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Guests Welcome! • Can apply for membership at the door Friday Dec. to Saturday Dec. ii - LEFF TRAVELLED NEW YEAR'S EVE - Kick off the New Year with Wed. Dec. 29 - Latin Jazz Ni9ht with PAPA MAMBO THE TARBENDERS and THE ADVENTURES Every Sunday: ALL THE KINGSMEN 2 THE PROJECTOR I DECEMBER 6, 2004 News briefs :PROJECTOR BY THE PROJECTOR NEWS STAFF a wireless network area which three, 10 work sessions in a deal- allows laptops to access the ership. SA executives fight for Internet without plugging in. The program is unique in students in Ottawa Editor-in-Chief that students already have jobs. ASSET program Shannon Martin Dealerships from across the prov- Students' Association president graduates students [email protected] ince send employees to ASSET to Ryan Mariani and vice-president become trained technicians. of finance Becky Turner attended On Nov. 25, Red River College Hammerling says majority of News Editor the annual Canadian Alliance of officially graduated its first 10 the 25 dealerships in Manitoba Alana Pona Students' Associations (CASA) qualified Ford technicians from have sent students, with approxi- [email protected] Lobby Conference in Ottawa. the Automotive Student Service mately 13 students in three sepa- They met with MP's and sena- Educational Training (ASSET) rate classes. tors to discuss dedicated transfer program. Each ASSET graduate will Entertainment Editor payment for post-secondary The two-year ASSET program receive a diploma, a $1,000 Ryan Hladun education, expanding the low- is sponsored by Ford and Ford- cheque, a watch and a leather entertainment@theprojector ca income grant program and allow- Lincoln dealers in Manitoba. Its jacket from Ford of Canada. Ford ing students to apply tax credits goal is to replenish the dwindling has also contributed $400,000 in Layout/Photo Editor to the principal of their student number of qualified automotive tools, specialized equipment, and Trevor Kuna loans. service technicians, as well as to vehicles to the program. [email protected] "The week was hugely success- offer an alternative career choice. Steve Mutter, one of the 10 ful," said Turner. Ziggy Hammerling, one of two recent graduates of ASSET, is back instructors with the course, says to work at Mid-Town Ford Sales Layout/Photo Editor Notre Dame gets ASSET was created after Ford Ltd. of Winnipeg. Lindsay Winter new student lounge surveyed their technicians and Mutter wrote his journeyman's [email protected] discovered a senior population. test on Nov .27 and is thinking of The Notre Dame campus is "The program is to help bet- specializing in air-conditioning. now home to a new student study ter satisfy customers with a 'fix it Advertising and Sales Manager "I'd recommend the course. lounge. right the first time' attitude," he It goes further in-depth. The Guy Lussier The Workshop offers seating [email protected] says. instructors are friendly, and it's for up to 100 people, 14 comfort- The program is divided into people helping other people to able armchairs and 39 computer two parts: with four, eight week get ahead." drops. The area is equipped with classroom sessions along with Projector Interns

