Beauty - Table of Contents

Mumbai residents get a chance to relax at a carnival and fair in the wake of November 2008 terrorist attacks that left over 170 people dead in the Indian metropolis. Photos were taken by Adeel Hali...

Guess who Summit Entertainment has hired to direct New Moon? I'll give you a hint: it's NOT Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke. Image by Adrian Steeves   Having never read the Twi...

In response to Kevin John's article in the Reflections issue, Joe Lipsett revisits one of his former "Top 10" favourite films: 2000's Academy Award Best Picture winner American Beauty. What he finds i...

What to say when you don't know what to say. People in movies seem to be a lot better off than us. They have better cars, better homes, better clothes, better hair, better jobs, and their mouths ...

For many performers, success isn’t just about staying eternally beautiful, but also eternally young.   What succeeds in popular culture is governed largely by what society considers ...

Kris Millett defies you to absorb his treatise on the state of music, technology, and the human mind all in one uninterrupted sitting. These days, no matter how engaging an online article m...

Trumpeter Clifford Brown lived a short life, but left a lasting legacy.   The only video footage available now of Clifford Brown is on Youtube: a grainy, scratchy clip from an old TV program...

Over the course of the Star Trek franchise, there have been five different ships named Enterprise, but none were as beautiful as the Enterprise D.   I've been re-watching Star Trek: The Next G...

Haircut by Nina Charest Dear Miss Smartypants,   I went to my hairdresser for a trim the other day, and was given a cut that I neither asked for, nor wanted. The cut is beautifully ex...

Homesick by Nina Charest  Dear Miss Smartypants, I'm homesick.  How do I cope? Sad Dear Blankie, Let's assume that you ruled out the obvious solution (go home) for equally...

Miss Smartypants by Nina Charest Dear Miss Smartypants, I'm a university student in a co-op program at school. I really want to apply for an internship abroad (I have a specific one in mind...

Art by Nina Charest Dear Ms. Pants,   I have an extended break coming up, and I want to take my cat home with me.  It's a long drive.  People are telling me to drug him, but I'm wond...

La beauté féminine a été de tout temps une notion difficile à cerner. A quoi la reconnaît-on? Quels en sont les critères essentiels ? Certes, selon les époques et les sociétés, les canons de...

Steve Dominey provides a list of all things beautiful from 2008 (only two months too late!).   1. Me. Steve Dominey forgets that January would be the ideal month to submit a 20...

Frederick Hidell thinks the skinny stars of the CW’s 90210 epitomize a widespread trend towards the homogenization of female beauty.   The biggest problem with the CW’s remake of ...

Is aesthetic beauty a necessity of life?   Croatian author Slavenka Drakulic wrote a beautiful series of essays, entitled Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side o...

Will Parker puts down his fork, knife and spoon long enough to determine whether or not celebrity diets are right for him. It's normally about this time of year when, with my lofty New Year...

Recession means doom and gloom for most Canadian businesses and their employees. However, there are unique opportunities for the consumer during these lean years. Kendall Giberson discusses some of th...