Arts & Culture
The philosophy of stress
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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 stress.
The easiest way to avoid this stress would be...
Sex and the Campus
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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. The phone is charging on your night table, everything...
Theater as transformative action
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Racism, motherhood, plastic surgery and the politics of love — these are some of the issues that are being dealt with theatrically as part of FemFest 2010: On the Edge. Designed to celebrate women...
Vampire Remixed
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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 vampire. Directed by Matt Reeves, it is an American...
A student’s guide to gallery shopping
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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. Do you return the glance? Do you know him?...
Music of the world, but not world music
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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
Iceland’s musical society is more closely knit than its sweaters. Few...
More than a hot drink
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I have a tea problem: green, Earl Grey, chai . . . the list is too long.
Similarly, the smell of coffee will break even my most driven and assertive stride, and will force...
