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 Nicholas Kindrachuk November 11, 2011
Was Shakespeare a fraud? No, but Anonymous, the latest film from ridiculous director Roland Emmerich decided to explore the idea anyway.
After watching this film, it is puzzling to think about who exactly it was made for. The people who know the details of Shakespeare’s works are nothing but offended by the idea of this film, especially because the film’s marketing tried to sell this idea as true.
By Keegan Elliott November 11, 2011
Two months ago, if you had asked me about a show called Community, aired on NBC, about a group of seven people who randomly get together to form a study group at their local community college, I wouldn’t have known what you were talking about. Now, it is one of the funniest shows I have ever seen, and I would say it is just as funny as, perhaps even funnier than, other comedies like The Office and Arrested Development.
By Matt Cheetham November 10, 2011
Vern Thiessen’s Vimy is the first show of the season for the local non-profit theatre organization Live Five, telling the story of a nurse tending four wounded Canadian soldiers recovering at a field hospital during the First World War. It is directed by Natasha Martina and stars many current and former U of S drama students.
While the play is built around the themes, symbols and actions of the First World War, it is not a play explicitly about war.
By Emma Anderson November 9, 2011
Two graduates from the B.F.A. program, Vanya Hanson and Lindsay Klassen, both have something to say about the way we deal with the space around us, within us and even on us.
Shell, the show by Vanya Hanson takes space and turns it into a mystifying playground. As I walked into the Snelgrove Gallery I was drawn by noises of echoes, bubbles, resonance and small speech. This place is as provocative as it is ambient: warm peaches, purples, oranges and beiges surrounded with accents of blue and green light. It is both alien and of-the-body.
By Colin Gibbings November 5, 2011
There is not a shred of reason to believe anyone but William Shakespeare wrote the plays under his name. Yet because Shakespeare is considered the greatest writer in the English language, perhaps in the whole body of world literature, he is looked upon with suspicion and doubt. If Shakespeare’s contemporary Ben Johnson was hailed as the greatest, you can bet your life people would doubt his authorship instead.
By Aren Bergstrom November 5, 2011
In the near future, time is money in the most literal sense imaginable.
That’s the basic concept behind In Time, the latest science-fiction thriller from Andrew Niccol, the director of Gattaca and Lord of War. It’s a neat concept and well executed in the film, but unfortunately the concept seems to be the only innovation in the movie.
By Ishmael N. Daro November 3, 2011
The Stall Gallery’s current exhibit focuses on the building blocks of our world, from the inner workings of a pocketwatch to the architecture of our cities.
Henry van Seters and Bevin Bradley have vastly differing styles — realist vs. abstract — but their themes work well together. Their paintings are also bereft of human forms. Instead, we are left to ponder the social, architectural and mechanical underpinnings of our world.
By The Sheaf November 3, 2011
If you follow Internet memes closely, you might be familiar with such characters as Advice Dog, Courage Wolf and Socially Awkward Penguin. Each post is the same: the animal in the centre of a coloured background offering pithy comments about everyday life.
Since September, Saskatoon has had its very own meme character: Saskatoon Dog.