Max Hill
5 Old Technologies You Should Be Using
January 13, 2014Typewriters. If you’ve never used a typewriter before, you might be surprised by how much work you’ll end up doing before you even get to the writing part. You have to physically slide the paper into the machine, measure out the margins and, in some cases, manually replace an ink ribbon. This thing makes noise, too — each key has to be pressed down with enough force to make an imprint on the page, and there’s no such thing as a delete key. However, what these machines lack in practicality, they make up in style — unlike your average laptop,…
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Ten Manliest Movies
January 13, 2014The Maltese Falcon It would be sacrilege to snub Bogie on this list, and though Casablanca is my personal favourite of his, The Maltese Falcon trades the former film’s subtlety and beauty for hard-boiled detective story charm. Humphrey stars as Sam Spade,…
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How to tie a bow tie
January 13, 2014Step One: Drape the bow tie around your neck and hold both the ends. Make sure the right end is about an inch longer than the left. Step Two: Cross the long end over the short end so that the two…
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A Look Back at 2013
January 6, 2014That’s right, 2013 is finally over — and after 365 days of international espionage, prime time twerking, and endless Rob Ford updates, most of you will probably be jumping for joy to think of the fresh new year ahead of…
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Coming Attractions
January 6, 2014Say it to yourself out loud: twenty fourteen. It seems downright crazy that the human race has made it this far. Then again, the twerk-tastic year we’re leaving behind is hardly one most of us are likely to miss…
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The best albums of 2013
January 6, 201410. Haim – Days Are Gone In terms of plain and simple fun this year, no record beats Days Are Gone. From its opening synths, which are as warm and cheesy as baked macaroni, the three Haim sisters — along…
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Buying your own water
November 25, 2013Every single year, Nestlé Waters Canada bottles 265 million litres of water from aquifer supplies underneath Hope, British Columbia. That’s enough water to keep a family of four thirst-free for, oh, about 70,000 years. They sell this water to us…
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Album Reviews: One Direction, Death Grips, and a throwback to Interpol
November 25, 2013One Direction - Midnight Memories So, I listened to an entire One Direction album in a single sitting in the quietude of the Bennett Library. I obsessively monitored the volume of the music coming through my headphones so that no one…
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The Last Picture Show
November 12, 2013Who would have dreamed film would die so easily?" – Roger Ebert It’s 9:30 a.m. and I’m about to sit down with Rob Groeneboer, one of the Senior Lecturers at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. I’ve come to…
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Album Reviews: Lady Gaga, Sky Ferreira, and a throwback to Outkast
November 12, 2013Lady Gaga - ARTPOP Fame and fortune aside, Lady Gaga’s evolution from fringe freakshow to pop culture queen hasn’t done her any favours. Instead, it’s made her self-referential theatricality the industry expectation: little monsters like Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus have…
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