By Josh Rose
Punk music and acoustic guitar has never been a good combination in my mind but Greg Rekus’s latest album Punkoustic has proven otherwise. The Winnipeg-born singer’s music manages to bring together the two genres into a sound that has the fast, hard vocals of punk and the full, rich sound of acoustic instruments, which appeals… Continue reading Spun: Greg Rekus
After settling down to listen to a nice heavy metal album — the cover featured a barely clothed pin-up girl with a pentagram belt, wrangling three leashed hellhounds before a mountain of skulls and guitars — I was shocked to find that nothing even remotely like that was coming out of my speakers. Swamp Thing’s… Continue reading Spun: Swamp Thing
Calgary author Kim McCullough’s debut novel, Clearwater is a good read for teens and young adults, mostly because it resembles a season of Degrassi. The novel follows Claire Sullivan and Jeff Carson, two teenagers living in a troubled small town in northern Manitoba. They struggle with abuse, drugs, drinking, suicide, relationships et cetera. There’s rarely… Continue reading Book review: Kim McCullough’s Clearwater
By Ashton Chugh
Embarking on their latest tour to promote their new album Grinning Streak, the Barenaked Ladies are celebrating a career that has spanned a quarter century. “We talked a lot about 25 years and how do we approach it,” lead singer Ed Robertson says. “Then we said the best way to do it is to make… Continue reading 25 years of Barenaked Ladies
Food banks are an important commodity on campus for students who are stretched financially thin. Mary Hart*, arts major and a single mother at the University of Calgary, uses the Campus Food Bank regularly. Before she was a student, Hart was a starving artist, working three jobs and supporting a child on her own. In… Continue reading Hungry… for a change?
Matthew Parkinson has watched over 100 films in 2013. Over the next two weeks he’ll select his picks for the best and worst films of 2013. All is Lost All is Lost tells the almost dialogue-free tale of an elderly man who winds up having to survive on his own at sea. Robert Redford stars… Continue reading Best films of 2013
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. Nope, it’s Metro Man. With the power to withstand cold in a single jacket, this enigmatic superbeing stands atop his perch at the stairs of the University LRT station. It is his concrete fortress, his vantage point from which he surveys all. Said to originate from the distant planet… Continue reading Superhero emerges on U of C campus
Students returning from the holidays can expect some significant changes at the University of Calgary in the new year, according to university president Liz Luger. Among the first big changes? The renaming of the University of Calgary to Calgary Polytechnic. “The rechristening of the academy to Polytechnic is long in coming,” Luger explained December 31,… Continue reading U of C to be renamed Calgary Polytechnic
By Riley Hill
During a University of Calgary Board of Governors meeting on Dec.13, the Students’ Union voted in favour of changes that will raise the price of tuition and residence fees in September 2014. In May 2014, tuition for full-time undergraduate students will go up by one per cent, or $53 a year. This is the maximum… Continue reading Students’ Union approves hike in tuition and residence fees over holiday break
By Riley Hill
Professors at the University of Calgary medical school are urging students to get their flu shots amid a surge of H1N1 influenza cases across the province. While seasonal spikes in influenza are nothing new, Alberta has been hit particularly hard this year due to the return of H1N1. U of C medical professor Dr. James… Continue reading Medical school warns students to get flu shots amidst rise in H1N1
