cufftheduke.ca Sometimes it pays to have good friends. Or, if you’re Toronto’s Cuff the Duke, good friends who are also Canadian rock legends. Last year, Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor approached the band and invited them to record some songs with him. “He came to us and said, ‘Let’s just record[Read More…]
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The Real World goes to New York
“How do you like the real world?” From what I can tell, almost everyone over the age of 30 asks recent college graduates this question. I personally hope to never impose those seven words on anyone. But since you are wondering, the real world is just fine, thanks for asking.[Read More…]
A Woman’s Right to Sex
Much to the chagrin of prudes, puritans, and everyone in between, the “Fuck List” of a recent Duke graduate was recently leaked on the Internet. The list, dubbed a “senior thesis” by creator Karen Owen (or as I shall soon need to call her, Hester Prynne), contained an in-depth analysis[Read More…]
The greatest inventions of all time
freepatentsonline.com Sliced bread is awesome. But, if it’s truly one of the greatest inventions of all time, why do people still own bread knives? Here are some other suggestions for the top innovative inventions of all time. While these inventors may not have won Nobel Prizes, they certainly deserve some[Read More…]
Between the Lines
Credits: Theo Meyer, Meg Cramer, Ellie Marshall, with thanks to the Tribune editorial board Duration: 5:00 Posted: 10.8.10 This week’s episode of Between the Lines, we hit the streets to take in the sounds and sights of Pop Montreal and find out what students think about the food services boycott.
The Hidden Difficulties of an 8:30 Class
There seems to have occurred in the past week a strange increase in the percentage of my daily conversations revolving around the subject of where on campus is the best place to make poop. Off the top of my head, I can think of at least four conversations of that[Read More…]
Within Which All Things Move
Chloe Roubert Google Street View cars, mounted with nine cameras, roam the earth recording whatever happens to appear before them, from tumbleweeds floating across deserted highways to Justin Bieber’s grandparents in the front yard of the pop star’s Ontario home (earning Street View the apt nickname “Googlerazzi”). The Google cameras[Read More…]
Look at What the Light Did Now
blogs.sltrib.com Listening to the sounds of indie darling Feist is always a treat, but Look at What the Light Did Now, a documentary portraying the artist’s journey as she recorded her Grammy-nominated album The Reminder, turned the audible into a visual treat as well. This year, Pop gave Montrealers the[Read More…]
Katie Moore
borealisrecords.com Katie Moore is a Montreal-based songstress who needs nothing more than a guitar and her hauntingly beautiful voice to entrance an audience. And at Le Cagibi on Friday night, that’s exactly what she did. As she performed some tunes from her 2007 solo album Only Thing Worse, including “It’s[Read More…]
At Green Drinks, Mehdi discusses climate change’s effects
Jessica Batalitzky Last Tuesday night, another Green Drinks Montreal Chapter event took place at Thomson House. Bano Mehdi, a PhD candidate in the department of geography, presented a talk titled “Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture in Canada.” Mehdi addressed the small but attentive crowd and attempted to dispell the common[Read More…]