Category: Arts & Culture
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Celebrity fad diets
New Year, new you … right? You’ve probably been mulling over potential resolutions since mid-Christmas dinner, when that darling food baby swelled in your stomach (feel free to blame Grandma). Your New…
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Black is back
Remember the good ol’ days when all you could do was turn around and someone would be talking about Rebecca Black and how horrible her song Friday was? Well, Rebecca remembers it…
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Welcome to the 21st century, Christmas carols
Every year, the same old Christmas carols infiltrate the airwaves and instead of letting us enjoy the holidays, they make us wish Christmas was over sooner. It’s time to crush the carol-bashing…
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A guide to the perfect gift
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” These are the wise words of Winston Churchill and, especially around the holiday season, they can…
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Where are they now? Life after American Idol
In the fast paced world of Hollywood, stars are chewed up and spat out on a weekly basis, unless you manage to twerk on a foam finger or dangle your infant from…
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The Canadian Spotlight: Flamingo Báy
Flamingo Báy is a trio based in Hamilton, consisting of Kris Gies on bass and vocals, Vince Rankin on drums and vocals and Dillon Henningson on guitar and vocals. The…
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What to put on your exam playlist
What kind of music should you listen to while studying? It is not an easy question to answer, mostly because it does not necessarily mean one type of music over another, but…
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Fall reading list
It is no secret that University requires a lot of reading. While so many of us are busy turning pages of textbooks, journal articles and newspapers, our personal reading list –…
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No sexy nurses
MTV debuted their latest show “Scrubbing In” following the party lifestyle of attractive twenty-something nurses in Los Angeles. October 24 marked the debut of the show and the nursing community hasn’t…
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The Canadian spotlight: Ambition Music Group
Ambition Music Group (AMG) is a group consisting of three Laurier Brantford students: Martin Pitt, Brandon Pakeman and Taj Johnson. The three are in school for various programs, including Leadership, Criminology…
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Classic Albums Live perform the Beatles’ Abbey Road
On October 30, Classic Albums Live performed their rendition of the Beatles’ popular album, Abbey Road. The show was held at Sanderson Centre and drew a larger than expected crowd of Beatles…
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To twerk, or not to twerk
To twerk, or not to twerk – that is the question. You’ve seen her limp tongue hanging from those crimson glossed lips and the image of her dry humping a foam finger…
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New hit on Lifetime: Witches of East End
Unfortunately for all the goblin-loving, ghost hunting, and potion brewing people in the world, Halloween only comes once a year. Before we have a chance to say “BOO”, our pretend witch’s brooms…
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Who will you see this Halloween?
Halloween is quickly approaching and people are on the search for the perfect Halloween costume. Who will you see trick or treating this Halloween? Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke After Miley Cyrus’s…
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Canadian spotlight: Brantford Symphony Orchestra
The Brantford Symphony Orchestra has intermittently been a part of Brantford’s music scene since 1919. After a few times disbanding, the Brantford Symphony Orchestra has been up and running strong since 1953.…
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Study break: YouTube edition
Around this time of year your brain probably feels like road kill, midterms have sucked the light from your eyes and the bounce from your step. We all make explicit promises to…
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Mental health movies
You wake up slowly in the morning, wincing at the light spilling through the blinds. Walking over to the mirror, you stare at the reflection and don’t quite recognize the person staring…
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Canadian spotlight: DJ Vekked
DJ Vekked is undoubtedly one of Canada’s most impressive DJs, holding the national DMC title three years in a row, and both the DMC World Supremacy title and the IDA World…
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Top 10 stress-less songs
Music can do the soul so much good. In light of our mental health issue, I decided to create a playlist. This playlist is your ultimate go-to when you’re feeling stressed, worried,…
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Detective William Murdoch returns to Brantford
On Monday, October 1st, the cast and crew of the well-known Canadian television series Murdoch Mysteries took over downtown Brantford in order to film some scenes for their on-going season. You may…
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Album review: Drake’s Nothing Was the Same
September 24th marked the highly anticipated release of Drake’s newest album Nothing Was the Same. A tasteful requiem to his music’s evolution, this album features sultry sounds that embody Drake’s self-reflective and…
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Fall Fashion Lookbook ’13
Fall fashion remains relatively similar each year, though the particular layer styles and “in colours” undeniably vary. This year,…
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Album Reviews: Matthew Good and Avicii
Matthew Good, Arrows of Desire 3/5 Canadian icon Matthew Good released his latest studio album Arrows of Desire on September 24th. The album has a familiar Matt Good sting to it–the one…
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What is Cinema?
The world premiere of Chuck Workman’s What is Cinema? debuted this past Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film was a riveting portraiture of the creation and maintenance of the…
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Canadian spotlight: Lights
From a modest MySpace page in 2005 to a Best New Artist Juno award in 2009, Lights has been a steady icon for electro-pop music in Canada since she debuted. The gifted musician has…
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Top 5 college/university movies
You are brand new to university, so what better way to learn about the life of a college student than by watching a ton of college movies, right? Wrong. College movies have…
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How music can help make friends
Cliques. They are the one thing that everyone fears and reveres more than anything when going to a new school. The only thing worse than being part of a clique is not…
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Canadian spotlight: Fast Romantics
Fast Romantics are a great new band who formed in 2008 and are originally from Calgary, but are now based in Toronto. They’ve had songs in many TV shows, including Shameless, Pretty…
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Canadian Spotlight: Sherman Downey and the Ambiguous Case
At this year’s very first CBC Music Fest, I got an opportunity to see Sherman Downey and the Ambiguous Case perform live. The performance was nothing short of breathtaking, and I immediately…
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How to organize your tiny bedroom
University, while it has its many perks – like living away from home – it also has some downsides, like unbearably tiny bedrooms. If you’re wondering how the heck you’re going to…
