The Calgary Oval X-treme opened their season in fine form this past weekend with a pair of victories over their Alberta rivals the Edmonton Chimos Oct. 20 and 21. The X-Treme showed their trademark high-powered offence by winning both games by at least five goal margins with 5-0 and 8-3 victories.

The season opener on Sat. night saw the X-Treme raise their 2006-07 Western Women's Hockey League championship banner. However, the Edmonton Chimos were looking to take the defending league champs down a peg.

The University of Calgary basketball ladysaurs continued their preparation for the regular season with one final preseason tournament at Dalhousie University this past weekend.

With only nine players available thanks to injuries, there was plenty of playing time to go around.

The University of Calgary men's basketball team went 2-0 against their National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics competition in Montana this past weekend. It brings their pre-season schedule nearly to a close with only a single game remaining against the University of Whitworth Pirates from Spokane Sat., Oct. 27. It will be the first home game for the Dinos since Sep. 3 when they played the Creighton University Bluejays.

The University of Calgary Dinos football team utterly destroyed the Simon Fraser Clan 54-3 Sat., Oct. 20. The Dinos outgained the Clan 544 yards to 260 as two Dinos put up over a hundred yards rushing. Rookie Matt Walter lead the way with 127 yards and two TDs and Anthony Woodson put up 106 yards with one TD. The pair now ranks first and second in Canada West rushing yards.

Win and you're in. Seven games and two months come down to one night. All the University of Calgary football team needs to do to get into the playoffs for the first time since 2004 is win their final game of the regular season against the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds Fri., Oct. 26. This isn't going to be an easy task. Both teams are tied for the fourth and final playoff position with a 3-4 record.

There's an increasing complexity and dynamism in our modern life and it's never been so reflected as in music. At one point, music was created on tape, which was then replaced with digital recording methods and soon after that, personal computers could be used to make music.

Sometimes it's hard not to be loved. Alberta Theatre Projects' latest production combines a soundtrack from a forgotten Canadian pop singer and the trial of a celebrity-obsessed, middle-aged man to form Still Desire You, a quasi-musical that blurs the lines between love and obsession. It is based on the 1980s play I Love You, Anne Murray, which detailed the events of one Saskatchewan farmer's unrequited love for Anne Murray.

"Everyone in the band has a lot of different interests and influences and backgrounds and then when we put that all together, it's kind of like a stew," says multi-instrumentalist Michael Doerksen of his band Sunset Rubdown. "Like, [putting] a blues riff against a prog riff, you're just creating a stew of genres that hopefully becomes something unique."

The world was a wacky place back in 1961. Emboldened--and perhaps terrified--by the Soviet Union managing to get cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space, United States president John F. Kennedy laid out a challenge to the scientists and test pilots of the fledgling NASA organization: put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. David Sington's In the Shadow of the Moon follows the triumphs and tribulations of the moon missions from Kennedy's challenge straight through to the success of the Apollo 11 landing.

Wes Anderson films come with certain expectations from fans and detractors alike. Anderson has established a reputation as the most eccentric and quirky filmmaker out there, so much so that "quirky" has become redundant in describing his films. Whether you find his films delightful or overly precious is up to personal taste, but it cannot be denied that over a decade of making these films, Anderson and his team of recurring actors and writers have refined this formula and made it theirs.