Arts & Culture

Just the fax

By
Leah Werier
We are constantly reminded how technology is rapidly developing and changing our world. Apple just announced its new product — the iPad — a handy device that stores books, music, videos and will even...
Arts & Culture

So Bad it’s Good

By
Leah Werier
In both fetish and fantasy, the “bad girl” is deviant, overtly sexual and dangerous. She is the one of temptresses of the Bible (Salome and Magdalene), she is the sword-wielding Judith who beheaded Holofernes...
Arts & Culture

Sex, drugs and silk screens

By
Leah Werier
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 silk screen printing. But printmaking as a celebrated art...
Arts & Culture

Monotonix Madness

By
Leah Werier
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 to pour on themselves, wearing next to nothing, or...
Arts & Culture

A falafel with a side of art

By
Leah Werier
How does a starving artist get into a restaurant? By hanging their work. Located within Degrees Diner in University Center, The Starving Artist Gallery (SAG) is mandated to exclusively show the work of University...
Arts & Culture

Eating The Dinosaur

By
Leah Werier
Many people would find the idea of rationalizing the writing of the Unabomber manifesto or comparing Kurt Cobain to the cult leader David Koresh absurd, nevermind reading both these ideas in the same book....
Features

Veil, voice and vision

By
Leah Werier
Images of the virginal Disney princess Belle are juxtaposed with bold black outlines of a woman, eyes closed as she receives oral sex. This massive canvas first comes across to the viewer as a...
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