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.
By Blair Woynarski 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.
By Laura Alford October 5, 2011
Saskatoon art lovers have plenty to see in two new exhibitions that opened this past week. Wing Yee Tong’s show Homework is showing at the Snelgrove, and Vancouver-based artist Jayce Salloum’s history of the present is at the Mendel.
Obvious headlines aside, both exhibitions present the artist as archivist, collector and hoarder of the objects, images, conversations and even recipes that are the material residue of lived experience. In both exhibits, the gallery space and the artist’s treatment transform our relationship to these objects.
By Nicole Barrington October 5, 2011
Red State, Kevin Smith’s first venture into the horror genre, is not your standard jump-inducing scary film. The 88-minute long endeavour follows a religious group, the Five Points Church, who are explicitly compared in the movie to the Westboro Baptist Church.
Like the real-life fundamentalist church, the Five Points Church protests public events such as the funerals of homosexuals with offensive signs and are all related by “blood and marriage.”
By Canadian University Press October 4, 2011
After a five-year hiatus since the release of the highly criticized double album Stadium Arcadium, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have a lot to prove with their latest release, I’m With You.
With over 60 minutes of music, the Chili Peppers’ tenth studio album, produced by Rick Rubin, has Anthony Kiedis claiming they are a “new band.” But fear not diehard fans, I’m With You is stamped with the RHCP’s signature sound. Just don’t count on them getting the socks back out.
By Nicholas Kindrachuk October 4, 2011
Atlanta-based psychedelic metal heads Mastodon continue to step out of their comfort zone on their fifth album The Hunter.
The Hunter has some truly great moments; it’s too bad they’re shrouded by some mediocre attempts by the band to step outside their comfort zone into more accessible areas. I respect what Mastodon tried to do with this album and when it works it works extremely well, but all too often The Hunter tends to shoot itself in the foot.
By Aren Bergstrom October 4, 2011
Moneyball is a sports movie that’s as much about talk as it is about playing sports. It’s about the men who run the game of baseball off the field and how logic and statistics trump intuition and talent. It’s an underdog story, but not of the kind you’ve seen before.
Based on Michael Lewis’s 2003 non-fiction book, Moneyball tells the story of how Oakland Athletics’ general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) changed the game of baseball during the 2002 season.
By The Sheaf October 4, 2011
Gears of War 3 is the best of the series and one of the best games on the Xbox 360. Epic Games have crafted the pinnacle of intense gameplay with tight controls and large set pieces,while giving everything in the gameworld considerable weight. The graphical engine Epic implemented does some amazing things before your eyes. So amazing, in fact, that you might just stop moving after a firefight and look around at the shadows to take all the details in.
By Holly Culp October 3, 2011
From the ashes of last year’s Louis’ Talk Show rises a new Monday night feature: Game Show.
While Game Show is essentially indistinguishable from Talk Show — the same host, the same ’80s music and the same kitschy prizes — it focuses more on the audience participation factor that was always the best part of Talk Show. It does away with the monologue, the wet blanket co-host Paul McMurtry and the occasional dud of a guest.