Trend spotter
Stop! Look up from your paper and look around . . . What do you notice? Maybe you are in a classroom full of students…
Arts & Culture
Addresses are overrated
“I should have just gotten a post box in the first place,” I sighed, as updating your new address with the post office has a…
Essentially a playlist
So it turns out the editor-in-chief of this here publication has created an “Essentially A Playlist” YouTube account with videos to accompany my selections for…
Learning log
I’m pretty big on being self-taught. I’ve taught myself auto mechanics, home wiring, carpentry, Italian cooking and a host of other things. It’s important to…
Canada: An American experience
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 inner workings of a music store
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…
How not to park a car
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…
The leaves aren’t green anymore
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…
Sex and the campus
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…
CD review: Jen Lane, For the Night
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…