By Adam Marofke
Lost in a sweaty and throbbing mob, awash with eerily luminescent lights, you are blasted with bone-rattling bass and ear-piercing screeches, all while dancing to the commands of a shadowy figure with long, dark hair. No, this is not a ghoulish dream — this is a Wednesday night Skrillex set. The Oct. 19 Calgary show… Continue reading Concert review: Skrillex
By Adam Marofke
The University of Calgary Ski Club made a $6,500 donation to the Heart and Stroke Foundation on March 25. The donation was made in memoriam of former ski club president Eric Lahoda, who passed away in 2008 from cardiac arrest after skiing at Lake Louise. Current Ski Club president Dylan Heerema remembers Lahoda fondly. “Eric… Continue reading Ski Club gives $6,500 to Heart and Stroke
By Adam Marofke
Momentum just keeps building for the Rural Alberta Advantage. Their debut LP, Hometowns, rode a slow building wave of success and ended up on several best-of lists for 2009. This year, the trio of Paul Banwatt, Nils Edenloff and Amy Cole returned with their sophomore effort Departing, a companion piece to their debut. “They are… Continue reading The Rural Alberta Advantage
By Adam Marofke
Right in the middle of an abnormally long Alberta winter, the Rural Alberta Advantage return with a wintery album. From the driving-in-a-whiteout front cover to the numerous icy references throughout the LP, Departing plays like a counterpart to the late summer sunset that was their first album, Hometowns. On Departing, the band stays close to… Continue reading Spun: Rural Alberta Advantage
By Adam Marofke
To all skiers and snowboarders, the allure of a slope blanketed in fresh powder cannot be denied, sometimes even when those first tracks and blissful turns lay just beyond the ski area boundaries. At the popular Banff ski area Sunshine Village, a number of veteran patrollers were abruptly dismissed soon after they caught the owner’s… Continue reading Not so sunny times at Sunshine Village
By Adam Marofke
With a provincial election looming in the not-too-distant future, the Alberta political climate is heating up. Both the Alberta Liberal party and upstart Wildrose Alliance are clamoring for voter support in the wake of Progressive Conservative Premier Ed Stelmach’s Jan. 25 announcement that he will not attempt another bid for office. That same day, Wildrose… Continue reading Online Exclusive: Wildrose encourages debt forgiveness
By Adam Marofke
A recent Arctic Council agreement has ratcheted up Canada’s commitment to international cooperation for search and rescue efforts in its northern territories. While the legally binding agreement will not be signed until the next Council’s ministerial meeting May 12, coordination has already begun between effected national Coast Guards. The December 2010 agreement will work to… Continue reading Arctic Council creates rescue plan
By Adam Marofke
Coming off their successful 2007 LP In Ghost Colours, Australian electro-pop outfit Cut Copy return with Zonoscope. The album continues in the same vein as their previous two full-lengths, dishing out 11 tracks of blissful, dance-floor ready jams. The album’s opener, “Need You Now” builds up all through its six minutes to swirling waves of… Continue reading Spun: Cut Copy