Tag: Review

Community, charity and Craigslist

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...

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Book review: And the Mountains Echoed

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,...

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Singing themselves sick

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...

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Book vs. movie: The Great Gatsby

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...

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Rebel for a cause

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:...

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Getting down close and personal

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...

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Recognize and recollect

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...

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A sober and drunk take on Never Say Neverland

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...

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Far from fleeting

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...

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Hail the Gaels

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...

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Life is Biutiful

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....

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