Stop and smell the pickles
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….
Arts & Culture
One artist, many hands
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…
Creating ‘solid ground for women to stand on’
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…
Women’s Day – why?
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…
The next Settlers of Catan?
Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, SimCity: combine them all into one board game and you’d get something like the board game City. City is the brainchild…
The Good, the Bad, and the Critic
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 –…
Dancing for the darkness
Grave Clothes,” one of the three songs on the freshman release from local trio the Party Dress, is suited for use in a film by…
The show is about to begin
The days of the iconic Big Top may have faded into history, but that doesn’t mean the days of the circus are over. According to…
Taking up space with rock ’n’ roll fury
If you haven’t witnessed the rock ’n’ roll fury that is the Pack A.D., prepare to give your eardrums a smashing treat. The energetic guitar-and-drums…
When our humanity meets mental illness
If you want to be confronted with the challenges of being human sans heavy-handed preaching, then check out the upcoming production of The Valley at…