Month: January 2004

By Rob Scherf

I’m staring at my computer screen and I honestly have no idea what I’m supposed to be writing here. I saw Ginger Snaps 2 almost three weeks ago and every couple of days since then I’ve opened up the ol’ word processor and tried to get down my thoughts about it. The bitch is totally… Continue reading Snap, crackle, suck

By Alan Cho

The sky was like damp concrete, sprinkled with the cobalt shards of a gin bottle tossed away by someone who had long moved on to more temperate climates. Men and women, disheveled and rumpled, shuffled to late meetings or classes. They will apologetically mouth the words “traffic” and offer a helpless shrug to the person… Continue reading Shisha and donair

By Alan Cho

Even in his shirt, spotted with year-old inkblots and stains from the local Taco Bell, I could tell he was a man exposed once, for a brief moment, to the secrets of the cosmos. Scrawled across his face, the wrinkles would twist into hieroglyphics when he mumbled lessons on life. He explained the world of… Continue reading Fractured visions from Vazan

By Alan Cho

My testicles begin to defrost when beloved Calgary playwright Eugene Stickland jokingly promotes this year’s crop of plays going up at Alberta Theatre Projects’ playRites festival to our more reluctant readers. With a new play, All Clear, opening during the festival, Stickland is pulling out all the stops. Well, except the nude card. He quickly… Continue reading Eugene Stickland on playwriting, CNN and nudity

By Jeff Kubik

To your right! To your left! Don’t stop looking, if you’re not careful you’ll miss it all. Festivals are fantastic spectacles, they’re fun because they’re so overwhelming. Too large to take in all at once, you have to pace yourself or, like your mother always warned you, you’ll make yourself sick. The ones we’re most… Continue reading Playrites

By Ben Li

Many students probably received CDs, DVDs, or some kind of electronic device that uses optical discs of various flavours during the recent holiday season. Brisk sales of consumer and computer optical disc players and recorders–driven by commodification of computing devices capable of producing large quantities of data–means we are increasingly reliant on the contents of… Continue reading TLC for CDs and DVDs

Want to know what the stars say about your future, but still think Western astrology is a lot of hooey? Perhaps you need to try some traditional Chinese astrology, with a proven track record of over 5,000 years. You may be able to remember all the animals for all 12 years in the cycle, but… Continue reading Horoscopes: Chinese style

By Andrew Ross

All may be fair in love, but not in war. As the title suggests, the recent Red Cross "Even Wars Have Limits" symposium–held at the University of Calgary’s Rosza Centre–dealt with issues related to the conduct of hostilities. In particular, the symposium focused on International Humanitarian Law and the challenges faced by the Red Cross… Continue reading Even Wars Have Limits