It doesn’t matter where people start, paths change and often lead to in interesting places. Winnipeg-based pop-rock duo Keith and Renee know all about it. With their fourth album, Detours, released April 16 on Easily Amused Music, the pair have proved that changing paths is what life is all about. Having moved away from the… Continue reading Keith and Renee make Detours to Kenya
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Theatre Review: Le Gros Spectacle so funny it doesn’t matter whether it makes sense
As the lights dim in the Engineered Air Theatre and the audience hushes, a blonde and a brunette run out on stage. As the two girls, with their suitcase full of props, run away from 1950s small town Alberta the audience disappears from modern day Calgary and together they fall down the rabbit hole.Their feet… Continue reading Theatre Review: Le Gros Spectacle so funny it doesn’t matter whether it makes sense
Letter: Combat apathy
By Renee Mak
Editor, the Gauntlet,Back at the University of Calgary I used to volunteer three times a week with different campus organizations, yet never felt like it was enough to me.It never ceases to amaze me when people ask me not only why I volunteer so much, but why I do it at all. We live in… Continue reading Letter: Combat apathy
Recruiter insists college painting not a scam
Impressionable first-year University of Calgary geomatics student Renee Clarkson said she was definitely interested in a chance to earn more than her friends, all while working outdoors and getting a valuable experience no other university student can dream of. “At first I was a bit skeptical that I would be able to coordinate all painting… Continue reading Recruiter insists college painting not a scam
Upcoming movies a sea of dull
Alas, it’s January, so gird yourselves for the new semester, as well as a month that will offer little in the way of good escapism, new movie-wise. It sounds rather bleak, but take comfort in the fact that there are still plenty of award-nominated and critically-acclaimed films still in theatres. If you still haven’t taken… Continue reading Upcoming movies a sea of dull
Nick and Norah mixes a love story with sketched indie title font
To make a good romantic comedy, you need to get the hell out of Hollywood. There’s nothing there but Botox, Spencer Pratt and loneliness, which is why it’s nice for a movie to go back to the most mythologized city in film and the place where almost all of Woody Allen’s classic tales of love… Continue reading Nick and Norah mixes a love story with sketched indie title font
The Gauntlet’s Oscar Predictions 2007
By Ryan Pike
The 79th Academy Awards take place Sun., Feb. 25 in Hollywood, and the world prepares for a spectacle of celebrities in silly outfits, overwrought acceptance speeches and excessive door prizes. It is, in no uncertain terms, the motion picture industry’s annual celebration of themselves. As usual, there’s a lot of debate on who deserves it… Continue reading The Gauntlet’s Oscar Predictions 2007
Theatre Preview: Dames prepare Gros Spectacle
We live in a society where saying no is the norm. No smoking, no killing hookers: it’s an epidemic. So it’s interesting, and refreshing, to see what saying yes will do for you. “We said yes to everything,” says Brieanna Moench, one half of the Wind-up Dames. “It allowed us to follow our instincts, our… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Dames prepare Gros Spectacle
External seats up for grabs
Tempers flared this week as Students’ Union vice-president external Jen Smith lambasted candidate Mike Soron during the open question period of the SU external election forum. “I’m wondering if this kind of attendance will show what your performance will be like if elected vice-president external next year,” asked Smith, claiming Soron skipped several key events… Continue reading External seats up for grabs
Quality money update
At the Dec. 2003 University of Calgary Board of Governors meeting, the Students’ Union and Graduate Students’ Association successfully proposed they be given $1 million in ‘quality enhancement’ money so students would see benefits in the face of continued tuition increases. In 2004, the initiative continued and the SU and GSA were given $1,645,880. The… Continue reading Quality money update