Pure Volume is a music inspired social networking website made for upcoming artists seeking the exposure they need. Created in 2003 by a group of students attending the University of Massachusetts. This website focuses on indie music which is music that is not mainstream. Ever heard of Paramore, Boys Like Girls, Fall Out Boy, Hawthorne…
DetailsYou may have seen an earlier post on Light Photography and thought, “Wow, I can’t do that…” I have always been stunned by light photography photos and have been wanting to try it out for a long time. Finally, I enjoyed one of the last warm autumn nights and learned how. Two friends and I…
Details♥Love is merely madness. (William Shakespeare) ♥Hate the sin, love the sinner. (Mahatma Gandhi) ♥If you would be loved, love and be lovable. (Benjamin Franklin) ♥We can only learn to love by loving. (Iris Murdoch) ♥To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. (Karen Sunde) ♥Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love…
DetailsFriday and Saturday The Wonder of Chopin This weekend, celebrate one of Poland’s greatest musicians, Frédéric Chopin, with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and piano prodigy Jan Lisiecki. The young 15-year-old Calgarian will play Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 as the orchestra plays Saint-Saëns powerful Organ Symphony. For tickets, call 403-571-0849. Friday and Saturday Gender, Culture…
DetailsA great big thanks is in order to Kids Up Front, who donated two General Admission tickets to YouthAreAwesome.com so we could tell you all about the Calgary Internatinal Film Festival (CIFF)! To start off, let me say CIFF is huge. Maybe not comparable to Cannes or the LA Film Fest, but there’s still so much…
Details“Art is the focal point of all the great civilizations of the world. The spirit of the community is found in the arts.” When most of us think of Calgary, we think of the bustling roads that criss-cross our busy, oil-oriented city, and the wide rolling landscape of golden canola plants and wheat. But Calgary…
DetailsOkay, I think it’s time to return to book reviews. I will start with my favourite series, the Hunger Games trilogy. This trilogy is composed of The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay. Basically… a war destroyed North America, but from the rubbles rose a dictatorship called Panem. Panem is made up of a high-tech…
Details***SPOILER ALERT*** Anyone watch Glee lately?? Well, I dunno about you, but I definitely did. Am I really the only one who noticed how different Rachel was in different parts of the show? Like, seriously, one minute she’s being all bad-butt, the next she’s singing “The Only Exception” oh-so sweetly to Fin. Make up your…
DetailsYouth have a great opportunity to explore unique and innovative professions this October! The TELUS World of Science is hosting two FREE career path conferences for teens aged 12 to 17. The SMASH Careers conference invites young men to meet Jay Ingram (Discovery Channel), Michael Morrison (Mike’s Bloggity Blog) and Derrick Sobrien (Networks Etcetera) while…
DetailsIt seems that natural disasters are just taking over the headlines – what with the devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, the flood in the Philippines and now the recent floods in Pakistan, the world needs a little help to get back up onto its feet. Some of that help was raised on Sept. 12,…
DetailsCHINOOK CENTRE HAS OFFICIALLY EXPANDED! Here’s the list of new stores (the ones with an asterisk will be opening later). A/X Armani Exchange* I Abercrombie & Fitch I Aerie I Aldo Collection Anthropologie* I Ben Moss Jewellers I BCBG Max Azria I Bench Bloke & Bird* I Bluenotes I Boathouse I Browns Shoes I Buffalo…
DetailsBeing on the alternative rock scene for about 13 years now, Interpol has consistently been one of my more popular groups in the genre. Three years after their highest ranking album Our Love to Admire, Interpol has returned with their fourth album, self-titled Interpol. You won’t find the most insane guitar solos here, nor the…
DetailsIf you’re keeping tabs on me (no obligation, but if you are, I’m flattered ;)), you will have probably noticed that I have not provided Youth Are Awesome with a NeRdy special in quite some time. I apologize for this and am here to provide my explanation, which can simply be described in the four…
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