Photo of the Day: Infinity Pool, Singapore
Image Courtesy National Geographic
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.
Video of the Day: Peacock Dance
Being Chinese in heritage, it was only natural that I watch the the annual CCTV New Year’s Gala with my family come Chinese New Year. In a nutshell, the New Year’s Gala is a ginormous compilation of Chinese art, dance, acrobatics, song, and comedy (with the occasional foreign act – this year there was a…
10 captivating reads for book enthusiasts
I don’t know about you guys, but personally, I’m really weary of clichéd must-read-before-you-die promotional book lists. Usually, the novels suggested on those types of lists would end up following one of those lame, unoriginal plots (and they lived happily ever after), or it would end up being one of those implausible romance stories where the…
The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra wows the crowd with Grieg’s Piano Concerto
Edvard Grieg was a brilliant Norwegian composer and pianist, recognized most famously for his Piano Concerto in A Minor.
OK Go’s pretty awesome music video
The band OK Go is known for their extremely innovative music videos; some of these including “Here It Goes Again” using treadmills and “This Too Shall Pass,” which actually has two music videos, one using a very impressive Rube Goldberg device and the other using a marching band. Their newest video, “Needing/Getting,” was released on…
Youth Rock Camp! Starting February 27
Do you LOVE music? Do you enjoy sharing your music with others? Would you be interested in forming a band, recording music, or performing live? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, then the Youth Rock Camp program is something you should be checking out! Created by the New Black Music & Arts…
Bon Iver: I Can’t Make You Love Me
Inspired by Bon Iver after such a great performance on the Feb 4 edition of Saturday Night Live, I thought it’d be appropriate to at least post this beautiful Bon Iver cover of Bonnie Raitt‘s 1991 classic “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” Justin Vernon performed this piece on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with…
City of Bones Review (The Mortal Instruments #1)
If you haven done so, please read my introduction to “The Mortal Instruments” before reading this review. So I was looking for a fast paced book that I could just read, be entertained, and then forget. Being the problem solving genius that I am, I typed in “fast paced novels” on this search engine called…
Photo of the Day: Starbucks
I promise I am not a spokesperson from Starbucks. Here is the result of another photo shoot at the coffee shop.
Album Review: Kathleen Edwards’ Voyageur
While Kathleen Edwards may not be a familiar name to many, Bon Iver sure is. This is one of the points singer songwriter Edwards made about the advantages and disadvantages of having Justin Vernon, Bon Iver’s frontman, as her new beau. In an interview with the Globe and Mail, she said, “The nice dull side…
The Vipers are gone??
Today I’m going to talk about one of the most popular, influential and well-known sport teams in Calgary. That’s right, I’m talking about the Calgary Vipers. Now the fact that my first sentence is very ironic is sad because it displays a lack of awareness for Calgary’s very own baseball team. Many Calgarians know every…
The Name of the Wind blew my breath away
I know that the name of fantasy has been somewhat defaced by the emergence of books such as Twilight (I apologize if I’m offending anyone with this statement) and various other dark “romance” books whose only selling point is that they take advantage of the teenage girl’s tendency to be attracted to supernaturally sexy/bad boy personalities.…
Photo of the Day: Awesome 3-D Chalk Drawing
By Andrew Greene
Calgary Opera delivers an innovative peformance of Moby Dick
A larger-than-life book adaptation of a beloved classic, Moby Dick, was recreated for the first time in Canada. Calgary Opera shines in this nautical tale, combining a humongous whale of a tale with an impressive nautical set.
Calgary Public Library’s contest for Freedom to Read Week!
Have you ever wondered what life might be like without books, magazines, the Internet, or any other information resources? It might be a crisis for us to finish our homework without Wikipedia (oh, the horror of SOPA!), but in many parts of the world, there is immense censorship, from books to the internet. Even here…