Throughout the past academic year, McGill students have certainly shown their green thumb: they cultivated 15,721 kg of food to provide fresh and organic produce to local communities; educated 21,000 people about sustainability through presentations, workshops, exhibits, and fairs; created 100 sustainability-related student jobs; and saved the environment from 26,636[Read More…]
Author: Sara Espinal Henao
A legendary film dynasty unveils its prince
Charlie Sheen is clutching a bottle of vodka in one hand, and $800 worth of caviar in the other. The two alternate in entering his mouth. These are comfort foods—the taxi driver was unable to supply the “coke” and “grass” that Sheen initially requested. No, this isn’t TMZ’s latest update.[Read More…]
A History of Violence
“Empire does not require love, only loyalty.” With this, the stage is set. Waiting for the Barbarians is decidedly anti-love, presenting instead a steel-cold latticework of power relations and authoritarian abuse. For Empire imprisons all semblance of humanity, then throws away the key. Treading a thin line between provoking masochism[Read More…]
Hosanna: flaunting convention one dress at a time
The ’70s were a time of societal progress; Quebec’s Quiet Revolution irrevocably altered the political and civil landscape, giving members of the LGBTQ community a foothold in metropolitan life which they had previously been denied. It is at this time of great socio-political upheaval that the title character in Michel[Read More…]
Hilotrons: At Least There’s Commotion
Hilotrons come storming back from a five-year album break with a furiously charged, eclectic new release. At Least There’s Commotion’s 11 tracks weave through various genres, tempos, and themes, undergoing a metamorphosis every time listeners think they have the album figured out. While At Least There’s Commotion begins with the[Read More…]
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (Reissue)
Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 classic Rumours is the best break-up record ever made, as it chronicles the breakdown of relationships between bandmates John McVie and Christine McVie, Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. This month, the band is reissuing the album to coincide with a tour of the U.S. and Canada in[Read More…]
The Reason: Hollow Tree
The Reason, a Canadian five-piece rock group based in Hamilton, Ontario, has created quite a buzz across the country in the last few years following the success of their 2010 album, Fools. With their freshly released 2013 EP Hollow Tree, the band has taken its sound a step further, with[Read More…]
MTL: then and now
ABC:MTL’s urban series is in the final stages of the alphabet, with a collection titled Streetview now showing alongside a third wave of projects exhibited at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). While the months-long ABC works have been crowd-sourced from the Montreal masses, the photos in the exhibit have[Read More…]
No Bibeau? No problem, Redmen cruise past Citadins
The McGill Redmen have played the UQAM Citadins three times this season, and each time, they’ve prevailed. McGill played host to the struggling Citadins at Love Competition Hall over the weekend, routing UQAM 83-68 in the final regular season meeting between the two teams. Second-year forward Nathan Joyal led the[Read More…]
Sports Briefs
Swimming — RSEQ Championships: McGill claims 2nd, 3rd Place – 19 swimmers to attend CIS nationals in March Both swim teams took a dip over the weekend at the annual RSEQ Championships. Disappointed slightly by the teams’ results at the Quebec Cup IV, both squads rebounded, claiming second place in the[Read More…]
