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Feb 1st, 2010 |
Category: Beating Boredom, Blogs
Oh why hello there dear readers. Hope all of you are doing splendidly. It’s that time again, time for another lovely suggestion of how you can possibly fill your time if you are as bored as I am.
As we are completely immersed in the digital age these days, some of you may scoff as you [...]
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Catcher, England, everything, Finn, George Orwell, Harry Potter, help, intelligent conversations, J.D. Salinger, Jane Austen, Janet Evanovich, Julian Rubinstein, Katherine Stockett, Lee, Library, library card, literacy rate, Mark Twain, moving to england, nerds, R.I.P, Reservation Road, Richard Yates, scoff, series, Stephanie Plum, Stephen King, Terry Goodkind, time, William Faulkner, world Posted in Beating Boredom, Blogs |
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Jan 18th, 2010 |
Category: Beating Boredom, Blogs, News
I trust everyone has had a lovely holiday season. It feels…nice…to be back. More stressful already than anything but that’s the way the cookie crumbles for now I suppose.
Aside from trying to get settled into my new classes, sadly waving goodbye to all of the free time that I had over the break, it is [...]
Tags: anyone, blog, Calgary, caption, citizen journalism, communication age, copious amounts, culture, Devin, England, fashion, fingertips, free time, Hilton, holiday season, Hollywood, life, Miss Kim Jev, Perez, pros and cons, Reflector, revelation, scene, swigs, swing, Tavi Gevinson, time, Tom Posted in Beating Boredom, Blogs, News |
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Jan 13th, 2010 |
Category: News
While the original target audience for the wildly popular Harry Potter series may have been children, it’s clear that it
has transcended the adolescent world and even made its way onto the Mount Royal campus.
Four MRU professors have contributed academic essays to a recently published book, titled Harry Potter’s World Wide Influence, which will officially launch [...]
Tags: academic conference, academic essays, academic papers, accio, book, caption, conference, Deb Bridge, Diana Patterson, Duncan, England, English, fan conference, film, Harry Potter, harry potter series, influence, J.K. Rowling, Kori Street, Mount Royal, Oxford, oxford england, Patient, series, target audience, Wide, world Posted in News |
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Nov 26th, 2009 |
Category: Beating Boredom
For those of you who know me, you know how much I love music and going to gigs is probably my favourite pastime. However, some of you might be in the same boat as me and prefer different genres of music than your friends, often leaving you missing out on gigs because you don’t fancy [...]
Tags: Calgary, concert, concert experience, different genres of music, England, enjoyment, experience, fandom, favourite, favourite band, genres of music, gig, international bands, moral support, music, musical experience, musical interests, show, someone, tone down, Toronto, town, Vancouver, what the heck, while Posted in Beating Boredom |
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Nov 21st, 2009 |
Category: Blogs, Tuned into Technology
Welcome back to another rousing Tuned into Technology blog. I’ve written about robots, particle acceleration and last week, I focused in on the final frontier. After stumbling around on the Internet, trying to find something different, I found an article focusing on strange weaponry once pondered by the US government.
I am talking really strange weaponry [...]
Tags: Air, article, BBC, bbc article, bbc news, biological weaponry, bomb, Captain Dan McSweeney, combat, document, enemy, England, gay bomb, guy, idea, military, military researchers, non lethal weapons, particle acceleration, proposal document, sunshine project, United States, US, weaponry Posted in Blogs, Tuned into Technology |
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Nov 6th, 2009 |
Category: Blogs, Tuned into Technology
Welcome back to Tuned into Technology, faithful techno lovers and readers of my first blog. Now that the staff of the Reflector is back from the 88th annual Associate Collegiate Press journalism conference in Austin Texas, I will be back to my weekly Friday technology fix.
As I was searching the Popular Science website, I found [...]
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Jul 23rd, 2009 |
Category: News
Gaining exposure in the vast North American music scene is never easy. If your group started out overseas the difficult task can be compounded even further
English indie rock quintet Gomez has been fighting this uphill battle for roughly 12 years, however, drummer Olly Peacock says the group has seen significant strides made in recent times.
“We’re [...]
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Jun 25th, 2009 |
Category: News
After tons of time spent touring across Europe, Woodpigeon, led by Mark Andrew Hamilton return to a festival close the group’s heart. Hamilton recently spoke with The Reflector:
Reflector: Woodpigeon is quite popular in Calgary. Does that add pressure to the band to succeed and set an example for the those that look up to [...]
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Jun 25th, 2009 |
Category: News
Guitarist and vocalist Bob Keelaghan admits that much of the younger crowd known to grace Sled Island venues will be unfamiliar with the inspiration behind his music.
In fact few of the people that will pack into Broken City on Thursday night for the set from Keelaghan’s band — Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir, commonly known as [...]
Tags: 00p, Agnostic, Alberta, AMGC, audience, Bo Diddley, Bob Keelaghan, brevity, Broken City, Calgary, Choir, England, Europe, Gospel, gospel choir, group, hometurf, indie rock bands, Ireland, Judd Palmer, Mountain, music, old blues, Peter Balkwill, show, Sled Island, world war two Posted in News |
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