Singer-songwriter Lorde, born Ella Yelich-O’Connor, went from a relative unknown to an at times controversial musical icon with three albums under her belt: her painfully genuine debut Pure Heroine, the critically acclaimed Melodrama and her latest album Solar Power, full of quickly snuffed out promise. This August,
The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is one of the most anticipated annual events in Calgary through its role as a celebration of independent and local filmmakers. One of the most exciting aspects of the festival is the unique films it offers, from documentaries to arthouse films to animated shorts
By Ansharah Shakil, Daman Singh, Valery Perez, Avery Sharpe, Manuela Albarracin, Sheroog Kubur, Malea Nguyen and Dianne Miranda— As September approaches, the hustle across campus is about to get real. With schedules filling up and classes calling your name, those walks from one end of the campus to the other
On Aug. 30, Cirque du Soleil began its six-week run of the internationally acclaimed show KOOZA, presented by Sun Life, performing under the Big Top on Stampede Park. The opening night of the show held plenty of treats for attendees, from free Village Ice Cream to the circus’s
1. Pick a cursed Glee Cast cover. a) “Teenage Dream” b) “Thriller/Heads Will Roll” c) “Run Joey Run” d) “Don’t Stop Believin’“ 2. Your favourite go-to drink is a _____. a) Smoothie b) Boba c) Coffee d) Water 3. Which decade would you rather live in? a) 70s
Being a first year at a university is nothing like the movies, no matter how many characters you’ve seen having a perfect first year at a college or university. Sometimes, things don’t live up to your expectations, but you can still hope for that movie magic moment. This
Carly Rae Jepsen first started dropping B-sides from her album when she released the B-side to her 2015 album Emotion a year later, a tradition she continued with her 2019 album Dedicated and its 2020 B-side. She had fans on the edge of their seats after the
The first white dwarf pulsar was discovered in 2016 when it was the first of its kind ever to be found in the universe. Back then, finding one was a major accomplishment. Now, seven years later, a second white dwarf pulsar has been found. Pulsars are spinning neutron stars and
“In the beginning,” said the narrator in Greta Gerwig’s latest film Barbie, released July 21, “there was Barbie.” And before Barbie, there was a series of Barbie animated films, vlogs, shows and a line of dolls that stretched back to 1959, when Ruth Handler created the first Barbie doll.
On the 100th anniversary of celebrated Canadian writer Winnifred Eaton’s Alberta-based novel Cattle, Onoto Watanna’s Cattle @ 100, a conference discussing her legacy, took place on July 27 until July 30 at the University of Calgary and Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre, gathering scholars and descendants from around the