The art of paying attention
One fateful Wednesday afternoon, I decided to sit in on my best friend’s biology lecture. I’ll admit I was looking for a way to completely…
Arts & Culture
The philosophy of stress
You have two 5,000 word essays to write, six assignments to hand in, 10 chapters to read and it’s all due tomorrow. Here comes the…
Sex and the Campus
t’s late at night, you’ve finally finished everything you wanted to, or can do, in one day and you’re finally letting yourself get to bed….
Theater as transformative action
Racism, motherhood, plastic surgery and the politics of love — these are some of the issues that are being dealt with theatrically as part of…
Vampire Remixed
Let Me In is a violent vampire horror-drama that centers on a desperate bond that forms between two lonely kids, one of whom is a…
A student’s guide to gallery shopping
The art gallery: that impenetrable bastion of high, nearly unapproachable, culture. Its track lighting and white walls are dominated by whispering figures and sidelong glances….
Music of the world, but not world music
The Manitoban Musical Atlas of Popular Music is a sporadically-published guide to the export-friendly pop music of the world outside England and North America. Society…
More than a hot drink
I have a tea problem: green, Earl Grey, chai . . . the list is too long. Similarly, the smell of coffee will break even…
Cold Blue steel
When it comes to the inventions of the human race, there is a long line of things that we’re particularly proud of. Usually these items…
Sex on the campus
As children, when something didn’t go exactly according to plan, or quite as well as we’d have liked it to, we enjoyed the luxury of…