Editor-in-Chief Intern Editor-in-Chief Intern Jillian Brown Mike Uhrich SA launches petition News Editor Intern News Editor Intern program which is on the semester I don't understand why they don't Leslie Williamson Lindsay Payette system are attending class for 17 have the same schedule as the tudents who thought they weeks without a break before the universities," says Hutmacher. He Entertainment Editor Intern Entertainment Editor Intern might not be receiving a end of the first term, and 16 weeks says his course is becoming more Jen Zoratti Alan Mackenzie reading week this year can without a break before the end of difficult as the semester goes on. holds that thought, due to an argu- the school year. "I could really use a break in the Layout/Photo Intern Layout/Photo Intern ment raised by Craig Loewen, Vice "Reading week is essential for second semester, with work and Grant Burr Justen Vogt President of the Princess Street their well being and for their school it is going to be tough to campus's Students' Association. holistic education," says Partap. keep up. I could use the time to Loewen released a memo Partap says if students are serious get caught up with my assign- Contributing Writers and Photographers expressing his concern about about obtaining a reading week ments and spend some time with students not receiving a reading break they must, "do it with pas- my friends and family" week break during the second sion or it will die". A petition is being circulated Kaleigh Allison Valerie Kowalski semester. Students who are on Kyle bakx Teresa Murray Neil Hutmacher, a first-year which students can sign in favor Ian Calliou Nathan Nudalh the semester system only receive business administration student, of a reading week break. Dave Dickie a "mini break" which gives them Chad Scarsbrook says he would like to see the col- For more information you Evan Duncan Zurick Scherger just two days off, February the lege have a break in the second can contact Craig Loewen at Shawna Forester Shawna Skrudland 25th and 28th instead of a full term. Melni Ghattora Krista Simonson [email protected] Darryl Gunther Jared Story week. "Red River is a great school, but Corinne Innes Josiah Thiessen This has been the reality since Brook Jones Carly Thompson JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST CERVICAL CANCER some courses at Red River College Chris Kitching R.D. Warden went from the trimester system, Worldwide, cervical cancer is the 5th most common cause of death to the semester system. from cancer in women. Cervical cancer can be/may be caused by "From what I've seen, the stu- Human Papilloma Virus, or HPV, which is transmitted during sexual dents need it," Loewen says. intercourse. Infection with HPV is very common Everyone who Loewen says the most impor- becomes sexually active is at risk of infection. 3 out of every 4 tant thing for students when it sexually active women get an HPV infection at some point in their Thanks comes to reading week is the time lives-young women are more likely to be infected. they need to recuperate and catch The PATRICIA clinical Research Trial is a large-scale, clinical up on their work. "People need to research trial of a new cervical cancer vaccine. By joining-you could get caught up in their lives." help millions of women in the future reduce their risks of developing From all the staff at the Loewen says the best way for cervical cancer-if the vaccine proves to be as effective as indicated in the students to be heard is to earlier studies. Projector. w e thank you show their support. "It's do or die YOU can volunteer for the for the break," Loewen says. PATRICIA Clinical Research Trial if for your support . you are: RRC is the only major post-sec- • A woman aged 15-25 years of age. ondary institution in Manitoba • In good health. that does not follow a similar cal- • endar when it comes to a reading Not pregnant and intending to become pregnant in the next 8 months. Contact the Projector at: week break. Larry Partap, coordinator of IF you are enrolled in the PATRICIA Clinical Trial you will receive Phone: 204.949.8466 the creative communications 3 doses of a vaccine over a 6-month period. You will receive either: Fax: 204.949.9159 program says, "If we want to be • The PATRICIA vaccine against the HPV infections that cause The Projector looked at in the same way as 70% of cervical cancers; OR c/o Red River College Students' Association other post-secondary institutions • A 'control' vaccine against HEPATITIS A infection, which P 110 - 160 Princess Street why don't we have a break?" causes liver disease. Partap says students who take a Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 1K9 During the 4 years of the clinical research trial you will have regular blood tests, medical examinations and pelvic examinations. For advertising information, contact Guy Lussier at: If you are interested or want to ask questions, please call 204.632.2070 Dr. Aoki's Research Clinic at (204) 789-3480 Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m.4:00p.m. AN HONORARIUM WILL BE PROVIDED THE PROJECTOR I DECEMBER 6, 2004 V Drug dealer advertises in college washrooms Hallucinogenic unknown to Winnipeg Police drug unit

BY ALANA PONA says a member of drug is safe and cern." the drug unit. hard to find. The federal department is he president of Red Rick Lawler, "The plants monitoring claims that the drug River College's Students' a 47-year-old are fairly new in causes hallucinations, out of TAssociation is appalled student at the Canada. Other folks body experiences, unconscious- after hearing a hallucinogenic Princess Street have asked about it ness and short-term memory drug was being advertised in the campus says he and I've passed on loss. men's public washroom at the noticed the ads some stuff," says "It is on that list and we will Princess Street campus. in the washroom Chris. continue to monitor the situ- "As a student leader, I am during the week of The leaf of the ation in Canada to see if there curious to know how long they Nov. 15. sage plant can is any federal intervention is were in the washrooms and how "It looked like be smoked or required to start regulating it," many times people make sure someone had laid absorbed under the Saunders says. the atmosphere is appropriate," them out as a form tongue (in a liquid Shannon Cudmore, a 21- says Ryan Mariani. of advertising. I form) for a powerful year-old student at Red River's He's concerned that students thought it was a high. Princess Street campus says she struggling with addictions will little strange," he "I would say it heard about salvia through a have problems saying no to says. PHOTO I JUSTEN VOGT lasts for about 15 friend but has never tried it. drugs advertised in washrooms He says he Students noticed ads for drugs in November. minutes. You feel "I heard it is legal and you can get on campus. was taken aback altered for about an it off the Internet and stuff and I "Students should notify secu- when he saw the hour and then after heard it really messes you up," rity if any material is suspicious, ads, which state that it peaks fast," he says. says Cudmore. illegal or questionable in nature," for $50 a gram users "It was used by ancient The Internet is home to many says Mariani. can purchase the It looked like someone had Mexicans to touch God websites that describe how to The Winnipeg Police Drug unit ready to use, potent, laid them out as a form of or whatever. grow, use and sell the herbal and Health Canada are monitor- psychotropic halluci- "From the first time I drug. ing salvia divinorum, a species of nogen. According to advertising. I thought it was recall, you would want Sagewisdom.org claims salvia the sage family that is known on dictionary.com, psy- a little strange. to put yourself down divinorum is the "only vision- the street as "divine" or "diviner's chotropic hallucino- on a piece of furniture. inducing species" of the sage sage." The advertisements were gens have an altering The walls start waving plant that was originally "used in left on urinals and toilets with a effect on perception, -RICK LAWLER at you — it reminds me religious and healing ceremonies name and number to call. emotion or behavior. of LSD (Lysergic Acid by the Mazatec Indians" who "The drug is not named in "But what made me about it — they seem to have a Diethylamide)." live in the Mexican province of any scheduled drug list (on the wonder was what is this stuff in grip on everything else," says Health Canada spokesperson Oaxaca. Controlled Drug Substances Act), the advertisement and why isn't Lawler. Catherine Saunders says it is but we are taking it to the chem- it regulated? If it is, then why Chris, a dealer who listed his aware of salvia divinorum and ist. It is an unknown resource," is someone not doing anything number on the card, claims the is monitoring the "drug of con-

