Month: September 2007

By Jordyn Marcellus

We’ve all seen them; the weird and wacky people huddled over a tabletop together playing video games, rolling dice, or trading cards, talking in terms that are mystical in their incomprehensibility. We laugh at their activities illustrated on YouTube—wearing shabby renaissance-faire-reject costumes, hitting each other with padded swords and throwing foam balls at one another… Continue reading All the little monsters love going to camp

By Indrani Kar

Geoffrey Hunter’s new works at the Paul Kuhn Gallery at first resemble colourful and random chaos, technicolor swirls and scribbles seemingly without meaning. But with more careful attention to the shapes, colours and lines, one quickly finds the work is imbued with layers of stories and at the same time, nothingness. As a result, it… Continue reading A splash of colourful art

By Ryan Pike

This past Sunday, the 59th Primetime Emmys arrived with all the pageantry and hoopla typically reserved for a 12-year-old’s birthday party. Odds are that unless you watched much television over the past week and a half, you didn’t really know about the Emmys. Even if you did know, you probably didn’t care—early ratings numbers peg… Continue reading The Emmys: the awards show nobody cares about

By Darren Young

Though he appreciates the offer, Mike Relm is not interested in DJ-ing your wedding, birthday party, bar mitzvah, or kegger—he’s not that kind of DJ. Furthermore, it is doubtful you would ever be able to accommodate his gear. Equipped with turntables, several large screens and projectors, Relm is much more than any wedding DJ. “When… Continue reading Mike Relm will not spin at your party

By Marina Foo

Coming from Broadway, David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole opens the 35th season of Alberta Theatre Projects. The Broadway version was directed by Daniel Sullivan with Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon and Judging Amy’s Tyne Daley among the cast. Although the cast a little closer to home doesn’t have the same household names as the Broadway… Continue reading Rabbit Hole brings Broadway brilliance to Calgary

By Ryan Pike

Theatre has been around for quite some time. Given the sheer number of performances taking place, it’s difficult for theatre-goers to find anything new. Luckily for them, the Downstage Performance Society has crafted a performance, Arm’s Length Embrace, that’s sure to be vastly different than what most Calgarians have experienced. Downstage’s Artistic Producer Simon Mallett… Continue reading Sneaking up on Downstage

By Morgan Haigler

A recent review of 300 of Alberta’s various decision-making boards discovered that many consist of several Conservative party members. Three of 100 significant agencies, boards, and committees were found to consist completely of Tory members, according to an Edmonton Journal investigation. MLAs and other government officials may be qualified for the positions, but their party… Continue reading News for the unnewsed

By Katy Anderson

One of Canada’s most respected environmental groups, the David Suzuki Foundation, announced a new CEO early September. Current Mountain Equipment Co-op CEO Peter Robinson will begin the position Jan. 1. Robinson will stay at MEC until then to finish up his current projects. “I’ve done seven and a half years of the co-op and had… Continue reading Leading environmental group names new CEO

By Dean Hetherington

Clubs. To some, the word instantly evokes the image of a baby seal, waddling contentedly with imminent doom perched near by, his only possible salvation in the proximity of an angry, irrelevant Paul McCartney. More likely however, the first thing coming to mind is the uncomfortably crowded MacEwan Student Center in the third week of… Continue reading Club me ’till I’m week

By Andrew Sedor

Since 2001, Alberta’s demand for power has grown at the same rate as it would adding two cities the size of Red Deer every year. As gas and oil prices rise along with greenhouse gases, electricity companies are trying to find ways to provide Alberta clean energy that doesn’t restrain economic growth. This summer Energy… Continue reading Nuclear discussion