The University of Calgary Campus Pro-Life Club pulled out of a controversial anti-abortion exhibit after the U of C and Students’ Union set “unacceptable” restrictions on the project. The Genocide Awareness Project includes large-scale depictions of the Holocaust, Rwandan genocide and Cambodian killing fields and compares abortion to these and other atrocities. The club’s original… Continue reading Campus Pro-Life pulls plug
Month: November 2005
Film Review: WhenMoviesMatter – The Peacekeepers
By Ben Hoffman
It’s not hard to find somebody to mutter disdain towards the United Nations in the years since the World Trade Center attacks. It has been brought into question time and time again whether the organization is as irrelevant as its post World War I sister, the League of Nations, became before the Second World War.… Continue reading Film Review: WhenMoviesMatter – The Peacekeepers
Film Review: WhenMoviesMatter – Mardi Gras
Mardis Gras is the Catholic celebration preceding Lent and links revellers from all across the world. What once began as a period of abandon foreshadowing 40 days of penance has swiftly transformed into a nondenominational cause for debauchery. Even though many other countries partake in the holiday, New Orleans is the most notorious for its… Continue reading Film Review: WhenMoviesMatter – Mardi Gras
Theatre Preview: Updating a Manchurian classic
By Kenzie Love
Richard Condon’s novel The Manchurian Candidate has already been filmed twice and now it’s being adopted to the stage by Workshop Theatre, Calgary’s largest running theatre company. In 1962, Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury brought it back to life and last year Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep did the same. Both versions were critically acclaimed… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Updating a Manchurian classic
Film Review: Pride and Prejudice should be proud, now don’t be prejudiced towards it.
By Kenzie Love
Pride & Prejudice, the latest take on Jane Austen’s classic novel, is bound to face an uphill climb being one of the few in recent years not starring Colin Firth. However, if those still swooning over the brooding actor’s shirtless appearance in the BBC adaptation of the book give this version a try they might… Continue reading Film Review: Pride and Prejudice should be proud, now don’t be prejudiced towards it.
Music Interview: Arbuckle’s kind of country
We’re desperate to be a country band!” Neville Quinlan, the brains behind NQ Arbuckle excitedly says. Among the many lofty goals bands strive for, being a country band is not usually chief among them but Quinlan has anything but a conventional outlook when it comes to his music. Most would categorize NQ Arbuckle as country… Continue reading Music Interview: Arbuckle’s kind of country
Music Interview: A humble, roguish wave
“Two out of the four of us finally hit puberty on this last tour so it’s bound to have an effect,” singer and multi-instrumentalist Zach Rogue of Rogue Wave laughs about the whirlwind of events leading up to his band’s second album, Descended like Vultures. “I don’t know if I’d say it’s more mature, I… Continue reading Music Interview: A humble, roguish wave
Spartans spank Dinos
By Carly McKay
The Dinos men’s volleyball team’s games Nov. 11-12 did not go as planned. The away series against the top-ranked Trinity Western University Spartans proved to be more challenging than expected. Compounded by the ridiculously low ceiling in the Spartans’ gym, the Dinos simply couldn’t beat their opponents’ serve. Friday’s match was a tough one, with… Continue reading Spartans spank Dinos
The close losses hurt more
The Dinos men’s basketball team proved they will not soon be forgotten as they gave the University of Alberta Golden Bears a tense fight Remembrance Day weekend. Really, it was the Dinos who were golden as they came together to press the Bears in every area of the court. In the end, all that separated… Continue reading The close losses hurt more
Good but not great
On the jolly eastern coast of Canada, the lads and lasses of the Dinos cross-country running squad vied for national pride at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Cross-Country Championship Sat., Nov. 12. Dalhousie University hosted the competition, which took place on a course in Halifax commencing so close to the Atlantic Ocean the fish could smell… Continue reading Good but not great