Arts & Culture
Grrrls, Grrrls, Grrrls
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“Riotgrrrl is because we are angry at a society that tells us Girls = dumb, Girl = bad, Girl = weak,” wrote Kathleen Hanna in 1991, as part of The Riot Grrrl Manifesto....
Graduate! It’s like, whatever.
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So you're graduating soon! Going out into the “real world” to be an “adult,” without the downy cushion of studenthood beneath your head. Good luck with that, I'm sure it will work out for...
False Dichotomies
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False Dichotomies is a continuing column that unfairly pits two things against one another to determine, definitively, which is better.
This week: watching the entire Oscar telecast vs. spending a year in prison for...
The Realest
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Walking through Kristjana Wood’s exhibition is much like going through a nature interpretation center or an aquarium. These exquisitely rendered paintings each focus on a single living subject, among them animals, plants, insects and...
Mother Lover
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What does the 30 Years' War — which involved most of 17th century Europe — have in common with contemporary society, particularly one viewed through the lens of Marxism? If you were to answer,...
Musical Memory : The Headbanging Fraud
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Attending concerts has never been my calling. Instead, I had always chosen to listen to music free of charge, by blasting terrestrial radio stations and illegally downloading tunes (gasp!). I finally broke down last...
Essentially a Playlist : In Tune With Tragedy
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While the images of the Vancouver Olympics are no longer being broadcast on “Canada’s Olympic Network” (biggest surprise: TSN and Sportsnet are buddies, and not competitors), one image that I can’t shake is the...
