Arts & Culture

When traveling to an unfamiliar nation, the wise take opportunity to learn about the land, its culture, practices and concerns. Clearly, one takes into consideration the culture, practices and concerns of the home nation,...

Music is a driving force in our culture today. Simply look to the fairly recent invention of the mp3 player and the iPod and you will see how people from all ages connect with...

Like the downtown area of every major city in the world, Vienna’s is largely made up of one-way streets. Even though I was aware of this, I still thought it would be a...

A couple of weeks ago September was swept away by a breeze of nonchalant copper leaves. Classes officially start in beginning of September, but things don’t get serious until September fades off of the...

Thanksgiving, the time of year when you stop and be thankful for what you have. A lot of the time, it seems like when you stop to think about what you’ve got, there is always...

Don't be fooled by the cover art of Jen Lane's For The Night: this is not the urban folk-pop it would appear to be at first glance. From the pervasive use of the lap...

Journalist Bob Mersereau’s new book The Top 100 Canadian Singles has reduced our musical history to sort of a baby boomer version of a Guy Lombardo set list. Despite the inclusion of indisputable classics,...