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 Ishmael N. Daro August 26, 2009
There are few people who would dare revise the history of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Luckily, Quentin Tarantino is not afraid to get his hands dirty.
The 46-year-old director of such films as Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction is at it again with his latest film Inglourious Basterds. Whereas his previous efforts have been homages to crime, martial arts and blaxploitation genres, war films are a sacred genre of film few have dared to mess with. Tarantino handles the genre with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer…
By The Sheaf July 21, 2009
Established in 2002, the Creative Commons licence system allows artists, both professional and amateur, to copyright their work with as many restrictions as they choose ”” including the ability to un-copyright works completely. According to their website, “Creative Commons provides free tools that lets authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.”
By The Sheaf July 21, 2009
Paul Kuzbik was about to call it quits on the music front after finding himself in a place where he was no longer happy with it. “I needed to break the mold and woodshed, and I almost quit performing. But then all these other things happened;” he explained of his near abandonment of music, and the subsequent year off that he spent redefining his sound.
By Greg Reese July 21, 2009
In these uncertain times there doesn’t seem to be much a person can count on.
Fortunately, one can still take solace in the fact that the Coen brothers’ comedic masterpiece The Big Lebowski refuses to go away. Unlike the economy, its cult status continues to grow with each new generation.
By Ashleigh Mattern June 26, 2009
Taylor Leedahl started Tonight It’s Poetry, a weekly showcase of local poetic talent, in April 2008. Little did she know that a year later, her locally-grown project would attract national attention.
On June 14, at the last Tonight It’s Poetry of the year, the first Saskatoon slam poetry team was decided. They will be heading to Victoria to compete in the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word from Nov. 10 to 14.
“What I’m really excited about is, when our team goes out there, what they’re going to bring back here,” said Leedahl, team manager. “And, you know, next year, there’s the chance for people to be on the 2010 team.”
Winner Megan Lane and runner-up Charles Hamilton were both surprised with their success at the competition June 14. Hamilton said he was nervous going in and Lane said she didn’t think she would make it to the second round. Jocelyn Doepker came in third, Nicole Almond came in fourth and Stephen Rutherford is the team’s alternate.
By Greg Reese June 25, 2009
Though initially a tour comprised of six bands, White Whale Records will be doing a truncated version of their five-year anniversary party here in Saskatoon on June 29. Two indie bands from Toronto,
Octoberman and Mohawk Lodge, will be joined by Edmonton rocker Eamon McGrath for a night of eclectic rock music.
Whether you’re a fan of Canadian indie music or not, this show should be pretty damn wicked ”” if for no other reason than the varied sounds of these three groups.
By Greg Reese June 24, 2009
Montreal metal gurus Derelict came ripping through town at the end of May, slaying an audience of intense metal-heads at Walker’s Nightclub with their exuberant but deadly brand of extreme music.
Though based in Montreal, Derelict have more than one Saskatoon connection. Impressively, they have managed to steal one of Saskatoon’s best psych-rock drummers, all the while getting their music released on the Saskatoon label Somnambulist Sound (run by Skot Hamilton of The New Jacobin Club and Adolyne).
By Ashleigh Mattern May 15, 2009
The large hadron collider is a giant scientific instrument straddling the Switzerland-France border. This fall, the machine will run its first full experiment, recreating energy levels unseen since the big bang.
No one knows for sure what will happen but Canadian science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer has a guess.