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Kellylee Evans: No Longer wanting to be The Good Girl
Kellylee Evans: No Longer wanting to be The Good Girl
Mix alternative soul, pop, and determination to stay true to yourself, and you get an album full of honesty and groove.
By Agnes Cadieux, 18 Mar 2010
Culture
How Chasing Urine Became Fashionable
How Chasing Urine Became Fashionable
The phrase "fox hunting" evokes an image of upper-crust British men on thoroughbred horses chasing hounds across dale and moor. Who knew that the origins of fox hunting lay with Prehistoric man?
By Kelsa Staffa, 17 Mar 2010
Cinema
You Should Be Watching: Bollywood
You Should Be Watching: Bollywood
Take a cinematic journey east.
By Emily Goodacre, 16 Mar 2010
Advice
Ask Miss Smartypants - March 15, 2010
Ask Miss Smartypants - March 15, 2010
Art: Nina Charest Dear Miss Smartypants, Every once and a while, I'll scroll through the numbers on my phone and see the name of someone I used to talk to, or type in an address in Facebook or email and have something other than what I intended pop up, and I'll wonder, whatever happened to X? I'm not talking about tracking down some old high school friends or Facebook stalking people from way back when. These are people that up until a few months ago or within the last year I used to ...
By Miss Smartypants, 15 Mar 2010
Culture
China Dérive: Evolving Civilization
China Dérive: Evolving Civilization
China’s industrial evolution is taking its toll on local residents who are witnessing the destruction of their communities. How do we stay connected in a world that is constantly being torn apart?
By Adam J. Smith, 12 Mar 2010
Music
The Double Edge of Musical Evolution
The Double Edge of Musical Evolution
Change is inevitable in music, so why do audiences reject it?
By Mike Cullen, 11 Mar 2010
Theatre
blood.claat: A Cycle of Blood
blood.claat: A Cycle of Blood
d'bi.young anitafrika fuses theatre and poetry to explore the life of a 15 year-old Jamaican girl.
By Wayne Current, 10 Mar 2010
Food
Go West
Go West
Vancouver wins gold in culinary destinations!
By Will Parker, 10 Mar 2010
TV
Medea vs The O.C.
Medea vs The O.C.
Has drama evolved at all since its debut at the Theatre of Dionysus?
By Shannon Wood, 9 Mar 2010
Advice
Ask Miss Smartypants - March 8, 2010
Ask Miss Smartypants - March 8, 2010
Art: Nina Charest Dear Miss Smartypants, My 13-year-old son, a well-behaved, sweet boy, already has what I perceive as a strange fetish. He loves and is fascinated by latex gloves. When he was little, he would stop in front of the rubber glove display at the supermarket and just stare at the packages of dishwashing gloves. He wanted me to buy them for him, but he would never tell me why. Now that he's older, he goes online to medical supply Web sites and "shops" for rubber gloves. Rec...
By Miss Smartypants, 8 Mar 2010

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Consider the orchid. Charles Darwin thought that this family of flowers, numbering 25,000 varieties, each singularly adapted to the insects in its
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