By Chris Adams
Remember the guy on eBay who traded up from a paperclip to a house? There’s a contest sort of like that, except three Students’ Union executives will have to barter their way across Europe with only 24 cans of Red Bull. Red Bull’s Can You Make It? event challenges 100 teams to travel from one… Continue reading How to make it to Berlin with Red Bull
By Riley Hill
Campus Security is enforcing a break-dancing ban in MacHall that started in late February. After talking with leaders from a local club, members of Campus Security, and some of the regular dancers from the stage, the Students’ Union says they don’t like the ban, but there’s not much they can do about it. As it… Continue reading Break dance ban enforced in MacHall
By Ashton Chugh
Justice Rosemary Nation sentenced Bradley Rietze to an automatic life term, without parole for a minimum 25 years, after he admitted to raping and killing 17-year-old Brittney McInnes on January 17, 2010. Her sister, brother and aunt found McInnes’s half-naked body in the box spring of her bed in their home in S.W. Calgary. In… Continue reading The grim reality of capital punishment
By Tendayi Moyo
Amidst what some are calling Cold War level tensions, President of the United States Barack Obama is reported to have drunk dialed President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. Following a state dinner and a few nightcaps with vice-president Joe Biden, Obama left Putin an emotional and profanity-laced voicemail at 3:30 a.m. Eastern time. In… Continue reading Obama drunk dials Putin
The latest album from Juno-nominated group Wake Owl, The Private World Of Paradise, is a dreamier take on average indie music. Smoother and more soft spoken, the album is defined by its hypnotic and serene mood, created by faded instrumentals and light vocals that the indie genre seems to be so fond of. Rhythmic acoustic… Continue reading Spun: Wake Owl
By Katy Pham
Chance To Fate echoes out familiar emotions, as if the trio behind indie folk band the Olympic Symphonium is capturing our collective moments of self-doubt, loneliness and homesickness and putting them into a single album. Instead of being depressing, it serves as a call to “Seize The Day” — fittingly positioned as the album’s first… Continue reading Spun: The Olympic Symphonium
At first glance, it’s obvious that Bend Sinister’s new album Animals will go in some interesting directions. The cover shows the band in a ’70s-era rumpus room filled with kitschy decorations and taxidermied animals — a polar bear head adorns one of the keyboards and there are wolfskin rugs and foxes wearing sunglasses. And that’s… Continue reading Spun: Bend Sinister
When first-year engineering student Chris Bell gets up on stage in the Libin Theater on March 28 to sing a rendition of Michael Buble’s “Just Haven’t Met You Yet,” he will be fulfilling a lifetime hobby and passion. “I’ve sang for as long as I can remember,” Bell says. “I remember singing in kindergarten. There… Continue reading U of C singing contest back for seventh season
By Sean Willett
Dark Souls 2 is to other video games what university is to elementary school. In most games the player’s hand is held tightly as they are guided from one sanitized experience to another. The game acts as a patient, kind teacher to the gurgling child player. These games — much like Grade 2 — take… Continue reading Game review: Dark Souls 2
This year’s Mainstage Dance production features two firsts: it is the first Mainstage Dance from the newly formed School of Creative and Performing Arts and the first time that Wojciech Mochniej is the artistic director for the production. Two of the four performances include original music from University of Calgary graduate students. The first performance… Continue reading Mainstage Dance
