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Inter-university conference takes philosophy out of the classroom and into the public sphere

Jokes in the classroom can get in the way of learning

Comic scene provides platform for emerging talent

Confusion is the order of the day in TNC’s production of The Bald Soprano

“Socrates, is virtue teachable?” asks Meno. And so Plato’s Socratic dialogue, Meno, begins. Meno has, of course, been studied extensively. But rather than offering a… Read More »The theatrics of thought

New exhibit asserts people’s control over public spaces

The Daily’s Gavin Thomson on the cult appeal of The Room

How can a movie be so bad it’s good? I hope to know after watching a rare midnight screening of The Room (2003) this Saturday,… Read More »Not just any room

North of the tracks at 6414 St. Denis, near the Beaubien subway exit, where there are no longer shops and cafés but houses and schools… Read More »Where to go for pho

Three contemporary poets read their work at Green Room

There are few things so pleasurable as guiltlessly eating a cheap and filling meal. For a starving student such as myself, quantity often precedes quality… Read More »The salty, simple taste of cheap

Lecture series limits presentations to seven minutes