By Kelsey Hipkin
I don’t like coffee.
Because of this I’ve been called a “freak of nature” by one friend and been given looks of incredulousness from others. Most just shake their head with misunderstanding like I’m just not the brightest crayon in the box and am missing out on the most sacred of things…in this case, [...]

by Kelsey Hipkin
As you may have read in the features section, Alberta as a province holds a vast and sometimes quirky collection of sights to see. If you’re a sports fan and you feel like stretching those proverbial travel legs (as well as your travel wallet), why not check out some of sports most coveted spots? [...]

by Sean-Paul Boynton
Before punk was punk and rock was pop, before dyed hair and eyeliner and “Jesus of Suburbia,” there was Iggy Pop and the Stooges, the most dangerous band in the world.
Forget the Rolling Stones and their jaunty blues-ramblings laced with sex, or Jim Morrison’s Oedipal fantasies and proclamations to the dark centre of [...]

by Selina Renfrow
I’ve been called a whore, but I’m not. However, I’ve wondered from time to time what it would be like to be paid for sex.
Recently a friend suggested watching the British TV show Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Not because we were talking about becoming prostitutes – we were talking about my [...]

by Katie Turner
While the works of William Shakespeare are known around the world, this summer, Mount Royal University’s Shakespeare in the Park will feature the world premiere of the Bard’s newly discovered play.
Scholars are newly crediting the play Double Falsehood to Shakespeare and fellow playwright John Fletcher, rather than the Shakespearean editor Lewis Theobald. After following the story [...]

Choice Cut
by Sean-Paul Boynton
It takes some serious guts, or maybe just a missing inner sense of concision,
to put out a triple album as a studio recording of new material. The two most famous examples – The Clash’s Sandinista! and George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass – represent the two ends of the spectrum that could [...]

By Devin Ayotte

Internationally renowned journalist Gwynne Dyer visited Mount Royal University to share his views on climate change and the results of U.S. President Barack Obama’s first year in office.
Dyer, who spoke at MRU on Feb. 5, holds a PhD in military and Middle Eastern history from King’s College in London and is a [...]

It’s a beautiful thing to live in a society where our biggest grievance is parking.
Think about it.
Sure, it’s unfair and unfortunate that people who parked facing the wrong way in park & ride lots were issued $50 tickets.
Eventually the tickets were rescinded because the Calgary Parking Authority (CPA) realized they looked greedy and ridiculous.
You’ve probably [...]

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 [...]

Choice Cut: The Flaming Lips      Embryonic       Warner Bros.
Back in the days of vinyl, when rock bands were becoming more and more ambitious, the idea of a double album was exciting and intrigu­ing. With four sides of plastic to fill, musi­cians were able to dump in everything they were trying at the time, or finally execute [...]