Month: March 2012

By Charis Whitbourne

The phrase “employment skills” may call to mind grey visions of workshops and the rigid confines of classroom lectures. The facilitators of Maestro, however, believe that learning best occurs through creativity. Maestro is an initiative supported by the Government of Canada that strives to help young people gain job and lifestyle skills such as budgeting,… Continue reading Maestros of their fates

By Nicole Kobie

Despite their growing popularity in recent years, tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons seem hopelessly foreign to most people. Expensive books, hard-to-grasp rules and the exclusionary nature of many gaming communities tend to drive off many interested in the hobby. Legend Calgary hopes to change this, while raising money for charity in the… Continue reading Legendary

By Justin Azevedo

The Internet’s debut album, Purple Naked Ladies, is an oddity among the Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All releases. While it does have the honour of being the first official album released on the group’s new label, it strays from the established style of Odd Future — an indescribable type of gangsta rap that… Continue reading Spun: The Internet

By Matthew Parkinson

The Hunger Games is an unevenly paced adaptation of the equally poorly paced bestselling novel by Suzanne Collins. It’s about as close to the novel as you can get, bringing with it all of the strengths (such as the characters and the well thought-out world), while not being able to fix the main weaknesses —… Continue reading Film review: Let The Hunger Games begin

By Laura Bardsley

The Music Times Two Festival is a brand-new showcase of local and international acts, including big names such as Peter Kember (Sonic Boom, Britain’s Spacemen 3) and members of ’90s alt-rock band Galaxie 500, as well as emerging artists like Cheval Sombre, who just finished recording a full-length with MGMT. Scheduled for March 24-25, this… Continue reading Calgary music blog becomes full-fledged alternative festival

By Alireza Fazlirad

The City of Calgary has appointed native Calgarian poet and artist Kris Demeanor as its first-ever Poet Laureate. Chosen to be Calgary’s literary ambassador advocating poetry, language and the arts for a period of two years, Demeanor was selected from among 14 nominees by a volunteer committee, including spoken-word maven Sheri-D Wilson and local rapper… Continue reading Kris Demeanor named Calgary’s inaugural Poet Laureate

By Sean Willett

A film isn’t something that can be slapped together in a couple of days with only a camera, a Macbook and grim determination– unless you are competing in NUTV’s 48-Hour Eco Film Challenge, of course. Normally, it takes a team of filmmakers a monumental amount of time and money to finish a project. Even short… Continue reading Greenlite arts festival

By Remi Watts

You have never had consensual sex. The sex you have now is not consensual, nor will you ever have consensual sex so long as you continue to live as you do. Rape, sexual abuse and assault are merely the tip of a sexually violent iceberg. Given the direness of our present circumstances– the inherent barbarism… Continue reading Age of no consent

By Gauntlet Editorial Board

“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” So sang Joni Mitchell. In the case of striking Quebec post-secondary students, they didn’t realize how good they had things until the government tried to change it. Even now Quebec students fail to realize that with the changes things… Continue reading Editorial: The woes of Quebec students