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 October 6, 2010

    When Saskatoon band We Were Lovers lost three of its members last year it lost some of its raw rock energy and it appeared that the project would call it quits. What resulted, however, was one of the most unique and versatile sounds Saskatoon has heard in recent memory.

  • Impromptu dance party travels across Canada

    By October 5, 2010

    Tom Kuzma and Gary Lachance have been travelling around the world for the past five years, staging unsolicited dance parties everywhere they go. Kuzma and Lachance are currently making their way across Canada, boombox at the ready, and recently stopped in Saskatoon.

  • REVIEW: Money by Martin Amis

    By October 5, 2010

    Ulysses, a colleague of mine once deftly observed, “is the novel of the 20th century.” I responded, “Ulysses may indeed be the novel of the 20th century, but Martin Amis’s Money is the best novel about the 20th century.”

  • Greystone play Black Comedy has a lot of fun in the dark

    By October 5, 2010

    If you’re sitting in the audience at the Greystone Theatre when Black Comedy opens, you might suspect a power outage. The first scene of the play does, indeed, take place in pitch black, but it’s intentional.

  • Christopher Hitchens releases memoir and learns he has cancer

    By September 30, 2010

    This past June, on the day journalist Christopher Hitchens received the news that his latest book Hitch-22: A Memoir hit No. 7 on the New York Times bestsellers list, he also learned he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer.

  • Requiem of Existence is brutal, in a really good way

    By September 30, 2010

    By combining the technical ferocity of death metal with the gloomy undertones of melodic metal, local quintet Requiem of Existence (formerly known as Uninvited Burial) have raised the bar for home-grown metal acts.

  • ALBUM REVIEW: Business Casual by Chromeo

    By September 30, 2010

    The Montreal electrofunk duo who you’ve (hopefully) heard so much about in the past few months has released their third full-length album, Business Casual, and the subject matter is exclusively concerned with various dealings with women.

  • REVIEW: Fear and Loathing on the campaign trail ’72 by Hunter S. Thompson

    By September 30, 2010

    Ostensibly a collection of loosely journalistic articles covering the 1972 American presidential campaign, Thompson’s masterpiece contains much more than straightforward political reportage. It is a deeply personal memoir of one man’s attempt to comprehend the rapidly changing nature of American politics.