Album Reviews: Drake, MGMT, and a throwback to Nirvana

Drake - Nothing Was the Same From its impressive 13 track runtime to its album cover — which calls to mind such hip-hop classics as Nas’...

The Femme Project

The term “butch” is often used to label women within queer communities, but when it comes to “femme,” there is a lack of awareness...

Riddick returns to its Pitch Black roots

Bloodied, yet unbowed, Vin Diesel has resurrected another of his franchises that was once bound for extinction. After the abominable 2 Fast 2 Furious,...

Poets Corner: The beauty of any romantic endeavor is its inherent mortality

  The beauty of any romantic endeavor is its inherent mortality.  It is beautiful because it mirrors life: eventually, it will die.  This, Love, is...

Words around Vancouver

At the end of September for nearly the past 20 years, lit lovers and word nerds from all backgrounds gather at Library Square for...

In Review: the Vancouver Fringe Festival

6 Guitars This one-man show about the power of music as a universal language has writer Chase Padgett portraying six different characters, all playing a...

Album Reviews: Elvis Costello and The Roots, Neko Case, and a throwback to Brian Eno

Elvis Costello and The Roots - Wise Up Ghost It shouldn’t work. Elvis Costello, the angry young man turned cantankerous cynic behind some of the best...

Take me to the mountains

To all my fellow SFU classmates that feel homesick for powder covered slopes, who sometimes wish they had been a ski bum rather than...

Open, close

  When someone close tells me they’re a terrible liar, I can’t help but wonder if they’re a really good liar and if I would trust-fall into...

To be or not to be

What if Shakespeare lived today as a university student? What if he studied with Ben Johnson and Chris Marlowe, and what if the head...