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.

Culture

  • By April 6, 2011

    Sucker Punch is the latest offering from Zack Snyder, the divisive director of such stylish comic book adaptations as 300 and Watchmen. The plot that one might discern from the previews is “hot chicks with guns,” but it is actually a bit more complex than that.

  • Year of the underdog: An interview with Shad

    By April 6, 2011

    Though Shad may have a vibrant, larger-than-life stage presence, the London, Ont.-based rapper reps an off-stage demeanour that’s entirely humble.

  • Ray Black brings glitch-hop to Saskatoon

    By April 6, 2011

    Ray Black, a hip-hop artist and DJ from Vancouver, B.C., is cultivating a new sub-genre known as glitch-hop and he’s bringing his latest interpretation of rap to town.

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  • Grand Analog’s Ofield Williams brings his new side-project to Amigos

    By April 6, 2011

    Despite how mainstream dubstep has become, not too many live dubstep bands visit Saskatoon ”” until now. Grand Analog’s new side-project, Blast Action Hero, arrives at Amigos on April 29.

  • A broken USSU Film Fest

    By April 6, 2011

    While their “Film Fest” is certainly an event that resembles a festival where films are shown, the USSU Film Fest has so many problems with it that it actually discourages serious independent filmmakers from participating. Here are some of the most obvious and detrimental issues plaguing the yearly event.

  • LCD Soundsystem go out on top at sold-out farewell gig

    By April 5, 2011

    James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem has made it clear for the past year that his band was almost done. Even before they put out 2010’s This is Happening, he declared the band would tour the world once more and that’s it.

  • Jay-Z explains his lyrics in ‘Decoded’

    By April 1, 2011

    Rare is the person who hasn’t, by now, at least heard of Jay-Z, let alone downloaded a song or two to bump from their speaker system of choice, be it auto or iPod, when in need of a good aural pick-me-up.

  • Mixing homosexuality with Christianity

    By April 1, 2011

    After spending some time with the chaplaincy department at Memorial, Reverend Robert Cooke is now an associate priest with St. Mark’s Anglican Church in St. John’s, where he leads a congregation with openly gay members.