This kid is five years old, and he’s already better at trumpet than many trumpeters with years of experience! Geoffrey Gallante can really play the trumpet, and he first started playing at the age of three! Geoffrey has been featured on many news casts and has been the star of the stage countless times. From…
Trick or Treat! Smell my feet! Give me something good to eat! This famous rhyme will be echoed all over Calgary in just 31 short days. Halloween, the favourite holiday of so many kids, is celebrated on October 31st. People dress up in costumes, go trick-or-treating, go to haunted attractions, and give out candy. Most…
Well, school is definitely back in session and that means that homework and tests abound. Most of the time, we study and work until we get the right answer. Sometimes we end up guessing. These people appear to have thrown caution to the wind and used a different form of logic altogether. Don’t try this at…
Do you like unscripted entertainment? Well how about improv? Proudly brought to you by ‘The Improv Guild’ is The 2nd Annual Calgary International Improv Festival. This festival will feature Los Angeles Impro, Vancouver Theatresports, Edmonton’s Rapid Fire Theatre and our own Calgary Improv Guild. It is “Seriously, funny theatre.” On Wednesday night to kick off…
Usually, saying that you are a “Gleek” would not be the coolest thing ever, but this Fall, Glee is the biggest new show! Glee is a comedy about a teacher who risks taking over the glee club at his school. Everyone thinks he’s nuts, because this glee club consists of five members, and let’s…
Remember the Rubix Cube? Different colours, brain twister toy, IMPOSSIBLE to solve? Now there’s a Rubik’s cube that’s computerized, just in case the original wasn’t hard enough. This new cube, called the Rubik’s TouchCube doesn’t require you to twist or rotate it. Instead, just a simple swipe of the finger will do it. There’s many different…
Calgary is haunted?! Well, sort of. See Calgary in an entirely different perspective with a ‘ghost tour’. Enjoy an evening of spine-tingling entertainment with spooky local ghost stories and a dash of Calgary history. All the stories have been thoroughly researched from the Glen Bow Museum and Ft. Calgary archives, newspapers, personal accounts and interviews.…
Have you heard of the marshmallow test? It may sound delicious, but it really is a test of self-control for early age children. This test was conducted around the 1960s and it is being brought to our attention in the recent years. This test is simple; a pre-school child is being brought to a empty…
FreeRice is a website that is devoted to donate rice through the UN World Food Program to help end world hunger! All you have to do is go on there and answer some questions! Questions range from English vocabulary to Math questions to identifying countries on a map. For each correct answer you give, 10 grains…
Metromint is fresh. It is flavourful. It is pesticide-free. It is beyond amazing. I cannot stress how mind-blowing the combination of real mint and water is. The mint is grown in Washington State’s Yakima Valley, one of the finest mint growing regions in North America. They purify their water with reverse-osmosis, leaving their water like…
What makes your life normal? Is it the things your teacher says in class, some funny coincidence, or something funny someone said? My Life is Average is a spin-off of fmylife.com. It’s for all those whose lives are everyday and mundane. Everyone has sometime in their life that is inexciting, or insignificant, and My Life…
Not in the mood to do homework, want to take a break? Or simply bored and looking to pass some time? Well how about taking a quiz, but this is not the typical quiz about ‘How old you really are’ or ‘What the first letter of your crush is’. No, this is ‘The Impossible…
Have you ever lost a camera before? A memory card? A photograph? Well, don’t lose faith. There actually ARE nice people out there who wish to return them to their rightful owners! Found Cameras and Orphan Pictures is a blog that updates every Thursday, posting photos from the cameras or memory cards that people have…
September is nearly upon us, and with only a few weeks left until you’re back chatting in the halls and studying for math tests! Naturally, it’s time to start keeping an eye out for the back-to-school/university trends. If you’re tightening the belt a little this year, that’s okay, because there is a super-cool site…
Then this might interest you…(and by short, I mean short…) These short stories are actually just six-words long. No joke! They’re called six-word memoirs at SMITH Magazine, a home for all forms of storytelling. What they are most known for is their Six-Word Memoirs series. In 2008, they published Not Quite What I Was Planning:…