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 March 31, 2010

    Lindsay Royale’s graduating BFA exhibition grew out of a new understanding of her Saskatoon community after she embarked on a study abroad program to England last winter. Upon her return, Royale rekindled an artistic interest in the private and public lives of Saskatonians.

  • Serial comic reborn through Drawn & Quarterly collection

    By March 31, 2010

    From growing up, you may not remember seeing Nipper, the adorable tyke who terrorized both neighbours and family in the funny pages alongside Charlie Brown or Dennis the Menace, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a classic.

  • Fisticuffs: one busy dude

    By March 31, 2010

    Jordan Kurtz, a.k.a. Fisticuffs, is the former drummer of We Were Lovers, the pianist and vocalist of Saskatoon piano pop-quartet Tuxedo Mask and, occasionally, drummer for his brother Scott Kurtz in Boycott Scott.

  • Rock ‘n’ roll revivalists

    By March 24, 2010

    In the music world today, new genres and novelties have left some listeners disillusioned. One wonders, “Where is our generation taking music?” It is this that makes Saskatoon’s rock-powerpop group Ride ‘Til Dawn so refreshing to hear and to see live.

  • ‘Frozen’ delivers chills and groans

    By March 24, 2010

    The film opens with three friends at a ski hill trying to figure out a way to get on the hill without purchasing lift tickets. The characters are Joe, his best friend Dan and Dan’s girlfriend Parker. They succeed by paying off the guy operating the lift and spend the day having a good time in the snow. Upbeat music plays over a montage of snowy frolicking. As the day starts to come to a close, however, Joe starts itching for “one last run.”

  • Peer Gynt enters the 21st century

    By March 24, 2010

    The Greystone Theatre season comes to an end with a classic work of epic fantasy penned by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The question for theatre-goers is, can the average university student connect to a play that was written in Norway in 1867 by a guy with epic facial hair?

  • Memories explored at the Snelgrove

    By March 24, 2010

    This week, the Snelgrove Gallery hosts three graduating exhibitions which take up themes of stillness, memory and memorial.

  • RIP Alex Chilton

    By March 24, 2010

    Alex Chilton is gone. He died in a New Orleans hospital of what doctors called a heart attack. Fans, of course, know better: Chilton died of a broken heart ”” too many powerfully sad songs.