By Todd Jackson
Unlike many written works, a newspaper aspires to be an active component in the infrastructure of the community. Rather than generating paragraphs to be privately considered, a newspaper should be a public work that serves as a conduit for thoughts.Often it’s as simple as a basis for discussion. The paper supplies a thought that can… Continue reading Ranting letters reveal emotion not argument
By Jason Carnew
Editors, the Gauntlet,Re: “Lycra-loving men forge the fashion world,” Sept. 14, 2000Dear Todd Jackson,It is a pleasure to realize there still are many redneck Calgarians alive and well. (By the way, when did you manage to learn to stop walking on all fours and learn to write?) Having travelled around the world (you do know… Continue reading With letters comes condemnation
By Todd Jackson
My Dad never ventures far from the straight and narrow when it comes to fashion. Nothing too ambitious really. Pants that fit and a shirt tucked into them with a collar and buttons down the front. Shoes and a belt. These are the boundaries and he wants it that way because he doesn’t have to… Continue reading Lycra-loving men forge the fashion world
By Todd Jackson
I can hardly forget the joy that filled my heart when I connected to the Internet for the first time. Whoo-ah! Try to understand that I started typing on a VIC-20. Then I made the bold step to second generation DOS. And here I was a couple years later and my computer could actually suck… Continue reading Save yourself, kill your Internet habit
By Todd Jackson
Maybe the rest of you have found a way to fit them into your understanding of Calgary. Maybe they slip smoothly into your day and you don’t even notice them anymore. But I’m just starting to get used to the fake cows downtown.My favourite one has to be "Automoobile" at 4 Ave. & 3 St.… Continue reading Urban cows migrate into hearts and minds
By Todd Jackson
Sunday, 1 p.m.: Good, but not great. I had a more pensive direction in mind for this album–you know, a subtle judgment of millennial Canada. Tragic but not as tragic as Day for Night almost the poetic stance of Phantom Power but more mature. Tuesday, 9 p.m.: Hold it, guitars arguing–yeah, yeah. Grind, grind! Work,… Continue reading Tragically Hip — Music @ Work
By Todd Jackson
As a boy, I didn’t read Anne of Green Gables much. I confess I never could make sense of all the attention given to Lucy Maud’s work. Anne is, without question, cute and precocious, but not enough to carry the story. Granted, I never did understand the intimacy between those P.E.I. schoolgirls. I, too, had… Continue reading Top Gun, Anne of Green Gables quite gay
By Todd Jackson
We like singers, sure. But we absolutely love singers who make us randy. Consider the young and eager Britney Spears. She brought a new album out this month and her last one sold nine million copies. She’s hardly alone. ‘N Sync, Shania Twain, Ricky Martin: hugely popular and obviously sexy.I became wise to this trend… Continue reading Britney should just get naked already
By Todd Jackson
Rob Anders, MP for Calgary-West, gave a stern smack last week to NUTV, the Students’ Union, CJSW and other University of Calgary organizations. Each year these groups rely on federal money to support the creation of student summer jobs, but this year Mr. Anders put his foot down and declined the funding. Although campus organizations… Continue reading Anders prefers money to good music
By Todd Jackson
Ten years ago, the Skydiggers began to perform at a time when strange things were happening to the Canadian music scene. From the ashes of Glass Tiger and Honeymoon Suite came a few bands which developed into a full blown, though elusive, musical tradition–elusive, because they are not bands which have always garnered a lot… Continue reading I wanna reach for the sky