Dean investigates technical communications SA letter asks for answers to student concerns

BY SHANNON MARTIN this point it didn't seem right to Since the letter was written, available to students, students The SA intends to follow up talk to students directly," says three first-year students have left even have my home phone with the college, says Loewen. college dean is investigat- MacDonald. "The issues are the program. The second-year number." "In my mind, the students ing the technical commu- being discussed and students class has dwindled from 14 origi- Campbell says students were aren't happy with the course... Anications program after will get feedback." nal students to eight students. anxious earlier this year about people aren't getting jobs, or the one third of its first-year students Loewen says he started receiv- The technical communica- the availability of jobs after course isn't being taught prop- complained to the Students' ing complaints at the end graduation erly, or the course isn't worth Association. of September. 4 4, "I don't know how it anything at all," says Loewen. SA vice president Craig "The percentage of These individuals have sought my help in started this fall. There "My hope is to see a full review Loewen gave six anonymous complaints is uncom- was a high level of of the program, based on the statements from students, out mon...They've (stu- hearing their concerns with a course that anxiety of jobs," says amount of student complaints." of a class of 17, in a letter dated dents) gone to class reps, has left them disheartened and Campbell. But as far Former first-year student Dan Nov. 1. Complaints included con- but they feel nothing a she knows "seven Roberts says he agrees that a cerns about a low employment has been done at that apprehensive about their education. out of seven graduates review should be done. rate after graduation, unsatisfac- level," says Loewen. "It's (from last year) are "I think that would be para- tory course material, and course been very frustrating for 11 working." mount," he says. redundancy. students because com- -CRAIG LOEWEN Graduate and last He dropped out of the pro- "Most issues have been plaints are heard and year's class president gram in November because of brought up (in the past)," says nothing is being done." tions program, which is a rela- Jim Martin says he frustration in the course, relating Don MacDonald, dean of trans- The students approached tively new course, is a two-year helped launch a formal student to course content. Roberts lost portation, aviation and manu- Loewen to act as a middle man, co-operative where students complaint to the department part of his tuition money due to facturing, who received the let- he says. write manuals, brochures and head last year. He says nothing his decision. ter. "We're trying to improve." "These individuals have other documents for various was done. "I don't get my money back. MacDonald, who hasn't con- sought my help in hearing their industries, according to the col- "We asked for clarification of There's no real recourse, and tacted the SA with a response, concerns with a course that lege web site. material or assignments on a I'd like to get reimbursed for says the department has reviewed has left them disheartened and Technical communications daily basis and were routinely textbooks and everything," says the program annually since it apprehensive about their educa- lead instructor Alexa Campbell told that the confusion and lack Roberts, who has an honours started three years ago. He says tion," wrote Loewen in the open- says she is surprised to learn of direction were a normal part degree in geography from the he didn't contact students about ing of the three-page letter. about the students' complaints. of the life of a technical writer," University of Winnipeg. their concerns because the state- "Almost all the students spoke "I'm surprised to hear stu- says Martin. "We got the distinct "There's got to be account- ments are anonymous. about dropping out of the course, dents wouldn't come to us," says impression that these remarks ability. I expected more from the "I will go in and talk to the as well as noting unprofessional Campbell, in the program office. were a cover up for a lack of prep- college." students in a class situation. At behavior by certain instructors." "We do everything we can to be aration and course planning." ADVERTISMENT

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THE PROJECTOR I DECEMBER 6, 2004 n e s 5 RRC cafeteria wants more business

BY JOSIAH THIESSEN Aramark to provide food services Hildebrandt says she got lots of costs $5 plus tax. Olson says food Kelly Korsunsky, a first-year on the Princess Street campus, good ideas from the survey. She prices are on par with those at technical communications stu- he cafeteria that opened but Aramark the Notre Dame dent gets breakfast at the cafete- this fall at the Princess follows the campus. ria almost every day. He says the T Street campus hopes the college's sug- A meal at servers already know him. weather will help it gain some gestions. I think we'll ask the Buffalo "I went to Tim Hortons every momentum after a slow start to Lately the caf- Cafeteria costs day for over a month and business. eteria's been people point blank, $5.26. ordered the same thing and they "Overall from a sales perspec- making some Aramark still didn't recognize me," he said. tive things are a little slow... changes. is in charge Now he eats at the cafeteria. "The maybe because of the good "We're not 'what do you want?' of the food food's fairly good for its price," he weather we've had in October going to sit services at says. and November," said Rob Olson, status quo and then go from the Notre Genevive, also a first-year stu- director of auxiliary services for with what we Dame and dent, says the cafeteria needs to Red River College. Olson expects have," says there. Princess Street improve its soup and lower its the colder weather will encour- Olson. -LORNE HILDEBRANDT Campuses, prices. She would rather eat next age more students to eat at the The cafete- as well as the door at Foon Hai, the Chinese cafeteria instead of going out. ria now offers Tim Horton's restaurant on the corner of There have been some stu- breakfast starting at 7:30 a.m.. wants to put out another one to at Princess Street. They provide William and Adelaide. dent complaints about high Hildebrandt says they plan to find out more. food services to businesses, "I had a great stir-fry with prices, food selection and slow replace the TCBY yoghurt stand, "I think we'll ask people point schools, and sports facilities all shrimp and asparagus for $5.95 service at the sub sandwich bar, which isn't very popular, with a blank, 'what do you want?' and over the world. In 2003 Aramark there," she says. "There are a lot but cafeteria supervisor Lorne tossed salad bar. then go from there," she says. made $9.4 billion in sales with of places around here that have Hildebrandt says she's seen sales The cafeteria just finished add- The hot lunch entrées are a net income of $301.1 million, cheaper prices and seem to be growing daily. ing up student responses from a the best selling item, says a 13% increase from the year better quality" Red River College hired survey it's been circulating. Hildebrandt. Lasagna with a before. Caesar salad and garlic toast Program helps inner city youth

