There's nothing new about record companies throwing their weight around. Since, Napster they have sought to control access to illegal music, encouraged by artists such as Metallica, who themselves...
This week, France mourns the loss of one of the nation’s most influential anthropologists and thinkers. Claude Lévi-Strauss died after enduring cardiac arrest last Friday, just twenty-nine days...
The self declared visionary Joe Coleman has been making waves in Irish religious circles for the past few weeks. He claims that that the Virgin Mary speaks to him on a regular basis, specifically...
David Letterman has been the king of late night for decades. From stupid animal tricks to tossing out canned hams to the audience, he has kept the laughs coming. Part of his charm is his ability to...
Canada was originally divided into Upper and Lower Canada. This division was based upon linguistics and culture and to this day, there continues to be a lack of harmony between Anglophones and...
A shocking video which outraged Afrikaners in 2008 has resurfaced, if only to once again emphasize the privileges of its elite, white male students. The University of the Free State in Bloemfontein,...
“A sunny place for shady people." Somerset Maugham's famous remark about Monaco can easily be applied to Northern Cyprus. Yet it looks as though it's all about to change. The Turkish Republic of...
Kyiv's Gogolfest has both grown and remained distinctly itself - not the easiest feat to pull off. Combining theater, music, visual art and workshops, the festival is the brainchild of Vlad Troitsky,...
My grandmother, who's from Pittsburgh, was very afraid that I'd turn out not American enough, so she taught me the Pledge of Allegiance and the "Star-Spangled Banner," asking me to recite them every...
Though the models of Playboy are often depicted as cartoonish and over-the-top, the magazine is now taking this one step further: Marge Simpson is posing for the magazine. On Friday, newsstands in...
