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The Good, the Bad, and the Critic

By
Michael Carlisle
Though there have been many books that analyze film and the significance of children in them, none can compare to Mark Cousins’ documentary A Story of Children and Film. Using examples from the filmography...
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The sound of violence

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Lukas Thiessen
Nicholas Krueger confronts the assumption that violent screech is a term for the sound made by a novice violin student playing the instrument for the first time. Classically trained at Centenary Suzuki School in...
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Stop and smell the pickles

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Anastasia Chipelski
While February isn’t typically the canning season, you wouldn’t know it from the full house gathered at Café Ce Soir on a chilly Monday night. We were all there for a sold-out workshop on...
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One artist, many hands

By
Lukas Thiessen
When the site at the Forks was excavated for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), 400,000 mostly Aboriginal artifacts were unearthed. Now, when visitors to Canada’s newest national museum enter the postmodern building, they...
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Creating ‘solid ground for women to stand on’

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Carlyn Schellenberg
Alex Torcolacci and Ellie Schwartz were studying for their final exams last semester when the topic of what they would do for their joint birthdays this year came up. Instead of the typical birthday...
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Women’s Day – why?

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Anastasia Chipelski
International Women’s Day (IWD) has strong roots in the socialist and labour movements, but in 2014, the symbolic meaning of this day is not so clear cut. While some may lament the lack of a...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Critic

By
Michael Carlisle
I have watched many strange animated films, but none as peculiar as Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver’s Asphalt Watches. The film yields a Gonzo-esque experience – not that I’m advocating drug use, but their employment...

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