Blancheneige Bazaar Orchestra Albums: Blancheneige (debut album, 2005), Royale Aero d?Inde (2008). Musicians: Bernard Benony, Pierre Cassat, Karim Humbert,Guy Khalepski, Ophir Levy, Nicolas Portnoï Snow White and the Five Multi-ethnic Musical Giants ?To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these… Read more »
Beach read. Trashy novel. Call it what you will, genre fiction has always been considered second-rate next to its literary cousins. But if the value of a story lies in its ability to touch people, to help them make sense of their world, should style really trump substance? At extreme ends of the spectrum, literary… Read more »
Allow me to retell a story told to us this afternoon by a salesman named Allan. A quick and dirty analysis reveals a story arc, tension, interesting characters, humour, climax, and resolution. But how much of a story’s appeal comes from the teller and the telling? Impending death was the catalyst for the remembering and… Read more »
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On Monday, according to our handy-dandy La Crosse electronic home weather station, the temperature was five degrees Celsius with the wind chill. FIVE degrees on August 23. It was a cloudy, miserable day. In the Big Sky Country of Alberta, where we’re used to sparkly blue, often cloudless skies, dark, dreary days are especially hard… Read more »
?I think that if a person doesn’t feel cynical then they’re out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization; you can’t just swallow it whole.? Frank Zappa ?The Ultimate Rule ought to be: ?If it sounds GOOD to you, it’s bitchin?; if it sounds BAD… Read more »
Convocation 2010 AUSU wishes to congratulate this year’s graduates, whether attending Convocation in person or by distance. We wish you the best of luck in your future pursuits. You are an inspiration to all AU students! AUSU Executive Election AUSU has recently held its internal election for the Executive. We wish to congratulate Barbara Rielly… Read more »
Mention product placement and most book lovers start muttering like Shakespeare’s witches, mumbling ominously about the pricking of their thumbs. Rapid changes in technology have only heightened fears about those sly commercial cameos slipping into the plot. After all, how much simpler could it be than to tweak new versions of an e-book and put… Read more »
Convocation 2010 AUSU wishes to congratulate this year’s graduates, whether attending Convocation in person or by distance. We wish you the best of luck in your future pursuits. You are an inspiration to all AU students! AUSU Executive Election AUSU has recently held its internal election for the Executive. We wish to congratulate Barbara Rielly… Read more »
There’s a popular little reality show called So You Think You Can Dance. I have to confess I’ve never seen it, but the title sticks in my mind because I always, in a dark, autonomic recess of my brain, convert it to something else: So You Think You Can Write. Because writing’s easy, isn’t it?… Read more »