Fried brains and Sam
For a brief moment, my escape attempt felt glorious and pure. I was whooping and hollering. Screaming and shouting. I felt alive for the first…
2010
For the coffee snob
It should come as no surprise that school is back in session. Being back, the temptation to skip class and continue sleeping ‘til noon, as…
Would you kill your grandchildren for a boatload of oil?
This past December, our government met with other governments at the climate summit in Copenhagen to worry about what kind of a thing they will,…
Strangling democracy by the threshold
The motion passed by the Canadian Federation of Students at their recent national AGM, which doubled the threshold of students required to trigger a referendum…
Bangers Gone Wild
This year marks the 1,015th anniversary of the Christian invasion and forcible conversion of pagan Norway, and what better way to celebrate this ancient injustice…
Sex, drugs and silk screens
The iconic images of the Campbell’s soup can and Marilyn Monroe brought to you by Andy Warhol could only be done by the technique of…
Monotonix Madness
Monotonix are best known for their epic performances. Crowd-surfing while playing guitar or even drums, jumping off and around the stage, stealing audience members’ drinks…
Films. 2010. Damn.
Hey there, Know-It-All. What’s better than knowing it all? The answer (which you know, of course) is “nothing.” There is nothing better than being the…
Something that can’t be said any other way
“As a musician, I identify more with the writing world than with the musician world,” explains Amelia Curran, in an interview with the Manitoban. “That’s…
Everybody in the theatre getting tipsy
The costumes are outlandish, the cast even more so — welcome to the 1920s and the case of The Drowsy Chaperone. It’s about the corniest…