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Open Mic at the Wax Museum
She’s looking across the table at me, but only because she’s trying not to look at him. We met a couple weeks ago at some friend’s friend’s party and got to talking about our mutual hatred of our Russian Lit. conference. (I recognized her right away but I let her[Read More…]
Tax filing for students
As exam time coincides with tax season, filing a tax return is the last thing on students’ minds. It’s unlikely that many students will file before the deadline on April 30. Furthermore, many students think they don’t need to file a tax return because they don’t make enough money to[Read More…]
Politics, porn, and provocative performance
Lisa Graves and Elizabeth Delage / Studio 303 Lisa Graves and Elizabeth Delage / Studio 303 This year’s Edgy Women Festival, a multinational, visual celebration of females and femininity, will showcase the work of a variety of different artists from Japan, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Taking place in[Read More…]
An alien take on the stoner comedy
heyuguys.co.uk Set primarily in the Western United States, Paul is the fish-out-of-water story of Graeme (Simon Pegg) and Clive (Nick Frost), two nerdy British vacationers who embark on a road trip across the West. When they pull over in their RV on a long stretch of desert highway, they come[Read More…]
Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
collider.com Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the theatres, screaming teenagers have come back for the latest supernatural romance thriller. While Catherine Hardwicke’s Red Riding Hood is innovative in that it’s a far cry from the bedtime story you remember from your childhood, the film[Read More…]
Cig funded McGill
mccord-museum.qc.ca ericsquire.com McGill was built with the help of a number of generous patrons. Perhaps one of the most interesting of these benefactors is Sir William Macdonald, a man who made his fortune in the tobacco industry. Macdonald grew up on a farm in rural Prince Edward Island, and donated[Read More…]
Bringing it all back home
McGill Tribune Even to Canucks themselves, Canadian politics can be a vague procession of events that occur in another dimension; somewhere between an ice rink on Jupiter and a Tim Hortons at the end of the universe sits our Parliament. There, people discuss the two topics urgent to the Canadian[Read More…]
James Franco: the patische kid
If given the opportunity to be James Franco for a day, would you take it? He’s creative, sensitive, prolific, and intellectual, but at the same time fashionably disaffected, hinting at a slightly tortured artistic soul. He makes risqué films that screen at Cannes and plans to direct William Faulkner and[Read More…]
Forget road rage, I’ve got Internet rage
I’m among the vast majority of McGill students that don’t own cars. It’s not something I think about a lot, and when I do, it’s to reflect on just how relaxing it is cruising the sidewalks rather than struggling to decipher unintelligible parking signs (what kind of city has parking[Read More…]




