By Emily Senger
Sexual awareness week 2005 saw women clothed in sheer chain mail parading through MacEwan Student Centre and an adults-only trade show of naughty toys and fetish wear. This year, due to a Students’ Union booking mishap, sexual awareness week 2006 was a lot less sexy.The SU cancelled the sex trade show planned for Tues., Feb.… Continue reading Sexual Awareness Week decidedely un-sexy
Academic decision making at the University of Calgary is being systematically eroded by an administration intent on forcing its own agenda, according to the U of C Faculty Association. In its February newsletter Academic Views, TUCFA blasted U of C administration for using “bullying tactics to get what they want,” and outlined a number of… Continue reading Faculty slams U of C admin
Bob Mould is one of those musicians everyone has felt the impact of but few actually know. Mould, along with drummer/vocalist Glenn Hart and bassist Greg Norton, formed Hüsker Dü in the late ’70s. The band would go on to become one of the most important and influential bands of the ’80s. Major artists like… Continue reading Music Interview: Bob Mould discusses his Body of Song
By Nolan Lewis
There are people who say metal reached its peak in the ’80s. Those people are idiots who have no idea what they are talking about. If it’s proof you want, you’ll receive it when Opeth invades MacHall next week. For the past 15 years the band has led metal with their progressive style of melodic… Continue reading Music Interview: Opeth still strong
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No! It’s the super kids from You Say Party! We Say Die! bounding onto the stage. First comes the guitarist with the bionic shoulders, then the drummer with the Hulk Hogan arms storms on stage while the winged bassist swoops past them.“I suppose Becky [Ninkovic] would have a cuddly… Continue reading Don’t die at this party!
By Janice Tran
Wolves are pretty popular these days. Or at least bands with wolf names are. With rising success for wolf named bands such as Wolf Parade, Wolf Eyes, The Wolfnote and many others, it’s not hard to imagine the members of We Are Wolves might be getting tired of the comparisons to their wolf-like counterparts. “We’ve… Continue reading Music Interview: Dance music for the lupine among us
As the lights dim in the Engineered Air Theatre and the audience hushes, a blonde and a brunette run out on stage. As the two girls, with their suitcase full of props, run away from 1950s small town Alberta the audience disappears from modern day Calgary and together they fall down the rabbit hole.Their feet… Continue reading Theatre Review: Le Gros Spectacle so funny it doesn’t matter whether it makes sense
By Ryan Pike
Jake and the Fat Man. Batman and Robin. Farley and Spade. The Odd Couple. The world has encountered many great pairings who, despite their obvious differences, have managed to become enormously successful. The good folks at Ground Zero Theatre and Vertigo Mystery Theatre hope this trend will continue as they unleash the latest unique couple… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Little Mercy looks to kill
By Kate Foote
Religious experiences have come to signify increasingly bizarre things. The term has recently been used to describe the emotion felt upon discovering a grilled cheese sandwich with the likeness of the Virgin Mary on it. However, the archetypal religious experience, many would argue, was Moses’ encounter with the burning bush that spoke to him in… Continue reading Music Interview: Moneen has a religious experience
By Janice Tran
With the heavy advertising the Eco-Club has invested in promoting their Eco-Club Movie Nights, students should be familiar with what these movies are aimed at doing by now. In the hopes of raising awareness of the catastrophic impacts industrialized societies have inflicted on the environment, the Eco-Club is showing a series of three environmental documentaries… Continue reading Film Preview: Eco-Club wants to change the world through film