ARTS

To all the roommates I loved before

You browse the shelves at Indigo, perusing the romance section for another enemies-to-lovers book to spice up your life. But you want something new…something exciting. You pick up a book titled The Roommate, already auto-filling the story in your head before you’ve even read the summary on the sleeve.  Through ...

To love and live on the runway

Vivienne Westwood’s SS24 collection, and the memorialisation of fashion designers
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The Interconnectedness of Love

In a world full of binaries, love has often become one of them. In our culture and society, we construct binaries to categorise and hierarchise people, concepts, experiences, and identities. Rather than see connections and relations between things, we tend to separate and compare them. This can be seen in ...

Robots have feelings too: art in the digital age

Why is everyone saying this robot looks tired?

From love to surveillance: the emergence of the Lovot

In a time of increasing AI anxiety, could these little creatures be the ones to spread love? 

Wise words from the concussed: a reflection on tantalising technology

I had the misfortune of acquiring a concussion the very first weekend back from school. The average person knows what this means: no screen time, no cognitively heavy activities, and a strong emphasis on shutting your brain off for a few days to weeks of time. In summary, a UofT ...

1989 (Taylor’s Version)

The New Testament of our generation's pop Bible

The last laugh

A sitcom, or situational comedy, is a “serialised comedic program where each episode revolves around a different situation. In each different situation, however, there is the same cast of characters who return from episode to episode.” This style of television was at its peak in the 90s, with sitcoms such ...
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Boxing in pursuit of greatness

“Character is that quality upon which you can depend under pressure and other conditions. Character makes the fighter predictable. Character helps him win.” These are the famous words of Cus D’Amato, arguably one of the greatest boxing trainers of all time. Cus trained three world heavyweight champions, including Mike Tyson. ...

An Ode to Sundays