Customarily reserved for bitter singles and broken hearts, anti-Valentine's Day sentiments are slowly being echoed by everyone from the voluntarily unattached to the happily married. Anti-Valentine's Day and the newly created Singles Awareness Day are following in the footsteps of anti-commercialism giants like Buy Nothing Day and D-I-Y Christmas.
Brock University's School of Fine and Performing Arts will try their hand at exposing the lost narratives of Canada's coming-of-age through the darkly comedic play, Unity (1918). Unity (1918) was written by playwright Kevin Kerr and published in 2002, shortly thereafter it became the recipient of the Governor General's Award.
Geoff Berner is the kind of musician that makes one want to ask questions - like for one: How does a guy go from writing for Sesame Street, to writing songs about drinking, politics and sex? "When you're writing for TV, you have to largely write to order," said Berner.
Valentine's Day is fast approaching and this week we stopped to ask some couples about their romantic plans. One thing we did not expect was that it would be so difficult to find couples here at Brock. Where's the love, Brock? There's a lack of love in the student population with many students keeping to themselves, boys walking with boys and girls walking with girls.
Curse of the Golden Flower is the latest film by director Zhang Yimou, perhaps best known in North America for his spectacular martial-arts films Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Though Curse of the Golden Flower is not a martial-arts film, there are some impressive fight scenes, one in particular being an especially brilliant scene shot under moonlight.