BY DAVE DICKIE and Skills Development Canada oversight, funding was immedi- gram teaches multiple barrier students from the inner city, as (HRSDC), but we were told ately pulled. youth aged 18-29 an array of dif- well as international students. program offered at Red that HRSDC doesn't fund train- "The problem is, is ferent skills, from interpersonal "I was studying education River College's Princess ing programs, so the prov- that there isn't any other skills and non-violent crisis back home, and a friend Astreet campus that pre- ince was left holding the bag. programs like this, so it prevention to life skills and psy- of mine told me about the pares youth to work with inner Essentially, we had slipped doesn't fit in anywhere, and it's chology. program. So it worked city kids is back on track after an through the (HRSDC) cracks the harder for HRSDC to recognize Shannon Cudmore, a student out well for me. I feel very almost three month delay. last three years." it," Coulter said. in the program who hadn't at home in this course, The youth recreation When HRSDC realized their The 38 week certificate pro- warmed to the idea of university plus the program is free," Edward activity worker program, life, had only good things to say Santos said. funded by the province of about the program. "I want to get into nursing, and Manitoba, working in con- 44 "It's like a family I can put these credits towards junction the Winnipeg atmosphere. Like school, work doing that," Joanne Javier said. Boys and Girls Club, was in It's like a family and therapy all at once," she said. Steven Raven, one of danger of, not starting its fourth "I didn't know what to expect, many aboriginal students in year. atmosphere. Like school, work but the whole group is very sup- the program, has the com- The program's instructor Kerry portive, and the instructors are munity's children in mind. Coulter said, "The program and therapy all at once. really accommodating. They "I just want to work with kids." used to be funded by both the care about how you're feeling." province and Human Resources 11 The program aims to attract -SHANNON CUDMORE USB proves a smarter choice

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Low-carb beer fails test Eat healthy on low budget

BY KRISTA SIMONSON in charge of driving for the night. BY TERESA MURRAY grain or enriched products such as Having completed four controlled, rolled oats and bran cereals are wise is a month to Christmas break, regulated beer consumption sessions healthy diet is important for stu- alternatives to flavored cereals which and students' thoughts fall with a focus group, this is obviously dents, but with a limited budget are more expensive and full of sugar. T to drinking, and dancing, a dangerous misunderstanding. Low- ome students are forced to be Pauls also suggests selecting darker and how they'll get through it all... carb beer gets you drunk, although creative and savvy when shopping for colored fruits and vegetables as they Worried about surviving your two at a slightly slower rate. Jenna Khan, groceries. have more nutrition in them. She weeks of festive partying? Thinking said after five beers, "It's not the same Kendra Pauls, registered dietitian at advises students to buy frozen produce low-carb beer might be your saving as regular beer, but I'm drunker than St. Boniface Hospital offers hope to and fresh fruits and vegetables that are grace? my expectations." students on a budget. in season as they are less expensive. Think again. Both Molson and Labatt allege on "Eating on campus might be expen- Due to the high price of chicken and A plethora of low-carb beers have their websites that taste is not com- sive but healthy eating doesn't have to prime cuts of beef Dalgliesh sticks to hit the market in the last year, thanks promised in theft low-carb beers. be." ground beef, tofu and tuna. to the resurgence of the Atkins Diet Blind taste-testing results with focus Pauls suggests that students plan a "If you're broke and hungry eat and the low-carb craze. In Canada group were in stark opposition to these alone, claims. All four major participants brewer- quickly ies have identified Eating on campus launched the low- low-carb carb beers, might be expensive products calling them in the last gassy, fizzy, but healthy eating year group bland, and of Red River watery. doesn't have to be. students Dave recently Dickie, said, 51 took it "It's a tepid, -KENDRA PAULS upon them- putrid beer selves to find out the real deal about best FILE PHOTOused for these beers. Chinese budget before going shopping. pasta, frozen veggies and ground beef." The study narrowed its focus water torture." "Start out by planning your menu for He also adds that, "If this routine gets on Canada's main beer suppliers: Not only is low-carb beer bad for the week. Make a list so that you know boring substitute the ground beef with Molson and Labatt. Traditional beers your taste buds, it's bad for your wal- which ingredients you need to have on tuna or tofu." weigh in at about 140 calories and 13 let. These low-carb beers only come hand." The most important meal of the day grams of carbohydrates. Molson Ultra in six-packs. By the time you buy four, Dave Dalgliesh, information sys- is breakfast, says Pauls, because several has only 97 calories and 2.5 grams of you've spent over $40, as compared to tems technology student at Red River studies have shown that it improves carbs. Labatt Sterling is 88 calories $35 for a case of traditional lager. College, says that his shopping list is memory. with the same 2.5 grams of carbs. The liver angst is subsiding, the always the same. With rent and bills to Pauls' final piece of advice is to keep Surveys and informal discussions research is done. If your carb con- cover he has a limited grocery budget to outer walls of the grocery store. showed that students assume low- sumption is really so important to and can't afford to stray from his cost "This is where you will find your four carb beer is absorbed more slowly you, take this advice: drink real beer effective grocery list. Dalgliesh's list food groups, choose generic brands than traditional beer, and that its every other day. consists mainly of fruits and vegetables, as they are less expensive and keep in effects would not be as obvious. all of which are always in season. mind the store puts the most expensive Some suggested that low-carb beer Another piece of advice Pauls recom- brands at eye level so look at the upper could be a safe alternative for those mends is to follow Canada's Food Guide and lower shelves for deals." to Health Living. According to Pauls, trying whole Got a story idea? CASH$$ Email: [email protected] Need Cash? Premiere Financial offers 30% off all loans for students and staff of Red River College. Money within the hour! Government starts fall session Call 480-3333 today! Speech didn't touch on tuition freeze

