THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

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  • By October 14, 2011

    Super Street Fighter II Turbo, in all its superlative glory, was released for Super Nintendo in 1994. I never personally owned a copy, nor did I ever follow the series into its later incarnations. Yet that game made an indelible impression on me during long nights of my childhood I spent in my cozy basement.

    I don’t want to negatively characterize online gamers, nor do I want to take online gaming away from anyone. It just troubles me that the authentic multiplayer experience, between friends in close quarters, is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Whenever I hear about the latest online multiplayer sensation, I can’t help but think back to my evenings with Street Fighter II and feel that something has been lost between then and now.

  • The rise of The Walking Dead: recapping the first season of AMC’s zombie epic

    By October 13, 2011

    To my surprise, most people I talk to haven’t heard of The Walking Dead. Even worse, when I explain that it’s a post-apocalyptic zombie show, most people get turned off and are not interested in anything else I have to say.

    The Walking Dead is about so much more than just zombies. It is a show about a family, nearly torn apart by unforeseen events and forced to protect themselves against the (in)human monsters of the night after civilization has collapsed.

  • Season Four seals it: Breaking Bad is one of the best TV shows ever made

    By October 12, 2011

    When a television show has you literally shaking from the tension, you know you’re watching something good. Breaking Bad has caused the shakes more than any show in recent memory.

    The show, which started out as a simple drama about a cancer-stricken high school chemistry teacher who turns to cooking meth to pay the bills, has evolved into so much more than an exploration of a good man gone bad. This past season of Breaking Bad, the fourth, with its slow boil storytelling, constant threat of death for the main characters and uncanny ability to pull all disparate narrative threads together into one overwhelming situation of helplessness has demonstrated that the show may just be the quintessential exploration of pride, moral degradation and crime on television.

  • Beavis and Butt-head return to TV

    By October 8, 2011

    Almost 14 years after going off the air, Beavis and Butt-head is returning to television, airing new episodes starting Oct. 27.

  • Girls are all over your fall TV schedule

    By October 7, 2011

    This season’s fall comedy line-up is heavy on female talent.

    For fans of (500) Days of Summer, like myself, Zooey Deschanel’s character Jess in New Girl isn’t unlike every other character she has ever played. On the other hand, with a mix of sardonic wit, attitude and pointed social commentary, Kat Dennings in 2 Broke Girls makes the audience laugh and sympathize with her.

  • Hysterical is a partial return to former glory

    By October 7, 2011

    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ask a lot of their listeners. If the band wants the sort of reaction their name demands, the onus is on them to give the audience a reason to break out and shout. And of their past two releases, only one has yielded such a result.

    After a four-year hiatus, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have returned with a new release, Hysterical.

  • Born to grow and grown to die: discovering Townes Van Zandt

    By October 6, 2011

    Townes Van Zandt is the epitome of a cult musician. He spent most his life playing at dive bars and his record sales were dismal throughout his career. Yet the fans he does have — like the exalted Bob Dylan — are obsessed with his music. When a tiny ad was taken out in Rolling Stone for “The Official Townes Van Zandt Fan Club,” hundreds of people wrote back, quoting his songs, saying the music changed their lives and gave them hope.

    I feel the same way.

  • Love, longing and desire with The Three Sisters

    By October 6, 2011

    Russia comes to Saskatoon as the dedicated drama students at Greystone Theatre prepare to kick off the season with Anton Chekhov’s classic play The Three Sisters.

    The play, written in 1900, centres on the Prozorov family, landed gentry living in rural Russia. The titular sisters are the motherly spinster Olga, the unhappily married Masha and the young and idealistic Irina, who live alongside their brother Andrei and his fiancée Natasha.

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