Legends of the Periphery: The Ultimate Penny-farther, Thomas Stevens
From time to time even some of the greatest and most prolific heroes in all of sports fall through the cracks of obscurity and are…
2009
Kicking and screaming
Journalists, I have been told, tend to research topics before they confront the required subject matter. I, on the other hand, joined a kick aerobics…
Bison Rec Review: Zumba
Zumba has been everywhere lately — I’d heard about it from a couple of other sources, like Cyclovia and pole-dancing people I know, so naturally,…
Hands off, Hollywood
The crowds filed out of the matinee amidst over-the-top pronouncements like, “I will never look forward to anything ever again,” and, “I feel like I…
He came. He saw. He gaffed.
Sir Salman Rushdie, the only writer thrice crowned Booker winner , paid Winnipeg a little visit on Oct. 22. The controversial British writer was here…
The globalization of hip hop
“It’s a hip hop world and you are living in it,” writes pop culture critic Dalton Higgins in his newly released book, aptly titled Hip…
Very Special Ed.
An Education is set in 1960s suburban London and tells the story of a teenage girl whose life is changed when she falls in love…
Chameleon Walls and Conceptual Art
Four walls in the Fitzgerald building have been changing colour. Outside of Gallery One One One the rotunda area was at one point blue, transforming…
CD Review : Civet “Hell Hath No Fury”
Is Civet the greatest female rock group since the Runaways? No. Their official bio calls them, “the hottest all-girl rock n’ roll band (both literally…
CD Review : Bad News Brown “Born to Sin”
Now, here is an album that came so close to being something really special. This Montreal-based MC mixes his outstanding harmonica playing into familiar hip-hop…