Arts & Culture

Starting in the spring of 2010 I found myself starting to dabble in the idea of slam poetry. Slam poetry is a kind of poetry that holds true to an antithesis of formality, commonly...

Any avid traveler can testify that leaving a country you have just explored and fallen in love with can be a heart wrenching and difficult thing. I was terribly sad to leave Australia and...

I, like many people, previously had a love affair. It lasted quite a while, but has recently been on hold for a prolonged period of time. I had an affair with what I thought...

They are green and blue and yellow. They loudly proclaim “Re-Elect Sam Katz” or “Judy for Mayor!” They are a mixture of plastic and sawdust. And they squat at the edges of suburban...

Having worked in a small town grocery store this past summer I learned that the average cash out for tobacco products was $1,000 a day, in a town of 200 people! So, from Captain...

The advertising and marketing executives are always looking for untapped markets, and so it is with dating. We are always looking for people we haven’t contacted or entire places we haven’t been before. Certainly, in...

The time of year is fast approaching in which the entire population of the U of M moves underground. Naps on the quad and games of pick-up soccer are soon to be replaced with...