When Sun Belt, an interdisciplinary arts group, set out to make their debut album, they ended up with more than a collection of catchy tracks. The result was an instrumental and lyric digital album, Cabalcor, accompanied by a mixed-genre book, Cabalcor: An Extracted History.
Although the robot-fighting game genre has been around since the heyday of Robot Wars in the early 2000s, now you can savour the destruction of all your engineering and programming work in the comfort of your own home.
I will admit I am not the biggest Star Trek fan. I much prefer the character-driven, sci-fi exploits of narratives such as Star Wars. However, even I am aware of the classic episode The City on the Edge of Forever from the original Star Trek series.
Veronica Roth’s Insurgent, the second instalment of the wildly successful Divergent trilogy, has hit the big screen in full force. When we last saw lead heroine Tris (Shailene Woodley) and her lover-in-arms Four (Theo James)
Anne Shirley, the title character in Anne of Green Gables, may seem old-fashioned, but add a computer, cell phone, and other modern day conveniences and she’s just like any other teenager.
High school can be an exciting and confusing time for many young people, especially if you’re 28 years old and reliving the experience through your eighth-grade diary.
In 415 BC, Euripides’ The Trojan Women posed a political criticism of the unprovoked Greek warfare against peaceful Melos.
Hideaki Anno, of Studio Gainax, was facing disillusionment with his fanbase following his work on Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water when hedecided to create a savage deconstruction of the popular Giant Mecha genre in 1995.
On March 20, Monty Robinson was reported guilty of perjury in the Robert Dziekanski case.
Gender Avenger, an online group created in 2013 to raise awareness of disparities, developed an app that tracked the genders of panelists at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) conference and festival.
