Get your ballots ready
Both the âYesâ and âNoâ side have been fighting to win the upcoming Transportation and Transit Referendum, but the decision will ultimately lie with voters in the Metro Vancouver area.
So you want to be an extra?
Almost every movie, TV show, or music video has at least a couple (and often, several hundred) people in the background of the scene. While the actors are speaking at a party, there have to be other party guests present in the background, or it wouldnât make any sense. The people who portray these non-speaking roles are known as âbackground performers,â or more commonly, âextras.â
Letâs Talk Science: Grafting, milk, and hair loss
Grafting is method of asexual reproduction for plants induced by human-interference. Farmers and gardeners cut a part at an angleâusually diagonallyâof a plant or tree that they want to cultivate or grow.
Chairman of the Board: Thug life
Sometimes you just want to take out your friends and steal their stuff. Luckily, thereâs a game for that.
AI robot lives thug life in latest Neill Blomkamp film
From Neill Blomkamp, director of District 9 and Elysium, comes Chappie, the story of the worldâs first sentient artificial intelligence robot and the implications and misfortunes of his life.
Comic Corner: Good guys turned bad
I wasnât expecting much from Injustice: Gods Among Us, mostly due to the gameâwhich, although good, is little more than a Mortal Kombat clone. Well, Iâm happy to report I was pleasantly surprised with this one. Injustice has action, tragedy, romanceâeverything you could ever want from a totally addicting comic series
Pearls of wisdom, past and present
Every year, the Douglas College creative writing department releases the newest edition of the student anthology Pearls. Filled with studentsâ non-fiction, poetry, fiction, and scripts, each edition offers something new that represents the variety of creative writing at the college. This year, Pearls 34 will be released on March 27 at the anthologyâs launch event, featuring readings from eight of the bookâs contributors.
Loss of a legend
Sam Simon, 59, a prolific television producer, director, writer, philanthropist, and animal rights activist, passed away on March 8, after a three-year battle with cancer. He was diagnosed as terminally ill in 2012 and given three to six months to live. He proved those estimates wrong and showed the world how much one person can truly give back to society.
Shelf Indulgence: Explosions, amputations, and excellent mischief
Iâve always had a soft spot for literature that captures life through the eyes of a child, because children are weird. Childhood is a framework that offers so many opportunitiesâlife to a child is simultaneously light, surreal, frightening, and important in ways that adults so easily forget.
A tall tale thatâs like life, only taller
The gulf between script and performance is invariably wide, and seeing something played before your eyes is very different than just reading about it. Like the circus, perhaps you have to experience it in order to fully appreciate it.