This Thursday night, the McGill Martlets will take on their local rivals, the Concordia Stingers, in their first ever fundraiser game for the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation. The “Shoot for the Cure” event aims to raise between $1,500 and $2,500 for the cause. The game is part of a larger[Read More…]
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Redmen send Bengals back home with tails between legs
Alice Walker McGill’s Olivier Bouchard curls off a screen, sets his feet for an instant, rises up, and, with a flick of his wrist, sends the ball sailing through the cylinder. That’s the image seared in defenders’ minds after Sunday’s game against the University of Maine at Fort Kent Bengals,[Read More…]
Incongruous feline nolo contendre gratuitous
This is some dummy copy. You’re not really supposed to read this dummy copy, it is just a place holder for people who need some type to visualize what the actual copy might look like if it were real content. If you want to read, I might suggest a good[Read More…]
Chiddy Bang: The Preview
Chiddy Bang has been on the scene since February 2009, but they didn’t release their first single, “Opposite of Adults”—sampling MGMGMT‘s “Kids”—until a year later. Over that time Chiddy Bang has generated a lot of hype, becoming a widely played university favourite and lauded as everything from “a hipster’s wet[Read More…]
Between a rock and a hard place
digitaltrends.com Two years after the release of director Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire comes 127 Hours, a film based on the terrifying true story of adventure seeker Aron Ralston (James Franco). Ralston inadvertently has his right arm pinned between a boulder and a cavern wall during an afternoon hike in the[Read More…]
Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Before the release of his latest album, few doubted Kanye West’s ability to one-up himself given his talent, money, and endless supply of industry connections. So it should come as no surprise that My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is just as spectacularly excessive as we could have hoped. There[Read More…]
Mary Halvorson Quintet: Saturn Sings
This is tense, spooky music with a delightfully playful side. In Saturn Sings, her second album on the Firehouse 12 label, Mary Halvorson adds alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon and trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson to her already formidable trio with drummer Ches Smith and bassist John Hébert. Without Halvorson, that combination[Read More…]
Zooming in on the magic of the everyday
(3.bp.blogspot.com) In his current exhibit at the McCord Museum, Hungarian-born photographer Gabor Szilasi documents “The Eloquence of the Everyday” over 30 years and two continents. Through both black and white and colour images, Szilasi focuses on a variety of features that make up the everyday: urban and rural architecture, private[Read More…]
Martlets Soccer – B+
John Kelsey Last year, a very young Martlets soccer team, which had only one fourth-year player, made it to the QUSL semifinals. This year, the team’s goal was to go to nationals. They started out on the right path with nine wins and five ties, dominating the other teams in[Read More…]
Redmen Soccer – B-
Holly Stewart After their second-place finish at the National Championships last year, the McGill Redmen soccer team entered this season with high expectations. The Redmen felt the pressure to succeed from the start, which took its toll as the team performed inconsistently all year. McGill concluded their 2010 campaign with[Read More…]