Month: February 2012

116 posts

Photography is not just black or white

Artist and professor Deborah Willis lectured on her book Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present last Friday, inviting students to take a closer look at the work of black photographers over the past two centuries.
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See ya later Gaiters

Riddled by injuries in the past weeks, the Stingers went from a team drawing attention nationally to a…

ASFA president accused of ‘bullying’

Arts and Science Federation of Associations President Alex Gordon’s explanation on his involvement in the impeachment petition of Concordia Student Union President Lex Gill was met with mixed reactions from the ASFA council last Thursday.
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Stingers drop eleventh in a row

Crossing a black cat? Walking under a ladder? Breaking a mirror? Who knows what the Stingers women’s hockey team did, but the bad luck continued for the team, which lost its eleventh straight game last Sunday.
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‘The Internet is under attack’: protesters

Approximately fifty people gathered in Norman Bethune Square on De Maisonneuve Boulevard last Friday to protest anti-piracy legislation currently making its way through the House of Commons.
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We can watch dance if we want to

It seems like the only time people want to see dancing is in the movies, whether it’s Patrick Swayze making knees sway in Dirty Dancing, or one of those many films where kids Step Up to the dance floor against the background of thinly-veiled class issues.

Dial H for Hitchcock

There are directors, and then there are auteur directors—those whose creative voices resonate throughout all their work. Among…
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Quickspins + Retroview

Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains – E Volo Love (Domino; 2012) The charming complexity of this album is…
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Le Huffington Post: hit or miss?

Media mogul Arianna Huffington added the province of Quebec to her online empire last Wednesday, and the 10 bloggers who defected from her ranks shortly before the launch of Huffington Post Quebec did not make her budge.