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Our generation is very educated, but we also face a tougher job market than our parents did, so, it’s befitting that we should learn how to make sound financial decisions in a changing economic landscape. Since many say we are entering a new knowledge economy driven by information, I’d like to shift the conversation from […]

The Player 4/5 In art there exists the now-well-documented phenomenon of the “meta”: a piece of art, literature, theatre, film—anything—that is self-referential, self-conscious, about its own existence. In the art world, there’s Andy Warhol’s pop-art “Campbell’s Soup Cans”; literature has Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote; in film, there’s Robert Altman’s The Player (1992). But what […]

Dearest Reader, It is well understood that the ever-mighty marching feet of the feminist movement have traversed a long and unsteady ground throughout the preceding decades. The victories of suffrage and legal gender equality long behind us, the most noble endeavour has fallen to our generation’s finest and brightest to find new enemies, and to […]

Flashback to 16 years ago: Nintendo has just published the second title in its Super Smash Bros. series, Super Smash Bros. Melee. Ring any bells from years past? Melee has over these 16 years become one of the most beloved “have your friends over and beat the snot out of each other” games of all […]

Whiplash 4.5/5 Whiplash (2014) is one of the finest pieces of independent filmmaking—and therefore filmmaking as a whole—in recent history. It’s alive, but it’s not desperate to be; it’s funny, but only because life is funny sometimes; it features young characters that aren’t limp or over-inflated with self-awareness. Most of all, though, Whiplash captures what […]