If Shakespeare didn’t write any of his plays, who did? That’s the scenario of Roland Emmerich’s newest film, Anonymous. The film pits Shakespeare the person against Shakespeare the bard, but barely scratches the surface of the complex history of Shakespeare and his works. Based on the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare[Read More…]
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To walk or to wait
Jaywalking is a practice that is only nominally illegal in most North American cities. However, Montreal seems to be taking a different approach. The Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) has begun its annual pedestrian safety campaign. Like most measures by government to raise “awareness” of a[Read More…]
Steven Bielby, Redmen Swimmer and Olympic hopeful
The Tribune sat down with star McGill swimmer and London Olympic hopeful Steven Bielby in order to find out what the life of an elite university swimmer consists of. What’s the day-to-day training of a swimmer like? As a swimmer you just fall into a routine. We have training on[Read More…]
Coldplay: Mylo Xyloto
Coldplay have been around for over a decade now, and while immensely popular, they haven’t gone without criticism, often getting labelled as unoriginal and uninspired, both in their music and lyrics. Even so, they continue to produce music that their fans love. The band introduced a more upbeat, poppy sound[Read More…]
Difficult to explain, easy to like
Sometimes authors face a chasm between the critical and the consensus. Last year Johanna Skibsrud won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her debut novel, The Sentimentalists. Critics praised the book for its poetic language and complex themes, though many readers disagreed. Some found the work overwritten, and the storytelling murky,[Read More…]
Carabins spoil Martlets’ regular season opener
Sam Reynolds The Martlets came back down to earth this past Friday night. Two weeks removed from a bronze medal finish at the Martlet Invitational where they ended Montreal’s 23-game winning streak, McGill suffered a crushing 3-0 (25-19, 25-22, 25-15) defeat against the Carabins in their regular season opener. Head[Read More…]
The men who knew too much
alliancefilmsmedia.com alliancefilmsmedia.com Surviving Progress, as the name suggests, is a film that questions our understanding of progress by pushing viewers to see progress as a movement that threatens humanity, rather than as positive advancement. The documentary, based on Ronald Wright’s best selling non fiction book A Short History of Progress,[Read More…]
Shake and half-baked conspiracy theories
mcgill.ca Shakespeare has joined the ranks of Godzilla, alien invaders, and apocalyptic Mayan predictions, with the release of Roland Emmerich’s latest film, Anonymous, in which we, the English-speaking world, are the unknowing victims of a political and literary conspiracy of titanic proportions. A conspiracy involving Queen Elizabeth herself and the[Read More…]
One senator’s request causes a polarized debate
haigoarts.blogspot.com wallpaperslibrary.com The beaver is thirty-six years into its tenure as Canada’s national emblem, and last week it faced its biggest challenge yet. As Senator Nicole Eaton said in a statement to the Canadian Senate, the beaver is both an outdated symbol and a destructive rodent. She believes we must[Read More…]
A foodie’s paradise found across the world in Singapore
Just two degrees north of the equator is a small island in South East Asia that is home to more than five million people and an infamous law forbidding chewing gum—Singapore is an unheralded paradise for foodies. I have traveled quite a lot in my life I’ve had some of[Read More…]