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Music To Eat Lunch To – AFI – Decemberunderground

Label: Interscope Records Tracks: 12 Rating: 6 I haven’t listened to an AFI album since The Art of Drowning, released in 2000. Having missed their 2003 release, Sing the Sorrow, I was unaware that the band had evolved somewhat and created not one, but several variations of their original sound. While I could stretch myself… Read more »

Course Exam – Research and Writing Projects in Literature (ENGL 492)

Calling all English majors! Athabasca University’s Centre for Language and Literature has recently launched a new senior-level English course featuring advanced English literature research. The course, titled Research and Writing Projects in Literature (ENGL 492), provides students with the opportunity to “work on an individual research project in literature,” states course author and professor Dr…. Read more »

The Good Life – We Are All Artists

As part of attaining a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia, my husband is enrolled in a course to learn how to teach secondary students to develop their written composition skills. Reasonably enough, the instructor’s basic premise is that teachers of composition must genuinely enjoy writing themselves, if they are to… Read more »

Lost & Found – Feathers

My buddy tells a story about the day he saw the towers falling to the ground, the day he knew he would never have kids of his own. Here is how I picture it. He’s in between jobs on the rigs and staying with his sister in her Edmonton apartment. It’s early in the morning,… Read more »

Life in Germany: Part 9

In our flat in Berlin, Angeles is trying on various blouses, sweaters, and jackets. With each combination, she asks me, “Do I look pregnant in this?” “Danger! Danger!” I tell myself. This is one of those questions that has no right answer. A little white lie would be pointless, as Angeles is eight months pregnant…. Read more »

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Eagle Women’s Art Raffle

The following artworks are being raffled for the Eagle Women’s Emergency Shelter. AU student Kim Anderson and her team competed in this year’s Candian Deathrace to raise funds for the shelter, and this artwork was donated for their cause. Tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5. Only 3000 tickets are being sold. Draw date… Read more »

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