mmfc.qc.ca French couturier Jean Paul Gaultier, commonly known as fashion’s “enfant terrible,” is currently the subject of an extravagant exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Gaultier has long identified with the city of Montreal, so it’s fitting that our fair city play host to the eccentric designer in[Read More…]
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Summer 2011: When sports spun out of control
Two years ago I spent months engaged in a heated debate about why I love sports. “You should be doing something more important and worrying about the many problems facing the world today,” argued my friend. I responded by saying that sports are a way to escape the trials and[Read More…]
Shyam Patel – VP Finance & Operations
How was your summer? It was extremely busy, but very exhilarating. I consider myself to be a very organized person, so before starting anything new I looked at everything that needed to be fixed. The first thing I did was organize all the material left by my predecessors and right[Read More…]
Peaches and Pork Chops
Monique Evans As summer winds down, one must salvage as much prime barbequeing time as possible. And since Ontario peach season is upon us, why not add a little peach to your pork chop? Follow this fool-proof recipe, and it won’t be long till you’re in maple-peach pork chop heaven.[Read More…]
Planet of the Apes
thegate.ca Director Rupert Wyatt rebuilt the Planet of the Apes series entirely from scratch, making the original series and a one-off Mark Wahlberg remake entirely non-canon. The first movie in a planned reboot series, Rise of the Planet of the Apes introduces the ape Caesar, whose heightened cognition is the[Read More…]
H2Woah
It’s obvious that water falls from clouds as rain drops, but the creators of Smartwater seem to think otherwise. As they cleverly point out on the bottle, “clouds contain nature’s source of water,” so they used this “forgotten” resource to inspire their product. In order to create their pure taste,[Read More…]
Bringing Home the Hardware: MLB Awards
With the end of the baseball season near, many of the playoff races have already been wrapped up, and it’s now time to turn to the major awards and evaluate who the front runners are for the MVP and Cy Young, and if the season were to end today, who[Read More…]
Game of Thrones
sickchirpse.com Amidst all the madness of late spring season finales, television addicts like myself were treated to an unexpected surprise in HBO’s newest show Game of Thrones. Based on a critically acclaimed series of fantasy novels by author and screenwriter George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones has been highly anticipated[Read More…]
Amarula five ways
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my travels, it’s that liquor is really expensive in the Great White North. Shopping for cocktail ingredients fancier than orange soda and vodka will set you back at least fifty bucks. And, by the time you’ve thrown up half of those appletinis you[Read More…]
Roommates Q’s
Remember that roommate rules questionnaire your floor fellow handed out at the beginning of first year? We don’t. We’ve come up with our own replacement, because having roommate squabbles during exams is worse than actually taking exams. If you just discovered that your roommate uses a live rooster as an[Read More…]