BY ROBERT KOTYK speech since assuming power to post-secondary education, of the province's universities tinuing the tuition freeze and in 1999. so there was a lot of touting -- the University of Manitoba, increasing core funding to the anitoba's NDP govern- But student politicians increased enrolment, the new University of Winnipeg and institutions." ment began its fall leg- expressed disappointment Red River (College) campus," Brandon University -- requested Turner commended the gov- M islative session Nov. 22 the speech did not clarify the he said. "We did not see any hefty grant increases from the ernment's support of the new with a throne speech touting tax government's position on the real commitments or any prom- government. Red River College campus in cuts and health initiatives, but province's tuition freeze. ises in regards to post-secondary Becky Turner, vice-president downtown Winnipeg. no hint of whether the tuition Rob Matriott, spokesperson education." of the Red River College student "The government played a freeze would be lifted. for the University of Manitoba Currently, tuition fees are union, also said the province huge part in getting that campus The New Democrats student union, said the speech's frozen at their 1999 levels, but should act now to further help up and running," she said. "So announced a 33 per cent prop- focus in terms of post-secondary so far, the government has been students. now it's time for the provincial erty tax cut for farmland educa- education was on policies that tight-lipped about whether the "I was excited to see that this government to shift their focus tion, increased funding for police had already been announced. freeze will continue next year. government wants to make edu- to helping students and helping and a province-wide diabetes "There was a lot of talk about In October, when Manitoba cation a priority," she said. "But I students that are attending that prevention strategy. the commitment that the Doer universities presented their really hope that this government campus." It was the eighth time the gov- government has made over the budgets to the Council on Post- can put their money where their CUP Central Bureau Chief ernment has delivered a throne past number of years in regards Secondary Education, all three mouth is when it comes to con- ADVERTISM ENT

Giving Green: Ideas for a Sustainable Holiday

When I first started holiday shopping with the idea of `sustainability' in mind, I thought that I was adding a new challenge to an already formidable task. Finding parking, fighting the crowds, trying to find that 'perfect' gift, trying to stay under budget and trying to get it all done in time were certainly challenges enough! As I discovered however, giving green. can mean a less-expensive, less-stressful experience... and so far all of my friends and family have loved their unique and personal 'earth-friendly' gifts.

The Homemade Gift If it's the thought that counts, something homemade will almost always be more special than a store-bought gift. So what stops us from making all of our gifts? My two main excuses for not trying this before were: 1) I don't have the time to make something myself. 2) I'm not nearly creative or talented enough to make something nice! As it turned out, both of these proved to be false. Most of the following gift ideas take less time to create than an afternoon spent at the mall, and are not very high on the skill- demand side either! - Recipe Book: Gather favourite recipes from your friends and family, and arrange them together into a recipe book. By adding photos and a line or two about eacliperson, you can make the book even more personal. Once you've compiled the sheets, coil-binding costs only about $1 per book. - Edibles: Baking will always be appreciated, especially if it contains chocolate! As any time-stretched student will tell you, frozen meals are always a welcome convenience. A tray of lasagne, a pot of stew or your favourite casserole will definitely be received with thanks. - Plant Cuttings: Cuttings from plants that you have around your home make for a great personal gift. Try finding unique containers at second-hand stores (teapots, mugs, bowls) to use as planters. - Mixed Tapes/CDs: Who doesn't love receiving new music? Selecting each song with the recipient in mind creates a very personal gift, one that will offer many hours of enjoyment.

