Essentially A Playlist – September 8, 2010
You’re probably thinking to yourself, “Didn’t I just read a whole whack of articles about road trips in the last issue of the Manitoban?” and…
Arts & Culture
Sex and the Campus
There is something I feel should be a universally accepted fact: it is incredibly hard to be single when you’re hurt or sick. Even the…
Get off your dumb lazy butt
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…
Social networks hand over the microphone
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…
A first year’s guide to university according to George Roy
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….
The people behind the paint
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…
Drawn Underground
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…
Lollapalooza-palooza
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…
8-bit Charm
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…
Michael Cera in review
Fans of the Scott Pilgrim series seemed collectively intrigued by the idea of the Canadian graphic novel being transformed into an Edgar Wright flick, and…