Imagine you’re sitting on the front porch of your farmhouse listening to your big brother play his guitar. It’s a beautiful summer’s evening and you just had an enormous dinner of spaghetti and meatballs. Your mother is sewing up the holes in your socks and your father has pulled out his old trumpet to jam… Continue reading Spun: Amos Lee
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Spun: Eddie Turner
Straight out of the fires of hell comes a smoking new blues recording from American guitarist Eddie ‘Devil Boy’ Turner. The Turner Diaries is his follow up to last year’s successful solo album debut, Rise. Turner’s latest offering is a spicy brew of blues/rock fusion with a strong emphasis on his voodoo-style guitar prowess. Although… Continue reading Spun: Eddie Turner
SPUN: Amos Lee
Amos Lee is the “New Kid on the Block” of slow-jazz. This former school-teacher overflows with a humble and noteworthy talent on his self-titled, debut album. Lee, who opened for Norah Jones on her European and American tours, is undoubtedly a rising-star of the clean, clear, reflective melodies characterizing the genre of folk-jazz. His tunes… Continue reading SPUN: Amos Lee
Spun: Eddie Turner
Eddie Turner is Bon Jovi meets Gospel meets smooth jazz and he’s all business on his debut solo album Rise. Throwing together a crazy mix of hardcore electric guitar and soulful lyrics, Turner’s music takes you on a musical ride that’s hard to forget. Influenced by a vast number of artists in a wide variety… Continue reading Spun: Eddie Turner
U of C professors researching effect of dance on Parkinson’s disease
A research program from the University of Calgary is exploring how dance can help people with Parkinson’s disease. Researchers are hoping that the combination of gross and fine motor skills involved in dance will help strengthen the connections between different parts of the brain so that healthy regions will take on the load from regions… Continue reading U of C professors researching effect of dance on Parkinson’s disease
Measuring Steve Jobs’s greatness
The global mourning over Steve Jobs’s death has made it abundantly clear that the man was respected not only in his home country, but in all parts of the world. Seldom has the world seen such a huge public outpour of grief in recent history, perhaps barring the death of Princess Diana in 1997 (incidentally… Continue reading Measuring Steve Jobs’s greatness
A brief history of gaming
By Nils Olson
Digital games have existed since the development of modern computers. As computers have changed so have the games. They have moved hand-in-hand with computers. From the days of fridge-sized mainframes on university campuses, to the hobbyist computer movement of the 1970s, into our homes, our pubs, our phones, our PDAs–video games have saturated all aspects… Continue reading A brief history of gaming
CYSTIC FIBROSIS: WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
Countless known diseases exist within our society, and we try desperately to cure each one. Hope fades as the lives of those infected are cut short and progress seems crawling at best. To a healthy person, it is hard to keep up with the different forms of disease, and it’s even harder to imagine what… Continue reading CYSTIC FIBROSIS:
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?