Painted in oil: Calgary’s art influenced by oil and gas funding
By Ayra Fouad, Staff Writer In Calgary, it isn’t just the economy that is impacted by the boom and bust cycle of the oil and gas industry. Calgary is home to a vibrant arts...
Category: Arts
How Little Women shows the different sides of feminism
By Mackenzie Gellner, Web Editor Arguably, there is a certain stereotype associated with feminism. However, feminism as a word and a movement merely refers to gender equality, and the right to determine your own...
Album review: Fine Line by Harry Styles
Harry Styles Fine Line Columbia Records Score: A To be honest, I wasn’t a Directioner, but Harry Styles’ Fine Line is slowly turning me into one. I have liked Styles’ songs as a solo...
Album review: No Saints Loading by Manila Grey
Manila Grey No Saints Loading Chaos Club Digital Score: C When I discovered hip-hop duo Manila Grey, I was thrilled. As a Filipino-Canadian myself, it was nice to have a relation to an artist....
Road to riches: Local rapper Yung Dudi storms Calgary’s music scene
By Kemi Omorogbe, Contributor If you want to introduce yourself to new rap music this year, Calgary’s upcoming artists have got you covered. A former aspiring basketball player turned rapper, David Mabu, also known...
Why the Goldsmith award winning book Ducks, Newburyport is worth the struggle to read
By Andi Endruhn, Publishing Editor The fact that it was glowing tomato-red from the shelf when I saw it. The fact that it was approximately the size of a phonebook (if I remember what those...
Why New Year’s resolutions are pointless
By Ayra Fouad, Staff Writer Weeks before the Times Square ball drop, every Instagram caption seemed to take up some variation of, “New year, new me!” It’s a seemingly harmless and optimistic view of the future,...
New streaming site transports millenials to their childhoods
By Mackenzie Gellner, Staff Writer Lizzie, Hannah, Raven, Zach and Cody: if those names bring back a flood of childhood memories, then Disney+ is for you. Nostalgia is a powerful tool, to which Disney+ utilizes...
What I learned during an evening with Bill Nye
By Ayra Fouad, Contributor We all remember the good ol’ days in middle school when our teacher would pull out the old box TV cart and pop in an old VHS tape — with our...
Album review: JESUS IS KING by Kanye West
Kanye West JESUS IS KING Def Jam Score: B+ I remembered what the day was like when JESUS IS KING dropped. It was a somewhat chilly morning. I just woke up and I was...
