Sled Island 2010: Sledding on Canada Day
By Kelsey Hipkin While Canada was celebrating it’s 143 birthday yesterday I was checking out the sights and sounds of my very first Sled Island Festival. I’d heard about Sled and knew it was...
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Noise 101: CD Reviews for March 18 Reflector
by Sean-Paul Boynton Choice Cut It’s very easy to complain about how bands never come to Canada. When an artist announces a “North American tour,” it’s usually a full tour of the United States...
That synch-ing feeling
by Catherine Szabo For 60 to 90 seconds at a time, Aquabelles such as Kristine Irwin have a unique view of the world. It’s blue, upside-down, and, save for the constant metallic ticking sound,...
Cougars, Calamities and Classics:
Cougars- The Cougars season is winding down to the Christmas break and all our teams are looking pretty darn good. Did you know… The Cougars women’s volleyball team has beaten their rivals, SAIT...
Cougars, Calamities and Classics: Men’s team shreds Griffins & how much for the good doctor?
Cougars – Hey there sports fans! In case you haven’t noticed the Cougars men’s hockey team is hotter than hot of late. Their latest win a 5-3 routing of the Grant MacEwan Griffins coming...
Noise 101: CD Reviews for Nov 5 Reflector
Choice Cut Tegan and Sara Sainthood Sire It has been exactly one year and three months since Tegan and Sara released The Con, and in the time between then and the recent debut of...
Musical Musings: A selfish introduction, and Muslim punk
Greetings, casual reader, and welcome to Musical Musings, the new blog for me, the arts editor of the Reflector. I say “for me” because, well…let me start from the beginning. I’m a huge music...
Back by popular demand
With the words “wow” and “flutter” in the title of Decidedly Jazz Danceworks’ 2008 show, people can be forgiven if they don’t immediately think of turntables or variations of speed, sound and frequency distortion....
Virgin Fest: Dance/rap duo brings the thunder
Grahm Zilla believes a good way to gauge his latest project, Thunderheist, is to look at the hierarchy on festival flyers. “You can always tell how big you are by your font size,” says...
Folk Fest: Kid Koala keeps his paws busy
Building a robot, writing a graphic novel, manning the turntables and pushing a baby in a stroller. It may not be the life that most DJs lead, but it’s the one that the DJ...
