Books, brains, and beer
The city of New Westminster has long been a hive for students and patrons of the arts looking to make contributions, and as the years go by, more people are drawn to the growing number of arts events in the area.
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How to kill a hit
A sea of ever-multiplying questions surrounds the shivering, microscopic nucleus that is the Ratchet & Clank movie. Can video game adaptations succeed as films? Will this one? Could it pave the way for more?
Flawed by Design: Character development
The roleplaying game is one of the longest-lived genres in all of video game history. From Richard Garriotâs seminal Ultima series to the glitchy, unrefined majesty of the early Elder Scrolls titles, game designers have sought ever more detailed methods by which to mathematically represent the progression of a player characterâs skill over time.
Producing and you
The hardest thing about being involved in the arts is funding projects. Everything starts from nothing in the world of theatre, so aspiring directors often have to take on the role of producer as well. This means using your own time, money, resources, and contacts to get a project moving.
The Cunning Linguist: Man of straw, feet of clay
If the stereotypes are to be believed, online forums are little more than dung-smeared gladiatorial arenas where the illiterate masses hurl insults at one another morning, noon, and nightânot the best place for an intellectual debate.
Whoever wins, we lose
Somehow, a movie everyone expected to fail still managed to disappoint. Itâll make bank, but that doesnât change the fact that Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice is the cinematic self-destruction of Zack Snyder.
Fight like Hell
The first season of Daredevil was a welcome change from Marvel Studiosâ typical slate of chaotic CGI phantasmagoria, thanks to its neo-noir plot and searing fight choreography.
Mush into muscle
When people talk about bodybuilding, they usually mention larger-than-life figures like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno. Although these men were huge stars in their prime, almost solely responsible for the gym craze of the 1980s, their charismatic public personas did little to dispel the popular idea that bodybuilders are brainless beauties obsessed with âthe pump.â But there is more to muscle than meets the eye.
What you really mean
In my online wanderings, Iâve noticed a very annoying trend among the avidly political pseudo-intellectuals populating social mediaâparticularly the Twitter, Tumblr, and Buzzfeed subspecies.
A novel âProjectâ
On October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepardâa student at the University of Wyomingâwas found severely beaten and tied to a fence, presumably victimized for being homosexual.