Like so many times before, senior centre Katia Clement-Heydra stepped up when her team needed it the most. She tallied two goals and added an assist on rookie forward Jordan McDonnell’s game-winning goal, as the McGill Martlets squeaked by the Concordia Stingers 3-2 on Friday night. In what has been[Read More…]
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Sam Roberts Band–Lo-Fantasy
Having released a relatively successful string of EPs and full-length studio efforts, Quebec-based rocker Sam Roberts recently dropped Lo-Fantasy, his fifth album overall, and second since adopting the moniker Sam Roberts Band in 2011. With catchy hooks, brilliant guitar riffs, and sing-along choruses, this album doesn’t stray far from his[Read More…]
B’s Bees cordially invites you to Sunday Night Jazz Party
With a dulled night scene in downtown Montreal on Sundays, students are usually directed towards a slow dreary evening, wishing that the exhilaration of their weekend could continue. Luckily, Brandon Goodwin, the drummer of Montreal’s very own six-piece jazz band, B’s Bees, brings us the opportunity to abandon our homework—or[Read More…]
Indigenous studies minor approved for Fall 2014
Students will be able to enroll in a new Indigenous Studies minor in the Faculty of Arts starting in Fall 2014, following the program’s approval by Senate last Wednesday. The program, which has been the goal of ongoing initiatives by students and faculty for approximately 10 years, will be administered[Read More…]
Montréal en Lumière lights up the world like no city else
Cop lights, flash lights, spot lights, strobe lights, street lights: as if straight out of a Kanye West song, all save for one of these lights illuminated my experience at Montréal en Lumière. The annual winter festival converts the city’s Quartier des Spectacles into a free urban playground featuring a[Read More…]
Back to basics: Intimacies of the MontréaLive approach
When watching the perfectly engineered music videos of our generation, I can’t help but feel a sense of detachment from the actual music. To me, music represents an inherent connection to the raw emotion of the musician(s) who create it. MontréaLive serves to bridge the gap that plagues viewers like[Read More…]
Spoiler alert: Breaking down House of Cards Season 2
Given the straightforward in-season narrative structure that House of Cards introduced in its first installment, the question for Season 2 wasn’t What are they going to do?, but rather, How are they going to do it? We knew that Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) would almost certainly be making the jump[Read More…]
Potential SSMU mental health policy will fund coordinator, create student resource website
A new mental health website and hiring a Mental Health Coordinator are top priorities for the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU), according to a new mental health policy to be approved at the Feb. 20 SSMU Council. Other goals of the policy are to be implemented in the next[Read More…]
Savoy Society turns 50
Fifty years ago this month, the Savoy Society was born as it graced the stage at McGill with its debut performance: Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. Today’s Savoy Society is honouring its golden anniversary by presenting the same whimsical, timeless operetta with which it first premiered so many years ago.[Read More…]
AUS to launch laptop lending program in March
The Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) will unveil a new laptop lending program this March. The new initiative comes in response to the termination of a similar program run by the university in the beginning of the academic year due to budget cuts. “Given that some funds had accumulated since Winter[Read More…]