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The Best of Love in Media

Wholesome opinions held with sincerity

Distance Makes the Heart Grow Longer (and stronger?)

The positives of long-distance dating

A Review of Hart House’s Legally Blonde: The Musical

  There’s something truly special about the right combination of humour, heart, high-energy choreography, whimsical set-design, and a catchy score— – and this is the exact combination Legally Blonde: The Musical so expertly delivers.     Based on the popular film, and directed by Saccha Dennis, Hart House’s production of Legally Blonde: The Musical follows everyone’s favourite blonde, Elle Wood’s, as she navigates love, life, and ...

Stuck in Love

I was about six years old when I first believed that I was romantically in love with another person. I didn’t even know what his name was., I had seen him on the playground during recess;, his bowl cut, camo pants, and black rainboots filled my stomach with butterflies and made my heart soar. I never interacted with him or even made ...

Vacation reading: Indigenous women’s literature

As an English literature student desperately trying to fulfill the requirements for my major, I find myself reading all the time. However, I hardly get the chance to choose what I read. This past summer and into the winter break, I found myself taken with Canadian Indigenous women’s literature. A ...

The Strand reviews The Two Popes

“Don’t stop, keep moving. Don’t stop, keep moving,” echoes a robotic voice.  Emanating from Pope Benedict XVI’s (Anthony Hopkins) fitness watch, this voice serves as a stark reminder that the Pope cannot evade notifications to meet his daily step count, and perhaps more importantly, that he has made an inescapable ...

We’re thriving in 2020, bitches

Some tunes to start a new decade on a good note

Rosalía’s colonization of Latin music

When the lines of “Latina” are blurred

Cozy winter playlist

It’s winter, whether you like it or not!

Lawrence of Arabia and Victoria University

The epic cinematic story behind the bust of Colonel Lawrence at Victoria University