. In a rare decision, the Students’ Union cancelled the concert less than two hours before its scheduled start. On that point alone the SU and MC Eliminator’s promoter agree. At around 3 p.m., three Campus Security officers escorted Lincoln Bode-Harrison from MacEwan… Continue reading MC Eliminator eliminated
Campus Security report: caught on tape
By Emily Senger
The June Campus Security report indicates that summer is officially here with an almost empty campus. This means the Campus Security officers should be able to sit back and relax, if it wasn’t and a marked rise in the number of break and enters on campus. “There are less people, which means fewer concerns,” explained… Continue reading Campus Security report: caught on tape
Horse-loving Hypocrites
By Russ Dyck
Animal rights activists showed up at the Calgary Stampede with their big green sign with “Rodeo Kills” painted in black letters. It was hard to determine whether they were referring to the riders or the ride ees. They also tried to show people statistics as they entered the grounds, but all their cries fell on… Continue reading Horse-loving Hypocrites
University of Calgary to be smoke-free by 2006
By Emily Senger
It is difficult to imagine the Den, or any campus bar in which the air isn’t filled with a smoky blue haze, but this scenario may become a reality at the University of Calgary. On September 1, 2003 Dalhousie was the first university in Canada to go completely smoke-free. In Calgary, Southern Institute of Technology… Continue reading University of Calgary to be smoke-free by 2006
SU wants debt windfall
Following the declaration made last week by Premier Ralph Klein that Alberta is now debt free, student leaders hope for more funding for post-secondary education. “Obviously it opens up a big chink in the armor of the government, in that they don’t have this monster, all-encompassing debt,” said Students’ Union President Bryan West. “There’s a… Continue reading SU wants debt windfall