The Used Gift Giving an item an extra-life helps reduce our dependence on new resources, and as any antique-hunter can tell you, browsing through vintage shops and goodwill stores looking for treasures can be a lot of fun! - Books: Winnipeg has a great variety of used bookstores...in them you can find new releases at a fraction of the cost, or old, hard-cover versions of favourite classics and children's tales. - Clothing: Comfy sweaters, flashy silk scarves, or a funky hat or bag... with a bit of effort, you're bound to find a new favourite. - Jewellery: Incredible amounts of energy (and toxic chemicals) are used in the extraction of gold, diamonds and other minerals to make new jewellery. Many second-hand and antique stores have a great selection 'of vintage jewellery, and at great prices too!

The Non-Material Gift Giving a gift of service requires the use of little or no natural resources. Whether you buy a gift certificate from a professional, or give a coupon offering your own time, it will be a welcomed treat. - Services: Massage, snow shoveling/lawn care, an evening of childcare or a dog walk. - Tickets to a concert, the theatre or a movie. - Skill-sharing/Professional Lessons: Music, cooking, languages, pottery, knitting, sewing, yoga, home-repair or car maintenance.

The Gift of Charity What to get for the person who has everything? Make a donation to an organization that is important to that person, and write a note in a card'explaining your action. Here are a few worthwhile groups, for a list of other Canadian Non-Profit organizations, visit www.charityvillage.com - Winnipeg Harvest: In Safeway stores throughout Winnipeg you can find packaged mini-hampers , available for purchase Simply purchase the bag of food, and drop it in the donation box. - Heifer International: A well established organization, Heifer has an online 'gift animal' catalogue at www.heifer.org which lets you donate an animal of your choice to a family in a developing country. These gifts help to put the family on the road to self-reliance - David Suzuki Foundation: This Canadian organization works through science and education to protect the environment. A great gift for any nature lover! Find them online at www.davidsuzuki.org

The Waste Reducing Gift Consider giving a gift that will keep on giving... to the environment! Check out some of these items which will save energy, resources and money. Your friends and the environment will thank you. - Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs): These lightbulbs are now available at almost all hardware stores, and will fit into any standard lightbulb fixture. They use only 25% of the energy of a standard incandescent lightbulb, and they last ten times as long! - Low-Flow Showerheads: Older showerheads can use as much as three times the amount of water as newer, high-efficiency versions. - Programmable Thermostats: These automatically adjust the temperature in the home for day and night levels. More than 60% of the energy used in Canadian homes is for heating! - Reusable Grocery Bags: These heavy-duty cloth bags cost only a few dollars, and save the waste of a plastic bag every time that they are used.

The Ecological/Ethical Gift Here are a few final things to consider for the other items on your gift list. Look for items that have recycled content. - Choose items that are produced locally. By choosing to buy locally you reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted during transportation of the product, and you support your local economy. Look for organic items. When you choose organic, you help to reduce the negative costs to the environment from artificial fertilizers and pesticides, as well as the potential negative health effects to the grower and consumer of the product. Buy items which bear the 'FairTrade' logo. This logo guarantees that the artisans and farmers who produced the product have been paid a fair and living wage.

Ten Thousand Villages 134 Plaza Drive963 Henderson Highway A non-profit group which sells fair-trade products from around the world. They offer an amazing variety of items, including fair-trade coffee, chocolate and tea, fair-trade rugs, linens, pottery, musical instruments, artwork and crafts. Humboldt's Legacy 887 Westminster Avenue For over 20 years, this store has been providing alternative products for sustainable living. Clothing made from organic fibres, natural soaps, candles and cleaning supplies, and books and magazines on sustainability are just a few of the things that you can find here. Neechi Foods Co-op 325 Dufferin Street An aboriginal worker cooperative, this grocery store sells Manitoba wild rice and wild blueberry jam, homemade bannock and fruit pies, and locally handcrafted aboriginal products. The Healthy Home Store 827 Dakota Street One of the only stores of its kind in Canada, this company is dedicated to providing alternative building and renovating products obtained from sustainable, natural and recycled resources. For more information visit www.ecoelements.ca

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Season holidays cross cultures Spare a shoe box?

