Arts & Culture
Get off your dumb lazy butt
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When I was asked by one of the editors of the Manitoban to write an article about how to motivate yourself and how you are your worst critic I thought to myself, “I can’t...
Social networks hand over the microphone
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What’s on your mind? This is the question phrased on the homepage of the micro-blogging, social networking giant Twitter.com.
Users of the website, along with followers of social media counterpart Facebook.com and lesser utilized...
A first year’s guide to university according to George Roy
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First-years, you’re not in high school anymore. University, as I’m sure you’ve been told, is much different than high school. Maybe you don’t believe it. I didn’t when I began university. Knowing now how...
The people behind the paint
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I asked Dee Barsy on a bright Wednesday morning, “Is painting still relevant? In a media-saturated world where the average person is bombarded by thousands of images a day through the Internet, television and...
Drawn Underground
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Recently I stumbled upon something called folksonomy (from “folk taxonomy”) — a kind social tagging for art. It’s a program that gives any member of the public access to look at various museums’ online...
Lollapalooza-palooza
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I still don’t know how it happened. What began as an observation between friends, that the 2010 Lollapalooza line-up was pretty great, somehow evolved into looking up cheap hotel rooms and booking time off...
8-bit Charm
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In order for Scott Pilgrim to date Ramona Flowers he must first defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends.
At least part of the success of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series is due to the...
