Down With Webster revisits Laurier with energetic show at the Turret
It was Orientation Week in 2010 when I first attended one of the many Down With Webster concerts that have taken place at Wilfrid Laurier University over the course of their...
Colleen Connolly
When the ‘real world’ hits
The Masters Student Just a few short months after finishing his undergrad, Brandon Kuepfer was a first-year again At the offset, the Institute for the History and...
Forecast danger in K-W
While the city continues to tend to the damages and tidy the mess that July 19’s storm pitched upon Kitchener-Waterloo, we have to wonder how long it will be until the next...
Three perspectives, one record
The Rap Perspective Ever since Kanye West’s May 1 tweet announcing the date of his sixth solo studio album, fans and critics alike knew that this was going to be a...
Hockey, to headliner
The first time Chad Brownlee performed for a university crowd was when Tim Mahoney played at a pub near Minnesota State during the country singer’s student years A few of...
Rolling into a new derby
By day, Kat Hillier is a legal assistant working towards her masters in counselling psychology But by night —Wednesdays and Sundays to be exact — she is Nekro Nancy, a...
Do you have what it takes?
The various vocal sounds of Laurier Idol’s eight final contestants filled the Concourse last Wednesday, turning many a head as students made their way to and from late...
Old Books in a New Age
Floor to ceiling makeshift shelves, tightly packed with an ancient, musty medium, line the quiet, crowded rooms of Old Goat Books in Uptown Waterloo These volumes have...
When foreign becomes familiar
On Dec 22, Michael Koziura looked out at the familiar form of Toronto’s CN Tower from the window of his plane as it dove into landing There was a comfort at the sight of its...
Social movements deserve our appreciation
Last Wednesday, Jan 16, a national day of action organized by Canada’s Idle No More movement stirred nation- wide protests in the name of Aboriginal rights The movement...