BY KALEIGH ALLISON based on Christian religious beliefs, The dates of the celebrations he has no problem with other cel- change every year, because the BY SHAWNA SKRUDLAND ball caps, socks, jewelry ien everyone is fran- ebrations. Jewish holidays follow a different sets, hair clips, and small ic about last minute "I think they're great. Mainly calendar. This year, Hanukkah will Operation Christmas picture books. Items which Christmas shopping, what we do, as people, to celebrate be celebrated from sundown on Wt Child will be collecting are specifically asked not James Hes isn't worried. The busi- Christmas is 99 per cent tradition. Dec. 7 through sundown on Dec. shoe boxes to be delivered to be included are food ness administration student at the As long as the real meaning of 15. to vulnerable and needy items other than hard Notre Dame Campus moved to Christmas is intact, it doesn't mat- A candle on the menorah is lit children across the world. candy, used items because Canada from China in 1990, and ter to me," Scott said, adding that each night commemorating the The organization has set of restrictions at borders never adopted the celebration of the holiday has been too material- miracle that occurred 23 centu- its goal for this Christmas to certain countries, and Christmas. ized. ries ago, when oil that was only at 7 million shoe box gifts anything that could melt "I have no feelings for Christmas. Pierce Cairns celebrates both enough to burn for one night dur- internationally. or freeze, leak, break, scare It's just like another day for me," he ing a rededication ceremony, lasted Ukrainian Christmas and what he Karen Brglez, a student or harm the recipient. A said. "I think Christmas is great, calls Christmas, because his moth- eight days. at Providence College, has note to the child may also but I don't feel any of the spirit er is Ukrainian and his father is not. There are a number of other cel- been creating boxes since be included and a photo of within myself." Cairns is a student at the University ebrations that take place around she moved to Winnipeg in yourself and/or your family. Although Hes and his family do of Winnipeg, and is working Christmas. Kwanzaa is a celebra- 2001. She says Operation According to Brglez, these not celebrate Dec. 25 in the con- towards his bachelor of science tion of African heritage that lasts Christmas Child is her notes are cherished. ventional way, they use the day to honours degree in biochemistry. from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1. favourite fundraiser to "Our friend was able to visit family. February's Chinese On Ukrainian Christmas Eve, Dia de los Reyes, or Three Kings volunteer for every year. get on the volunteer list to New Year is their holiday most like celebrated on Dec. 25, the Cairns Day, is a traditional Hispanic Her father, Brian Brglez is take the shoe boxes over- the exchange of gifts that is gener- family gets together at their Baba's Christian holiday celebrated on the Pastor at the Alliance seas. She always stressed ally done on Christmas Day. (grandmother's) house. They eat a Jan. 6. Children put decorated Church in Winnipeg. The to us after she returned the "We receive money in red enve- traditional Ukrainian meal, which boxes filled with grass for the Brglez family annually vol- importance of those notes. I lopes and maybe have a big supper usually includes perogies, cabbage king's camels under their beds the unteers the Alliance Church always include a letter now with family. It's a Chinese tradi- rolls, bread, mushrooms, fish, and night before, and wake up to find as a drop off center for the with a few pictures." tion." cheese rolls. They exchange gifts, the grass eaten, and gifts left in its shoe boxes as well as creat- Operation Christmas Scott Barkman's family is the but the meal is the main focus. place. ing their own shoe boxes. Child operates under the opposite of the Hes. Berkman is "Beyond that, we don't do a Eid al-Fitr, an Islamic holiday, Creating a shoe box is ministry Samaritan's Purse. a computer analyst/programmer whole lot. The meal is the big is a celebration of month-long easy to do. The first thing The ministry is a global student at the Princess Campus, thing," Cairns said. fasting, which is one of the funda- needed is an empty shoe Christian organization that and is firm in his beliefs. "Usually on high holidays, we mental obligations in the religion box which does not have serves the Church world- The Barkmans celebrations go to the synagogue and end up of Islam. This year it took place on to be wrapped. If it is going wide. This organization is begin on Dec. 1. They put up the either hosting a dinner ourselves Nov. 14 and 15. Diwali is one of the to be wrapped the lid must set up in Canada as well Christmas tree and decorate it with for friends and family, or going to a most important Hindu holidays. It be done separately. The as in Germany, Ireland, ornaments and other things that friend's house where they're doing symbolizes the victory of light over items to fill the box can be Australia, Netherlands, the have a personal meaning. Later something similar," said Daniel dark. It traditionally marks the toys, school supplies and UK, and the USA. beginning of the New Year, and was in the month they attend a candle- Kives who celebrates Hanukkah. hygiene items. light service at their church where celebrated on Nov. 12. The Kives' dinner typically has Other accepted items they sing songs and listen to their This time of year truly is a holiday roast beef, brisket, matza ball are hard candy, sunglasses, Pastor's sermon. soup, and koogle, which is a baked season. Although Barkman's Christmas is noodle pudding.

