Comedic Fringe

Anatolia Speaks – 3 stars Anatolia is a Bosnian refugee who gives a presentation to her Canadian ESL class. It begins with the basics of...

Sleater-Kinney: the best band you’ve never heard

Never mind the Sex Pistols; forget the Ramones. When it comes to punk rock, there never was a better band than Sleater-Kinney1. Two guitars and...

MFA Students show off their final projects at the Audain Gallery

Enjoy an evening of art, cheese, wine, and mingling with our MFA Graduate students during their opening reception of Lossless on September 10 in...

Album review: The New Pornographers – Brill Bruisers

Brill Bruisers, The New Pornographers’ sixth studio album and first in four years, is simultaneously an impressive return to form and a progression of...

Cloudy, with a chance of face

Since his debut at Music Waste in 2011, Cloudface (aka David Reynolds) has become a figure of local music folklore. With only a handful...

The Terrors of terrorism

What do you think when you hear the word jihad? Is it a brown-skinned, long-bearded man screaming “allahu akbar” with a bomb strapped to...

Life After Beth: a zom-rom-com that lacks depth

Life After Beth`s overblown tone is as forced and unbearable as trying to urinate kidney stones. The movie’s central pitfall is analogical to an...

Five films to help you find your silver lining

As we all know, the right kind of movie can give us feelings of hope that rekindle the strength to reach our highest potential...

PNE: Why Game of Thrones, why Mosaic Music Series, why now?

Sex, violence, and war have been a recent recipe for many television series — it seems that without any one of these, a series...

Five fall albums to look forward to

Aphex Twin – Syro Holy shit, seriously? Even Richard D. James’ most diehard fans long ago gave up hope that the mercurial madman would ever...