Our writers are dying. In many ways writers of modern literature are dead as soon as their last work is published. Unlike the music and movie stars of today, the author silently puts their thoughts to work, remaining out of the public eye; the invisible hand behind the most important aspects of the thinking world.… Continue reading Remembering the life and words of J.D. Salinger
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Spun: Jay J. Fresh
Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, look out Calgary it’s Jay J. time. Jay J. Fresh is the sickest, dopest, most illin’ Cow-tizzown rapper arizzound. He’s the baddest gee on the mean streets of the C-dot. His beats are mind blowing– they’re so hot they sound like default FruityLoops samples. Jay J.’s flow is a… Continue reading Spun: Jay J. Fresh
Letter: Be angry, dammit!
By J. Hind
Editor, the Gauntlet, The start of another school year reminds us how horribly inadequate our university really is. The University of Calgary is sadly lacking in some of the most basic student services and facilities resulting in the endless numbers of lineups, overcrowded classrooms, lack of student housing and residences, lack of resources in a… Continue reading Letter: Be angry, dammit!
Spun: Livingston
By Liv Ingram
I’ve seen enough sci-fi to be weary of artificial intelligence anything, but if the future sounds anything like Livingston’s Artificially Intelligent Folk Songs of Canada, Vol. 1 we needn’t worry as much as I thought. I say this because Livingston is an artificially intelligent computer capable of accessing the whole of Canadian folk music history… Continue reading Spun: Livingston
Q&A: Former Blue Jay Gregg Zaun
By Curtis Wolff
In his seven years as a baseball analyst for Sportsnet, Gregg Zaun has developed a straight-talking style has made the former Blue Jays catcher the face of baseball analysis in Canada. The Gauntlet talked to baseball’s Don Cherry ahead of his appearance at the Dinos baseball and fastball fundraising dinner on Feb. 6, covering everything… Continue reading Q&A: Former Blue Jay Gregg Zaun
Religious Discord
I typed “Islam” into the Google Images search engine. A display of violent images were shown: a cartoon of an assassin holding a knife under the words “stay quiet and you’ll be okay,” Adolf Hitler besides the quotation “I am fighting for the work of Allah,” and a fanatic running through a crowded narrow street… Continue reading Religious Discord
In a galaxy where story matters
By Tobias Ma
Happily, no one was trampled or stabbed during last weekend’s Star Wars auditions in the United Kingdom, possibly because the local crazies had been lured away by Black Friday deals. The popular science fiction franchise will expand with a new trilogy, the first of which will hit theaters in 2015. George Lucas will be involved… Continue reading In a galaxy where story matters
Check into the Suburban Motel
By Alicia Ward
George F. Walker is a playwright known for placing people in impossibly complicated situations that only get worse, while presenting his characters and their choices in a way that forbids the audience from judging them. In the University of Calgary drama department plays Problem Child and Risk Everything, the characters RJ and Denise are in… Continue reading Check into the Suburban Motel
Memes, trolls and Dinos
By Andréa Rojas
If your parents went to university, it’s likely that they relied on a phone with a cord to make their weekend plans. For scholars of today, ‘hanging out’ isn’t just isolated to going for wings after class– it might even mean Skype chatting or tweeting. U of C undergrads, however, are finding even more ways… Continue reading Memes, trolls and Dinos
Violent Kin
The brother-sister duo of S.J. and Maygen Kardash that forms Violent Kin have returned to Saskatoon to record and produce from their home studio. People is the second full-length release from Violent Kin, and the result of these recording sessions.From the beginning of the album, it seems that Violent Kin are trying desperately to remind… Continue reading Violent Kin