By Ben Rowe
We have been watching James Bond on the big screen for 50 years. Bond’s adventures began in print, authored by Ian Fleming, nine years earlier. Rooted in the Cold War and modernist ideals of the ’50s and ’60s, the Bond films defined the culture of those decades but have unfortunately struggled with relevancy for years.… Continue reading Film Review: Skyfall
On the 21st of September, New Humanist magazine held a debate at the Royal Society of Arts in London called “After New Atheism: Where next for the God debate?” The speakers put forward variations on a central theme: that the so-called New Atheism of the likes of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris has,… Continue reading The poverty of New Atheism
It’s official, baret-wearing English majors will be grouped in with calculator-carrying economists starting April 1. Well, almost. The highest governing academic body at the University of Calgary, the General Faculties Council, voted to approve the amalgamation of the social sciences, communication and culture, humanities and fine arts faculties into one arts faculty — a model… Continue reading Arts amalgamation passes
The highest academic governing body at the University of Calgary will vote Thursday on whether or not to lump 60 per cent of all students into one faculty. The move, which is expected to pass with a majority after a discussion at General Faculties Council, would see social science, humanities, fine arts and communication and… Continue reading The art of amalgamating faculties
By Janice Tran
To Kill a Mockingbird is a piece of literature that anyone in North America with a high school diploma should be familiar with. Over 30 million copies of Harper Lee’s original novel have been sold since its publication in 1960. The book has won countless literary awards, among which is the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Even… Continue reading Workshop Theatre brings a literary classic to town
By Jon Roe
Campus Calgary Digital Library, groundbreaking ceremony: Mar. 31, 2006. That was then. Taylor Family Digital Library, groundbreaking ceremony: spring 2008. This is Now. The outside community may need repeated groundbreaking ceremonies and front-page Calgary Herald stories on funding to bring their gaze back to the University of Calgary, but the general university population needs no… Continue reading Editorial: Deferred university
By Emily Senger
In what has become a yearly occurrence, a room of some of Calgary’s most prominent and influential citizens voted to raise tuition for students at the University of Calgary last week. The U of C board of governors raised tuition by 3.3 per cent for all undergraduate and graduate students Thur., Jan. 25. The increase… Continue reading Tuition goes up… again
Chris Frye embodies the western Canadian musical ideal. Growing up in Creston B.C. and playing guitar for the jazzy Marc Atkinson Trio, Frye went on to do lead vocals and guitar for the Bill Hilly Band, (also known as the Bills). While busy enough with the Bills and a side project called the Analog Ghosts,… Continue reading Dixie Fryeíd
Finally, a popular book published about art history that won’t have art historians tearing their hair out and screaming uncontrollably (Read: Da Vinci Code). The Lost Painting is a non-fiction account that never reads like a textbook, yet retains the wonderment reserved for true stories. Harris describes the research process, the trials and tribulations of… Continue reading Dan Brown gets served
Everyone has to grow up sometime. Applied to music, this statement often isn’t a positive thing. There are too many bands who’ve “matured” into boring acts, but, rarely some maturation will do a band good. The Thermals’ latest album, The Body, the Blood, the Machine fits this rare mold. Up to now, The Thermals were… Continue reading Spun: The Thermals