The fun stuff. Calgary has a ton of amazing stuff that happens in our city. Reviews of new movies, or albums, art shows or news about sports.
For those of you reading this who don’t live in Calgary, sorry, but this post may not be very relatable. But for my fellow Calgarians, or even other Canadians, I hope you find this post (consisting mostly of my rants) entertaining! What’s up? (AKA my rant) I’ve always been a fall person (pumpkin spice for…
In this day and age, many new businesses are on the rise, in ways that we would once never imagine. As times are changing, new entrepreneurs must adapt in order to keep up with the competition and make it in a cutthroat world. With that being said, learning from a teenage blogger may not seem…
Released September 17, 2021, Squid Game, a Korean survival thriller took the world by storm. Making its way to #1 on Netflix’s most watched list in 90 countries, it became Netflix’s biggest original series. Despite being around for more than half a century, the South Korean TV and film industry have become more mainstream over…
Preface: My life has always been full of grief. Everything starts and ends eventually, and being the bear witness of that leads to a lot of hurt. Grief comes in forms of understanding, it comes abstractly, and it comes when you least expect it. All we can hope to do is hold on, to ourselves,…
Trigger Warning: This piece includes examples of violence and current issues within society. Viewer discretion is advised. Recently, the mayoral elections happened. We saw a surge in candidates and interest in all areas of the political spectrum. It can be theorized this is due to current resentment of the government, like we saw in the…
Yesterday, one of my hockey fanatic friends invited me to see the Calgary Flames home opener at the Saddledome. Oddly enough, in my ten years of living in Calgary I’d never been to see a game before. Further, I possess very limited hockey knowledge (having only seen a few practices from when I was a…
Saturday: a notepad sat on my desk. The paper’s slick surface reflected a curious yellow hue from a lamp. A clear resin pen, filled halfway with a dark grey ink, lay atop the notepad, a conspicuous accessory. I was up late at night, but the late-night writing did little to help with my insomnia. Rather,…
Towering and intrepid… Like most literary imagining of the future, [Atwood’s] vision is mournful, bleak, and infernal, and is punctuated, in Atwood style, with the occasional macabre joke– Perhaps not unlike Dante’s own literary vision – The New Yorker I will not spoil the story for Oryx and Crake. All the information about this book…
We’ve all experienced a baking phase, there’s no hiding it. That time during the first wave of the COVID pandemic where everyone seemed to be baking banana bread? Yup, been there, done that. It’s crazy to think that before the pandemic, I didn’t even know how to boil an egg. I was that kid who…
After an emotional goodbye to my brother a few days ago, I wanted to relive my experience of him getting into his dream school last December, so here it is! I hope you enjoy! My stomach dropped in anticipation of the news as if I were in a high-speed rollercoaster, though this was his…
A small preface: I think teenage heartbreak is one of the most abstract things in the universe, it doesn’t really make sense that it occurs, since we aren’t trying to love for the long term, and yet, it often hurts more then what we feel when we grow up. The formable parts of years are…
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir can only be described as completely baffling. Known within its (extensive, as in ostensibly millions strong) fandom as Miraculous Ladybug, Miraculous, or simply MLB, it’s a French 3D animated show aimed primarily at a middle grade audience (kids ages 7-12) about two superheroes and, eventually, their classmates and…
I have struggled with poor eyesight for most of my life. Like I mean above -6 kind of struggle. For those of you who don’t have glasses, my prescription is basically how you assume most people with glasses see. In other words, without my glasses, no, I cannot see what that sign says and, no,…
The Truman Show “ You never had a camera in my head” The Truman Show is a science fiction/ drama movie. Its main character is Truman Burbank, whose whole life is a Reality TV Show called The Truman Show. From birth, Truman was being telecasted 24 hours/7days a week on television, and his whole world…
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. – Nathaniel Hawthorne With time passing so quickly, let’s take a look at the 80s in comparison to the present day. One way that time leaves its shadow is through pop culture, and it can be fun to see how various industries have changed over the…