By Kyle Young
Do you like egg nog? Does it annoy you that it only comes out around winter? Are you the kind of person who tries to freeze it and make it last all year? If so, then you know the feeling of finding something that is way past the expiry date, which is exactly the way… Continue reading Snow, Two Hands Clapping
By Kyle Young
This album can best be described as dark techno, of the better kind. Exodus is extremely well produced and shows enormous amounts of both talent and future potential. Though there are moments that sound like they belong more in a club than on this CD, the majority of the tracks manage to show a level… Continue reading Andy Hunter, Exodus
Anyone that has ever heard Portishead will definitely tell you that one of the group’s strongest possessions is the voice of Beth Gibbons. Beautiful, haunting and soothing all at the same time, it’s almost a guarantee that any song with Gibbons on the microphone is sure to be good.I have to admit, the first time… Continue reading Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man, Out Of Season
By Andrew Ross
You’ve probably never heard of the Funk Brothers–very few people have–but it’s virtually guaranteed that you’ve heard their work. They were the Detroit studio band for Motown Records from 1959-1970, and they played and created the music on every Motown record from that era. In the process, they played on more number one records than… Continue reading Behind the hits
By James Keller
The branding of our environment, both public and private, seems increasingly unavoidable. More and more, advertising is creeping into once out-of-bounds areas like washroom stalls, public schools and even NASA spacecraft. It is said people see upwards of 3,000 advertisements every day, and there seems to be no limit to where advertising will rear its… Continue reading Subverting our branded world
It’s cold. Walking towards the Science Theatres you notice that something is terribly, terribly wrong. The man so calmly referred to as the hot dog vendor is pawning his wares on unsuspecting frosh. The rock is painted in an outlandish fraternity purple. The university sidewalk sweeper is pleasantly locked in his machine of destruction, doing… Continue reading Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’03
Once again, it seems that the actions of off-campus individuals ruin events for students. In December, the Students’ Union hosted a Snoop Doggy Dogg concert in the MacEwan Hall. As a result of the evening’s actions, the SU has decided to no longer invite any gangster-rap entertainers to the campus.The concert was well attended, with… Continue reading Campus crime
I’ve never been one for love stories, but Steven Shainberg’s Secretary left me with that warm, fuzzy feeling that only an S&M love story can give you. Adapted from a short story by Mary Gaitskill, Secretary follows twenty-something Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a cutter fresh out of the psych ward, in her search for a… Continue reading Secretary
How Ryan Gosling went from Breaker High to this is beyond me. The former A-Channel shipmate plays Daniel Balint, an intelligent young up-and-comer in New York’s fascist underground. His well-spoken arguments and strong anti-Semitism soon attract larger audiences, eager to hear his misguided rantings. With a little bit of guidance from the leaders of an… Continue reading Believer
By James Keller
Let’s make two things perfectly clear: First, Bowling for Columbine doesn’t serve as a rock-solid argument for gun control. And second, it was never meant to.Instead, Michael Moore’s latest documentary chronicling America’s violent gun culture serves as an insightfully clever and painfully descriptive ethnography of the people behind the gun lobby, the American pro-gun movement,… Continue reading Bowling for Columbine