During the Fuel the Fire leadership conference last Saturday, keynote speaker Kristi Wieser, class of ‘84, left attendees with an important message: live your values every day. She explained to students that she chose to work at IBM, a large multinational corporation, because of the company’s core values. I appreciate this message as I near…
Hey everyone, my name is Matt and I am a History and Religion major here at Concordia who has a passionate love for film. Because of this I’ve decided to write about films that I think are worth your time to watch and that you should make time for during your study breaks this semester. …
Title Fight opened their first tour of 2013 at the New Direction in Fargo. It’s a cozy little venue situated in a basement on Roberts Street in Fargo, right next to Paradox comics. The venue is significantly smaller than the Aquarium, only capable of holding approximately 200 people unless the staff finds it suitable to…
The Faculty Art Exhibition, currently running in Concordia’s Cyrus M. Running Gallery, combines the talents of nine distinctive artists with styles that embrace the dramatic and the demure, the whimsical and the dark, the bold and the reserved. The pieces range from intaglio, watercolor, and graphite prints to graphic design to mixed media sculpture. It…
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“I will not be a statistic, just let me be No child left behind, that’s the American scheme I make my living off of words And do what I love for work And got around 980 on my SATs” The opening track on Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ new album, The Heist, is titled “Ten Thousand…
Bob Dylan’s music has led him to many different types of accomplishments and has left him with nothing left to prove, but he still has a lot to say. With his 35th studio album, Tempest, he says a number of these different things in a number of different ways. Like all of the other Dylan…
This week, songwriter Natasha Khan (better known by her stage name Bat for Lashes) released her first studio album since the critically acclaimed 2009 album Two Suns. Natasha had already begun making a name for herself in 2008 when she opened for Radiohead, but it is Two Suns’ hit single Daniel that marked her entrance…
Female musicians are as prevalent today as they have ever been. Today’s radio charts are littered with female vocals of all kinds — singer/songwriters, pop stars, country sweethearts. But female pop stars found on today’s top charts have in some way all molded themselves after the same icon, whether they know it or not: the…
Does your band include a projectionist as a full time band member? Didn’t think so… Godspeed You! Black Emperor, however, does. And if you’re wondering what kind of a name that is, you’re not alone. The nine-member instrumental anti-government post-rock ensemble from Montreal were on hiatus between 2003 and 2010, and Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!…