By Riley Hill
The University of Calgary Gymnastics Club announced plans last week to host an elite gymnastics competition called the University of Calgary International Cup. The competition will be held on campus March 21–23, 2014. According to chief advisor of the U of C Gymnastics Club Tony Smith, the event will bring world-class gymnasts to Calgary while… Continue reading New U of C gymnastics competition announced
As Major League Baseball passes the mid-season break and heads towards the final third of the regular season, some teams are exceeding their pre-season expectations and some teams are underperforming. There are several surprise teams in the middle of the playoff hunt. For example the Boston Red Sox, riddled with injuries throughout the 2012 season… Continue reading MLB mid-season review
Vaccines are a necessary part of living in communities where infectious diseases could flourish. Yet some people have called into question the safety of vaccines and refuse to get their children vaccinated. Some opponents to vaccines cite a now-discredited academic paper published by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 that claimed the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine… Continue reading Needles are scary, but not this scary
Each of us attempts to open a dialogue or form a deal with our absolute reality at some point in our lives. We attempt to bargain with the randomness of everyday events, no matter how illogical the attempt may be. Stand-up poet Rob Gee, who spent 11 years working as a nurse in an acute… Continue reading Celebrating our collective psychosis
Monster Theatre artistic producer and actor Tara Travis says that after artistic director Ryan Gladstone finished writing the screenplay for Til Death: The Six Wives of Henry VIIIshe hated him. Travis plays seven characters in the play — Henry VIII and his six wives. “I never would have thought I was physically capable of doing… Continue reading Tossed around the stage
Jack Freiberger’s critically acclaimed one-man show, They Call Me Mister Fry, is coming to the Calgary Fringe Festival. The show is the true story of Freiberger’s time working as a Grade 5 teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, his relationship with two challenging students and the ways they each affect the other’s lives.… Continue reading All the classroom’s a stage
While leaving the theatre after The Wolverine, I felt mildly disappointed. There was nothing particularly wrong with the movie and it was better than X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but the film adaptation of Wolverine’s “Japanese saga” did not live up to my expectations. And to be fair, the film had the… Continue reading Film review: The Wolverine