Craigslist can be a curious place, with ads often viewed with much suspicion and wariness.
While I was abroad in first year, the idea of “couchsurfing”, crashing on a stranger’s couch, to experience a foreign European city from a local’s perspective greatly appealed to me.
In the end, my doubts tempered...
Khaled Hosseini’s third book, And the Mountains Echoed, is another tearjerker filled with heartbreaking emotions and the theme of redemption. Hosseini rose to fame with the phenomenal success of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, which depicted the war-torn terrain of a wounded Afghanistan,...
Sometimes, it’s okay to judge an album by its cover. The Walkmen’s newest album Heaven is one of those cases.
The Walkmen hail from both New York City and Philadelphia and originally formed in 2000 with Paul Maroon, Walter Martin and Matt Barrick of the band Jonathan Fire*Eater. The two others, Peter...
By Jessica Chong
Blogs Editor
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, and Baz Luhrmann’s movie adaption can hardly be compared -– while entertaining and elaborate, the film doesn’t stay true to the text.
Luhrmann, the film’s director and producer, caters to the pop culture appetites of...
It’s a tale of elegant radicals where the classic is brought together with the avant-garde — and it’s uniquely Vogue.
From dizzyingly dramatic dance numbers to sassy sashays down the runway, this year’s Vogue Charity Fashion Show stepped up to fulfill the creative requirements of their theme — Victoriana:...
It’s uncomfortably good.
This year’s production of Down There was unnerving for me and the performances left me haunted.
The show includes several monologues that detail stories submitted by Queen’s students.
Down There was created last year after a change of name and direction from the previous productions...
Can we trust our own memory?
It’s a question that Kelsey-Lynn Corradetti and Emma Kent’s new exhibit In the Wake of poses, bringing together themes of human recollection and its constantly changing nature. The entrance to the Union Gallery practically frames the largest piece in the Main Space, titled...
Sober review
Hybrid music, comedy and drunk theatre show Queen’s Players is a loud and fun time — whether you’re stone sober or enjoying a little too much gin and juice.
Never Say Neverland Ranch meshes together multiple reality shows including The Surreal Life and Scared Straight in an attempt to...
Devin Clancy
Contributor
If The Beach Boys and Simon & Garfunkel had a love child, its name would surely be Fleet Foxes. With the release of their self-titled debut album in 2008, Fleet Foxes mixed woodland harmonies with folk-infused acoustic guitar riffs. Lyrical hooks were grounded in themes...
Mike Arnold midfielder, men’s soccer
The Gaels captain scored about a third of the 8-5-1 soccer team’s goals this season. He was the lone Queen’s player to be nominated as an OUA First-Team All-Star after he finished the season in the top three of OUA scoring with nine goals in 14 games.
It was a...
Movie: Biutiful
Starring: Javier Bardem
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Duration: 148 minutes
4 out of 5 stars
Uxbal’s life is not beautiful. But after we witness his experiences, our lives feel very much so. Biutiful gives you that tragic exhilaration we thought only existed in Holocaust movies....