By Mike Smith
When the Oilers told people that it was a new year, all they could do was hope that their season would go slightly better than the 2009-2010 campaign. The Oilers faithful did have something to cheer about in the offseason, as they selected Taylor Hall with the first overall pick in the 2010 NHL entry… Continue reading Sportspinion: Oilers rookies need time but show promise
By Ryan Pike
The past year has been strange in Hollywood. There was a lengthy writer’s strike and another horrid Eddie Murphy sci-fi comedy, but 2008 also featured a series of tremendously fun movies. Bolstered by such sure-fire crowd-pleasers as comic book heroism and shock male nudity, this year’s films shoved pretention and nuance aside and said, quite… Continue reading Best in show – Movies
By Jon Roe
Patti Smith, Dream of Life is no ordinary rockumentary or biopic. But because of this, it may have lost some of its general appeal in exchange for an adherence to an ideal. The film develops as a steam of consciousness, which makes it hard to follow. Scenes are connected tangentially, leaving the audience confused. Director… Continue reading Dream of Life more for fans
By Brad Halasz
The University of Calgary Dinos enter Canada West play this year looking to carry last years’ second half surge forward into this campaign. Complicating matters for the team is the loss of former NHLer and short-lived Canadian Interuniversity Sport superstar Jared Aulin and former all-star captain Ryan Annesley. Together Aulin and Annesley combined for 25… Continue reading CIS CANADA WEST MEN’S HOCKEY PREVIEW 2008-09
The Cannes Film Festival has come and gone and golden Oscar has been put away until next spring. With the masses taking refuge in air conditioned cineplexes, summer movie mania is going full tilt. Films released during this season tend to weigh light on complex story lines and deep, compelling characters, instead going for visceral… Continue reading Film Review: Learning tolerence from intolerance
By Kyle Francis, Ryan Pike and Garth Paulson
The Boys – Garth Ennis and Daryck Robertson (Wildstorm) The Boys poses the classic post-Watchmen question: What if superheroes suddenly appeared in a world not unlike our own rather than one where it’s just as likely to get superpowers from a cereal box as an alien spacecraft? In Ennis’ world, someone with the strength to… Continue reading Best of Comics in 2006
The holidays are a prime time for the release of potentially high-quality movies. As studios are aware of the warm-and-fuzzies that are involved in being with various loved ones around this time of year, there are plenty of the usual weepers, family flicks and inspirational Oscar candidates to go see. Thankfully, there are also a… Continue reading Films to fill the Holidays
By Amamda and Kristin VanSteelandt
We all make mistakes. So do the Dinos. Theirs resulted in losses to the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds and Trinity Western University Spartans Oct. 1-2. Still, die-hard fans were out enduring the weather and lame attempts to announce the games. The first half against UBC on Saturday was full of chances and anger for… Continue reading Soccersaurs don’t get the goods
By Emily Senger
A new private for-profit university in Calgary is challenging the conventional lecture-based classroom, which has the Students’ Union concerned about what it means to grant degrees for profit.The privately owned University of Phoenix in Calgary has been open since March 2005, and caters to adult students who work full-time and want to earn business degrees.… Continue reading Education: a right or commodity?
Few things are as great as a folk festival. When you get to attend these folk festivals for free it just sweetens the already saccharine-laced deal. After a hectic week of trying to arrange our media passes for the Gauntlet after they were already supposed to be in. I showed up at Prince’s Island Park… Continue reading Folk Fest Journals: Tired at the folk fest, not tired of the folk fest