Scraps - Table of Contents

Forget anything you thought you knew about Jesus Christ and come meet Joshua, the real Messiah. In the national best selller, Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff, Christopher Moore takes a hilarious jo...

"I saved Latin. What did you ever do?" Sometimes we wish we could be someone else. Or, if not someone else entirely, at least pick up a characteristic from someone else. We look in the mirr...

(Cult)ure Magazine's film editor and reviewer, Kevin Johns, explains why his favourite discarded scenes from films like Trainspotting, The 25th Hour, Daredevil Director’s Cut and The Lord of the Ri...

In this personal essay, Chrissy Sudjana examines the roles available to Asian actors in Hollywood based on her experience screening the new mockumentary Finishing The Game: The Search for the Next Bru...

Be aware consumers, new Canadian copyright laws could restrict access to electronic music, movies, and literature. Alroy Fonseca examines how Canada can scrap copyright abuse by pursuing progressive o...

Alex Trottier from (Cult)u're Magazine exposes the celebrity-gone-wrong cycle of child TV stars, who have been scrapped by their family, TV studios, and fans. A precocious daughter whose fat...

Erin Jennings from (Cult)u're Magazine explores TLC's, What Not To Wear, and how the TV make-over craze has fostered a contemporary fascination with self-transformation. As I sit on the co...

Neil Perry critiques The Unit and its portrayal of US Army structure. The 303rd Logistical Studies Unit is where your husband works, that's his cover. Other than that this unit has no nam...

The television series, Tudors brings to life Henry VIII’s controversial rule. Shannon Wood explores how historical realities can be scrapped for fiction in this show’s entangled web of sex, power ...

Creating a new society from the scraps leftover by one destroyed is for most an excercise in thought.  On Battlestar Galactica, its a fact of life. Check out how the show's characters prove to be wor...

For anyone who missed the premier of the CBC’s new show, MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives, fear not!  Steve Dominey breaks down the first episode for you, while providing his own wry commentar...

Despite their perceived goodwill, Mayor Larry O'Brien's recent Kindness Meters - designed to filter money to charities that work with the homeless instead of giving money to pandhandlers - carry with ...

Western societies have scraps of information about how our technology works, but we do not understand the intricate mechanical processes that drive these machines we rely on. Lauren Cheal argues that ...

Terrah Smith argues that FOUND magazine is a recycled form of voyeurism which taps into an interesting resource- society's disgarded notes. The publication is a great opportunity to harmlessly laugh ...

SCRAP 2007… And get ready for a new taste and approach to 2008… We have ALL done it – we have ALL made overwhelming personal promises to ‘better’ ourselves and our lives each comi...

Hannah McGregor takes a closer look at Dove’s Real Beauty Campaign and how it’s advertisements represents a halfway point towards a more accepting standard of beauty.   Beauty, as we all k...

Julie St. Cyr examines the television industry's obsession with thin women in her review of America's Next Top Model. She issues a call for Tyra Banks to pave the way and lead the industry in scrappin...

  Do you have an ever-expanding yarn stash threatening to spill out and take over the whole living room? Crafting handmade items can be a more meaningful way to get involved in a good cause then j...

India stands as a majestic nation of huge economic promise, but its failure to address the underlying conditions that pertain to the Maoist Naxalite insurgency could be the one thing preventing it fr...

Ayat Ahmed examines the success of microfinancing in international development, and calls for a renewed commitment to this scheme in 2008.   With the advent of a new year, people reflect...

Despite our best efforts to make Canadian routes navigable through the use of salt, sand and plows, we still experience more traffic accidents. Kendall Giberson argues that winter traffic accidents c...