Arts
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A winter reading list to get you through the holiday break
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With winter break being only a few weeks away, you might begin to wonder what you’re going to do with all your free time. Sure, you could get started on your readings for next semester like the diligent student you are, or you could read a book that isn’t assigned by your professor. If the…
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Charcuterie boards that are affordable to make with a student budget
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Breaking down the lyrics of “Baby it’s Cold Outside”
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With our love for the holidays comes an equal amount of love for festive songs that aren’t usually approached from a critical perspective, ones which often have the potential to perpetuate problematic notions regarding consent around the holidays. Baby It’s Cold Outside — originally written by Frank Loesser, but popularized by singers like Frank Sinatra,…
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FKA Twigs’ new album is art pop at its finest
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After four long, album-less years, FKA Twigs released her much-anticipated project, Magdalene on Nov. 8. A professional singer and songwriter, Twigs is revered for her avant-garde style. Her performances are grand and sublime, and her music is known for its genre-bending qualities. Magdalene is short and sweet, or rather, quite indulgent. Consisting of only nine…
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Movies that are so bad, they’re good
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Most people don’t like bad movies, and rightfully so. There’s nothing like spending your time, and likely your money, on something that just wasn’t worth it. Some bad movies, however, are very special. They land in the hilarity zone, a zone where the movies are still god awful but are so bad that they become…
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Why professional wrestling deserves more attention
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Pro wrestling is the greatest made-up sport that has ever existed. It’s fake, it’s exaggerated, it’s silly and sometimes pretty stupid — but it’s always entertaining. Unfortunately for me, a lifelong wrestling fan, sometimes I am taunted for my admiration for liking such an odd form of entertainment. And yes, it’s fake — very fake.…
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Zonta film festival puts female directors centre stage
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This week from Nov. 6-9, the ninth annual Zonta Film Festival was held at The Princess Twin Cinemas in Uptown Waterloo. The festival features films by and for women, covering a broad range of topics. With the film industry being largely male-dominated, Zonta provides female filmmakers with a platform to showcase their work to the…
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Petrifying podcasts to get you in gear for the spooky season
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Halloween is just around the corner and with it comes a landslide of spooky content from every direction. Halloween-themed movies, shows, books and even music are on the top of everyone’s radars with major platforms like Netflix and Spotify curating spooky movie and music recommendations for every occasion. During this Halloween content overload, podcasts often…
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Halloween costumes that are better to avoid
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1. The overworn costumes There are countless costumes that have simply been exhausted by the masses, deemed unoriginal, tacky and sad, yet each year these ensembles seem to reappear. For a generation of millennials in need of constant recognition — people dying for attention — I’ve always found it difficult to grasp the completely homogenized,…
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Horror movies worth talking about this Halloween
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Halloween is upon us. That means costumes, trick or treating, carving pumpkins and more. If you’re a film nerd, however, you only have one thing in mind … obsessively annoying people to watch some of your favourite horror flicks. Here are a few scary movies sure to get you in the mood for the spooky…
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