Arts & Culture

In case you forgot, Feb. 14 is Valentine’s Day. This romantic holiday is filled with roses, poetry, love and flying naked babies. It’s a wondrous time of love being proclaimed and lovers exchanging tokens...

Canadians claim to be patriotic. We sew our flags on our backpacks when we travel; we chug Tim Hortons coffee like it’s going out of style; we try to convince our American neighbours that...

I am currently sitting in a tiny dorm room in Koper, Slovenia. The heat has turned itself off, I have no sheets on my bed, and the hot water tank is dripping. Ah, the...

Imagine a scene where a couple is seated at a table. They stare into each other’s eyes. All that tragic misunderstanding is behind them, and they are a few lines away from the part...

A couple months ago director James Cameron came out with this movie called Avatar. You may have heard of it. On the surface, its success story is your standard tabloid fare — a Hollywood...

Though many film-goers bemoan the deadening lack of originality in mainstream cinema, only a few bother to seek out alternatives. Sure, fare like the independent short film can sometimes seem too wildly experimental, arty...

The California condor, one of the world’s rarest bird species, has a long and troubled history. At one point the Condor was so close to extinction that the United States government captured the remaining...