Coming Attractions
The summer blockbuster. It’s become a staple of the film calendar ever since Steven Spielberg unleashed Jaws on unsuspecting audiences way back in 1975. Since then, the four months between May and August have...
The Reflector
Making the band
When Tim Callaghan, captain of the Mount Royal men’s hockey team, suggested that he receive guitar lessons from fellow team member Adam Knopp he was not expecting the monster creation that would result. Callaghan’s...
Paper plane to Austria
Many of us live the generic school life; wake up, go to class, do homework, and go to work. Not much excitement besides the occasional gathering at the local watering hole, but for one...
To whom it may concern
When 129,000 jobs turned obsolete in January the focus was the economy. Auto sectors, stock markets and inflation rates became topics of popular interest. But amidst attention being shed on these issues there are...
All the right moves
In a time of recession, now more than ever the gap between poverty and big money can be seen. When looking at sports it is sometimes unfathomable to see how much some athletes are...
Kings of the court
Depth, unselfishness and good old-fashioned hard work have led the Cougars men’s basketball team to its first Canadian Colleges Athletic Association national title in 40 years. Head coach Marc Dobell said...
Behind the scenes
Any Mount Royal Cougars game, final result or special event doesn’t happen without the knowledge of events and communications coordinator Kyle Henry. Henry graduated from the broadcasting program at SAIT in...
Building up the scene
One of the many constants in life is the proliferation of haters in every city. It doesn’t seem to matter where you live, there’s going to be people who blame the city for everything...
Life on the fringe
Every city has a nitty-gritty underbelly, including our very own conservative Calgary. Infiltrating Inglewood, Calgary’s original downtown core, is the annual dose of the odd and unexpected on stage, known as the Fringe Festival....
Summer heats up at Sled Island
In only two years, Sled Island has firmly established itself as Calgary’s coolest summer festival, a mini version of Texas’s South by Southwest festival that balances music, art, and film from both local and...
