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 September 10, 2010

    There are many types of movies out there ”” epics and mysteries, actions and comedies. I’ve always appreciated those films that don’t try to be anything; they take a piece of life without trying to dress it up or justify it. The Kids Are All Right is one of such films which doesn’t rely on tidy resolutions or two-dimensional moralizing. It’s just about people.

  • Summer movie recap: the good, the bad and the average

    By September 9, 2010

    How does one define the summer movie season? In our polarized culture, people tend to label things as either The Best or The Worst. If you’ve read any online movie criticism over the past four months, you’ll surely know that this summer has been labeled one of the worst ever.

  • MASH is the best sitcom of all time, and still great after 40 years

    By September 9, 2010

    A few years ago, if someone had asked me what the best TV show of all time was, I’d have been hard pressed to come up with an answer. That was then. Now, I can answer, without a moment’s hesitation: MASH.

  • Serial bassist Enver Hampton chats about his main project Volcanoless in Canada

    By September 9, 2010

    Volcanoless in Canada is probably the most severe victim of Saskatoon’s serial bassist Enver Hampton, whose M.O. is to play in every band ever.

  • Biliana Velkova: The Musical

    By September 9, 2010

    Past the velvet curtain at the entrance to Biliana Velkova’s MFA thesis exhibition, Biliana Velkova: The Musical, is a giant sign in glowing marquee lights proclaiming her name. Like much of Velkova’s previous work, which focuses on mass media advertising and appropriation, the sign is bright, schmaltzy and fabulous.

  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • REVIEW: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

    By September 8, 2010

    Catch-22, Joseph Heller’s magnificently subversive rumination on the madness of war, the evils of bureaucracy and the ineluctable absurdity of the human condition, is my favourite novel. I have read it a dozen times over, and it comes easily to hand whenever I find myself slouching about, opening books at random.

  • Pixar artists offer class in Vancouver

    By September 8, 2010

    Students in Vancouver will have the opportunity to learn from animation’s best this fall, as Pixar is set to host a weekend seminar in the city.

  • Saskatoon’s local hip-hop heroes Sly Business to play Louis’ House Party

    By September 8, 2010

    Being a seven-piece funk, ska, jazz, instrumental hip-hop group will definitely turn a few heads on the indie paradise that is Saskatoon’s music scene ”” and that’s exactly what local band Sly Business has sought out to do since the band’s inception in fall of 2009.