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By Sean Sullivan

Franchise owner Jay Blackman says Smoke’s Poutinerie is tossing around a number of ideas for serving breakfast poutine at the University of Calgary MacEwan Student Centre location. Smoke’s has not settled on any specific breakfast options yet but some of the possible recipes Blackman mentioned are a scrambled egg, maple syrup and bacon poutine; a… Continue reading Smoke’s Poutinerie introducing breakfast poutines for U of C

By Sean Sullivan

A research program from the University of Calgary is exploring how dance can help people with Parkinson’s disease. Researchers are hoping that the combination of gross and fine motor skills involved in dance will help strengthen the connections between different parts of the brain so that healthy regions will take on the load from regions… Continue reading U of C professors researching effect of dance on Parkinson’s disease

By Sean Sullivan

Following the events of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the movie I, Frankenstein begins with Frankenstein’s monster carrying the frozen corpse of Victor Frankenstein back to his home and burying him. The funeral is the unintended metaphor for Shelley’s gothic novel: the story is dead, the movie has buried it alongside its namesake. What follows is a… Continue reading Film review: I, Frankenstein

By Sean Sullivan

University of Calgary dance professors Michèle Moss and Melanie Kloetzel are exploring contemporary and jazz dance in the performance Split Screen, part of the School of Creative and Performing Arts Professional Series. Moss examines ways of depicting past, present and future through movement in her piece Falling Into Spirit, which draws from Moss’s Jamaican heritage… Continue reading Split Screen

By Sean Sullivan

In honour of the first documented gay social club in Calgary, Third Street Theatre, Calgary Gay History Project and One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo are presenting Club Carousel: A Celebration of Calgary’s Gay History in the Big Secret Theatre on Jan. 30. Club Carousel, which opened in 1968, holds a special place in Calgary’s… Continue reading Celebrating Calgary’s LGBT history

By Sean Sullivan

In a world where people avoid foreign films because of subtitles, opera can appear daunting and inaccessible. A new pilot project is attempting to change that, organized by University of Calgary professor Maria Euchner, from the department of linguistics, languages and cultures. Coinciding with the opening night of Calgary Opera’s production of Richard Wagner’s The… Continue reading Opera for all

By Sean Sullivan

For fans of musical theatre, the University of Calgary Operetta Company is finally putting on the classical Broadway musical The Music Man from Meredith Willson. While the titles of such songs as Seventy-six Trombones, My White Knight, Lida Rose and (Ya Got) Trouble may not be immediately recognizable by some, director Colleen Whidden says these… Continue reading U of C Operetta performing classic musical

By Sean Sullivan

Susan Aglukark is a three-time Juno award-winning singer who sings songs in English and Inuktitut. Aglukark released her ninth album and second holiday album on Nov. 5. When searching for rehearsal space for her and her band before a concert in Saskatoon earlier this month, Aglukark came across Gallery House Concerts in Calgary. The Gauntlet… Continue reading Singing about Christmas and family

By Sean Sullivan

Sometimes stories just work better as a movie. This was the case with the first film adaptation, The Hunger Games, and it is the case again with its sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Following director Gary Ross’s gritty take on the first novel, director Francis Lawrence and screen writers Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt… Continue reading Movie review: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire