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What may look like a kitten, roars like a lion

The atmosphere was electric last Thursday when the theatre Les Porteuses d’Aromates opened its doors for the premiere of En vie de femmes by Marcelle Dubois. The auditors were speaking loudly, sharing their excitement to be there as they sat down in front of the stage. However, as soon as the seven actresses made their […]

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Get ready for rock action

Mogwai have a new album out. Rock Action is the long awaited follow-up to Come on Die Young, one of 1999’s best albums. Stephen Malkmus (of Pavement fame) once said, that Mogwai were “the band of the 21st Century”. I spoke to Stuart Braithwaite, Mogwai’s guitarist, about Rock Action, Post Rock, culture, and the atrocity […]

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Sabrina Stea

Concordia has not seen a female presidential candidate for CSU elections in several years. This year, the university finally has one running, and she is making herself known all around campus. Sabrina Stea is in her fourth year at Concordia studying Drama for Human Development and is acting president for the Fine Arts Student Alliance. […]

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Why men like football

Sitting in a living room that contained enough machismo to make a caterpillar blush and pre-empt metamorphosis, superbowl Sunday helped remind me of the all important fact that every once in a while the beast that is man needs an excuse to romp and roar. The game itself was an insignificant excuse for gathering that […]

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Real, wild adventures in Alaska

“I’d never said to myself the words ‘I’m going to die’ and believed it until I moved to Alaska. Then I did it repeatedly.” The words of 27-year-old Brian Crane sound ominous as he sits casually in a Concordia University student lounge preparing to tell what he affectionately refers to as “The Bear Story.” It’s […]

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