By Kate Foote
There are few things still qualifying as ‘authentic’ in punk music today. Spending a day pacing outdoors in the summer sun on a racetrack while dust fills any orifice left unprotected, interspersed with indiscriminate flailing in a sweaty crowd is, to some, an experience definitive of punk. Warped Tour, however, has come to take an… Continue reading Music Interview: Radicals for the masses
In 1959, 14-year-old Steven Truscott was sentenced to hang for the rape and murder of his 12-year-old classmate Lynne Harper, becoming the youngest death row inmate in Canada. His trial became one of the most well-known and controversial in our nation’s history. At the very last minute, Truscott’s sentence was changed to 10 years in… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Play targets justice system
By Kyle Francis
A standing ovation has be- come a courtesy to the performers, like an effort sticker on a junior high report card. Too often theater-goes clamour out of their seats to applaud performances deserving no more than a gentle tossing of overripe vegetables. Despite the overused ovation, some acts truly deserve them and a crowds’ reactions… Continue reading Theatre Review: The sublime Syringa Tree
By Alan Cho
Forget the paper-thin story, generic direction and a cast with the collective acting prowess of Tara Reid’s left boob–for 10 minutes Doom is glorious. Rumours and the trailer only hint at the sublimity of the exact moment you paid to see when the first person perspective becomes the most transcendent moment in cinema today. Not… Continue reading Film Review: Believe it or not, Doom is dumb
By Jason McKay
As midterms near their end and there is a bit of a gap in the stress before papers are due, a good comedy can be the perfect thing to help get you through to the end of the semester. This is exactly what Theatre Calgary’s second production of the season, Wingfield’s Inferno, delivers. This one… Continue reading Theatre Review: Wingfield’s Inferno not hellish
Some artists feel the need to hide behind layers of artifice, carefully crafted personas and vague lyrical metaphors. When Luke Doucet croons “it takes a uniquely fucked up man to break his own heart” on the song “One Too Many,” off his second solo offering Broken (and Other Rogue States) he clearly isn’t hiding. Where… Continue reading Music Interview: A uniquely fucked up man
The Calgary music scene is ready to burst. This isn’t a contentious issue, lately it’s being said everywhere. Yet, our scene is still overlooked by most while Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver bask in international acclaim. What we need is a band to come along and give Calgary the nudge it needs to be visible outside… Continue reading Music Interview: Beija Flor
By Monika Czyz
A recent national campaign launched by the Canadian AIDS Society is targeting young, heterosexual, Canadian women in promoting HIV/AIDS awareness and communicating the message it is an illness on the rise. Contrary to popular belief, the number of individuals contracting HIV is still rising, and according to Health Canada’s HIV/AIDS 2004 update, an estimated 56,000… Continue reading AIDS and women
The University of Calgary Students’ Union is hoping to pick up more than trash at the seventh annual highway cleanup this weekend.Members of the SU’s Campus Recycling Board are inviting students to help clean up a stretch of the Trans-Canada highway near Chestermere Lake Sat., Oct. 29 at 10 a.m., but are also hoping students… Continue reading Pick up trash with the SU
Den patrons, concert-goers at the Metric show and Gauntlet staff alike were evacuated from MacEwan Student Centre close to midnight Wed., Oct. 27. A chlorine leak linked to the Kinesiology Aquatic Centre brought numerous Calgary Emergency Medical Services vehicles, as well as Calgary Police, Fire Department, the Hazardous Materials Team and the Regional Decontamination Unit… Continue reading KNES and MSC evacuated