Category Archives: Features

Jayme Hagen

features editor

Hello sun! We’ve missed you. Summer is almost upon us after a brutally long winter and, once again, we are actually able to participate in activities outside. Continue reading →

Get active in community, build resume with volunteering

Lizzy Walters

writer

Congratulations students, just a few more weeks! Are you looking forward to a summer filled with drinking booze, beach days and homework-free nights? Continue reading →

Festival City has a variety of artistic opportunities to keep the creativity alive

Danika McDonald

arts editor

There’s more to developing your skills in the arts than simply sitting in your drafty basement stumbling through guitar tabs.

Practicing your craft alone does build technique, but during the summer when you’re itching for entertainment, it’s hard to sit at home and sketch. Continue reading →

Megan Sarrazin

news editor

Although the summer break allows students to escape from the education-related stress associated with exams, assignments and making the grade, many students long for meaningful experience. Continue reading →

Get active this summer by participating in and attending various sports events

Kevin Penny

writer

Spring has begun to melt away the cold winter, and with it, has brought a whole new season of sports to follow. Continue reading →

’Tis the season to get stoked for summer music festivals

Brad Hudson and Sean da Silva

writer

It’s that time of year again when kids bust out of class and are eager to hit the festival circuit.

Although we can’t offer any assistance on luring that hottie into your R.V. or how to avoid that nasty sunburn, Intercamp has you covered with a handy guide to what’s happening in and around Edmonton this festival season. Continue reading →

Dress Me Dearly’s Janis Galloway gushes on Western Canada Fashion Week

Pamela Di Pinto

writer

Janis Galloway laughs as she thinks back to a younger self who — when left to her own devices — would change her outfit at least five times a day, often sending her mother in a huff as she paraded around the house in her best clothing. Continue reading →

Shaamini Yogaretnam

writer

Spring is on the mind of every Edmontonian and what better way to acknowledge the season than to welcome some vibrancy into the city. Cue lights. Music. Western Canada Fashion Week (WCFW), go! Continue reading →

Jayme Hagen

features editor

Next week the Students’ Association of MacEwan and the MacEwan Office of Sustainability will be hosting an event called Common Ground. Though it is only taking place for three days, the goal is that the message being spread will last a lot longer than that. Continue reading →

Jenny Feniak

managing editor

Our general health has earned greater importance and attention in the last couple decades, but specific trends have definitely sprouted out of this movement. Continue reading →

Get your veg on: vegetarian, vegan options surround MacEwan

Nicole Nytchay

writer

Vegetarian and vegan lifestyles are becoming more common in today’s society. Continue reading →

Kevin Penny

writer

“I was, after the fashion of humanity, in love with my name, and, as young educated people commonly do, I wrote it everywhere.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1811

Graffiti has come a long way since the first bubble letters sprayed onto New York subway trains. Continue reading →

You may never see the train again, but benching captures it forever

Mathew J. White

writer

It’s called benching. Why? Because you’re sitting on the bench.

But actually, the term derives from the 1970s New York graffiti scene. Continue reading →

Since most of you won’t bother trying to learn what each candidates platform for their campaign is, you will inevitably end up voting for whoever has the prettiest poster. This is unfortunately the basis of democracy. Continue reading →

Jennifer Carbert

writer

The bright lights and crowds of people overwhelmed Grant MacEwan University student Eyobe Melketsadik as he stepped off the train in Nagoya, Japan and into the dream of a lifetime. Continue reading →

Real hearts weigh in on Valentines’ passed

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A text message exchange:

S: Do you know that we’ve never spent a Valentine’s Day together in four years? Yet I’m so in love with you that I call you 16 times in three hours to make sure you’re not dead. It’s kind of neat, don’t you think? Continue reading →

A body may cost $6,000 but conversation and smile are still priceless

Jayme Hagen

features editor

A perfect solution has arrived for those burnt out with the dating scene and those too worried about the potential STDs they could pick up from a local hooker. Good news comes in human size packages — sex toys have come a long way since the Fleshlight. Continue reading →

Keeping that New Year’s resolution is easier than you think

Tracey L. Anderson

writer

Most people have heard of the “freshman 15”, those extra pounds that creep up in your first year of university. When you begin your studies, it’s easy to gain a little weight — or a lot — and it doesn’t necessarily stop in freshman year. Continue reading →

Cultures around the globe have used alcohol for centuries

Megan Sarrazin

news editor

Ringing in the New Year brings hopes for the future and, for many of us, a (really) bad hangover the next day.

In our culture, and especially in university, alcohol is a necessary substance and is used primarily as a social lubricant, a stress reliever and a way to pass the time. Continue reading →

Lacey Paige

writer

We all know a fare chunk of the holiday season is devoted to the food and drink…but Christmas and New Year’s have — yet again — left us asking the age-old question: What to drink with what foods? Continue reading →

Tisha Raj

writer

You’re finally home for the holidays. As you watch the snowflakes descend elegantly, listen to Christmas music and smell gingerbread cookies baking in the kitchen, your mind wanders to the friends and family you’ll get to catch up with.

Family and friends ­­— isn’t this the part of the holidays you dread the most every single year? Continue reading →