An ode to The Real Housewives from a history lover
Bravo’s The Real Housewives is my Roman Empire. I mean, the Roman Empire is also my Roman Empire, as a classics student. One way or…
Teegan Gillich
The ’Toban staff’s spooktacular Halloween media picks
The Thing (1982) John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) is a masterwork of horror filmmaking. The oppressive, cold atmosphere evokes an extreme paranoia in the audience…
Presentist paralysis and the desire for a more loving future
Halloween is quickly creeping upon us, and I wish the scariest thing terrorizing my dreams were goblins, ghouls and the other creatures that stalk the…
Fear, horror and gaming
In 1996 Capcom released Resident Evil for the original PlayStation, changing horror gaming and horror as a whole. Games such as Sweet Home (1989) for…
Around-the-horns, vol. 3
For those following Bisons sports, it has been a privilege to watch the women athletes make history and emanate excellence this year. It would be…
Josh on the Jets: 2023-24 outlook
The highs of being a Winnipeg Jets fan can be very high — the city-wide euphoria when the team returned, the 2018 Western Conference Final…
Leading the way to better breast cancer therapies
One in eight cisgender Canadian women will develop breast cancer during their lifetime, and one in 34 will die from it. Not only is breast…
Destruction of Gaza forecasted in film
Reality is worse than fiction. There’s a scene in Palestinian director Elia Suleiman’s 2002 film Divine Intervention where an unarmed woman wearing a pink cocktail…
The casting of moral stones
There has been much debate in recent days over why Hamas chose to launch an “unprovoked” ground, air and sea attack against Israel, and its…
’Toban Listens: Lore
What was the first urban legend you ever heard? For me it was “The Licked Hand,” a tale about a girl at home alone with…