Just ahead of the most joyous time of the year, the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced their full lineup. This year’s iteration brings together diverse films from around the world and the province, curating a festival that can’t be missed this year. This year continues the
After weeks of workshopping, filming and creative juices flowing, NUTV’s Student Film Festival is fast arriving. The festival will be composed of submissions and the results of their summer workshop series. One of the films premiering is Dirty Little Animals directed by J. L. McLean, the perfect blend between
On August 9, Serena Williams announced her plans for retirement following the U.S Open in September. The announcement was made through a Vogue letter reflecting not on her career, but on her evolution as a tennis player, businesswoman and mother. By this point, Williams is a household name for
Cancel culture has long confounded the internet. The original premise is easy to follow — a form of accountability whereby individuals who have behaved problematically are publicly highlighted in an attempt to incite change. In recent years, the idea of cancelling someone has warped into a phenomenon involving calling out problematic
It’s a story we’ve all heard before — a couple of friends getting together in a garage to make some music. This story, as cliché as it is, is the foundation for some of the most memorable bands to grace the punk scene and continues to be the basis
Dave the shark is an ancient shark skeleton from Morden, Manitoba, originally found in 1975. However, Dave remained in storage at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre for 40 years — until he was rediscovered and let out of hiding. Now, he is proudly on display and ready to be further studied.
How does a play about an orphaned founding father become one of the most well-known musicals in our modern age? The answer is by reinventing what it means to be a sung-through musical and shift understandings of both American history and modern Broadway. Hamilton has become, without a
A new dinosaur named the Meraxes giga has been discovered in Argentina by a team of international scientists. The study was published on Current Biology on July 7. The dinosaur is said to have lived in the Patagonia region of Argentina during the late Cretaceous period, almost 94 million years
Calgary’s music scene is often delegated to whatever post-punk or indie band is appearing on your radar, but it would be disingenuous to say that’s all you have to look forward to. For those of us with an affinity to pop, there’s an artist on the
The Calgary Folk Music Festival is probably the second-most wonderful time of the year, next to Christmas. There’s a certain je ne sais quoi about the festival whenever it comes around — it invites residents of all walks of life to spend an afternoon lazing on the grass, eating