Do thrift stores actually reduce waste?
Holly Dressel puts second-hand shopping doubts to rest
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A kill-joy, and loving it
Sara Ahmed challenges the figure of the happy housewife
Holy shit!
A meditation on the finer points of feces
One person’s trash is another one’s dinner
An introduction to dumpster diving for the frugal foodie
The art of waste
San Francisco residency program brings artists to the dump
Step right up to the three-ring landfill
A closer look at the history of Montreal’s greenest circus
The art of seduction
Burlesque life drawing class promotes positive body image
Culture Brief: This zine is a safe space
Running annually since the nineties, Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students’ Society (SACOMSS)’s art show “Fire with Water” seeks to douse the pain of sexual… Read More »Culture Brief: This zine is a safe space
Dark little love songs
Julie Doiron’s fragile songs have the intimacy of a basement tape session
Gender and the invisible emperor
Visiting professors dish the dirt on Japanese hegemony
FOKUS film festival
TV McGill’s FOKUS film festival is back for a third year, with another colourful lineup of student submissions. This year’s festival has films in five… Read More »FOKUS film festival
An orchestral homage to the physics of light
Sam Shalabi reprises his latest epic composition
Culture Briefs
On the road Jack Kerouac and Vladimir Nabokov wrote about it. Bob Dylan sang its praises. David Lynch and Dennis Hopper made films in which… Read More »Culture Briefs
Rethinking raw concrete
Exploring the ideals behind brutalist architecture
Stuck on Shuffle: From Crystal Zimbabwolf to Sex Mammoth
The naming conventions of indie music – a primer