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United Way warms kids

BY VALERIE KOWALSKI from the Salt Lake City Olympics Koats for Kids, and has since Sylvia Kuzyk, weather anchor locations. The items are then line. become a volunteer. at CKY News, says so many delivered by UPS and sorted at he United Way wants "This program is a beautiful "It's easy to become a volun- people take basic necessities for the Koats for Kids warehouse. If to keep kids warm this illustration of ... together granted, including winter the program receives items that T winter. That's why the we can accomplish amaz- coats. are inappropriate for children not-for-profit organization has ing things," says Linda "A warm coat can be It's easy to become a volun- they will forward the goods on to launched its annual Koats for Brazier, director of com- such a wonderful thing. other organizations such as the Kids campaign. munity investment at the teer. When I started, they said Seeing the children in Main Street Project. The United Way, along with United Way. The program need of such things has The program receives orders its sponsors Perth's Services will make Winnipeg a that I lightened up the place brought me close to on a daily basis and can always Ltd., United Parcel Service, the warmer place for up to because I'm a funny person. tears. I'm really proud to use extra help. Gently used mit- Winnipeg Sun, CTV, 1290 CFRW, 5,000 children this year, be a part of the program," tens, toques and scarves are also and the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic predicts Brazier. 1, says Kuzyk, who became welcome donations. Anyone Service have distributed more For mother-of-five —BEVERLY MAWAKEESIC involved with Koats for interested in volunteering for the than 80,000 gently used coats Beverly Mawakeesic, her Kids through CKY. program should contact Eleanor teer. When I started, they said to Winnipeg children over the children will need the winter Items can be dropped off at Marsh at 586-5628. that I lightened up the place past 16 years. This year, Roots coats from the program this year. any Winnipeg Fire Paramedic because I'm a funny person," has donated toques and mittens This is the first time she's used Service station and at all Perth's says Mawakeesic.

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What do you call a Colorado Spruce tree decorated with lights? A Thachuk looks forward to retirement Christmas tree or a holiday tree? Jacqie Thachuk retired from her position as Red River College President after six years of service. Her mark in the This year, organizers at the Forks decided to call their tree a holiday tree in order to recognize and celebrate all religions. school was working to rid the stigma of a once-called 'com munity' college. The Projector asks: "What's in a name? Would that which we call a Christmas tree by any other word smell as sweet?" Opening speeches at Princess Street campus 'a waste': Mertins Candidates in the Red River College Students' Association elections gave their opening speeches to a virtually empty food court at the Heidi Manthei Princess Street Campus earlier this month, causing organizers to Diploma nursing accelerated 1st year question what went wrong. "I think it's political correctness gone overboard. A Christmas tree is a Christmas tree. Fifteen minutes of fame for RRC student It's been that way for hundreds of years. Other Red River College creative communications student Jean-Marc people have other things in their faiths that they Prevost not only had the opportunity to try out for Canadian Idol, celebrate and that's great." but also met host Ben Mulroney. He had the chance to sing on eTalk Daily. Pam Byman Swollen Members rock RRC Business administration On Sept. 13, 2004, apprciximately 310 eager fans attended an intimate "I think it's a good idea. Not everyone is high-energy concert performed by Canada's own hip-hop sensation Christian and this way everyone can appreciate Swollen Members at the Red River Notre Dame campus. the tree and not be offended."

Notre Dame students face parking fee hike Parking fees will jump by 37.5 per cent at the Notre Dame campus and Rob Sorokowski passes are now only valid for eight months, two less than the previous Technical communications year. Passes will cost $353 a school year or $44 a month as compared to "It doesn't really matter. I celebrate Ukrainian last years prices of $320 for 10 months or $32 a month. Christmas so tradition is not to have a Christmas tree. It's more of a religious holiday and it's about Princess Street's final phase to open fall 2004 spending time with your family." The third and final phase of Red River College's multi-million dollar Princess Street Campus is on schedule to open to all students, staff and visitors this fall. Corry Arnason Solar car project takes off Diploma nursing accelerated 2nd year Mechanical engineering students from Red River College are preparing "I think that it's wonderful that they're calling it to travel distances of over 4,000 kilometers in their homemade solar a holiday tree because they're acknowledging all powered car. The car will race from Austin, Texas through Winnipeg and the different cultures in the city." on to the finish line in Calgary in July of 2005.

MLCC squashes all you can drink events Red River College students will no longer be able to save a buck while Ryan McMorris partying. All you can drink bar events are no longer, thanks to the new Business administration laptop MLCC liquor regulations recently set in place. "I believe it's a little ridiculous that they don't call it a Christmas tree. It's Christmas. What Giant millipede found other holiday has a tree?" A giant West-African millipede named Timmy was found in the bottom of a speaker during a television production class. The millipede had been left in the studio after the filming of a horror movie.

Downtown student violently accosted David Gasiorek A Red River College student is recovering after a violent assault outside Joint baccalaureate nursing program the campus during the week of Sept. 20. She was struck three times in "Everybody has their own religious rituals any- the face by a man on the way to her bus stop. ways so I think it should just stay as a Christmas tree." VA1417. k tts's:ALTX, s' ADVERTISMENT

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THE PROJECTOR I DECEMBER 6, 2004 opinions 11 Back Stressless exam season? It takes some preparation

BY JULIE FOLK tired you are while studying, something that relaxes you and way more work than the less quality work you get or you enjoy. This includes everyone else. Here's a tip ith midterms and done. spending time with your to those people: realize that assignments pil- Exercising and eating friends, maybe taking a everyone is in the same situ- Wing up and exams right are not only good for night and going out to have ation, working equally as only weeks away, stress is your general health, but some fun. Then you may hard. Your professors have beginning to mount for all they also help you relax and not dread going back to not all gotten together in a university students. But concentrate, relieving some the books as much. Never secret plot against you. who cares, these are the fun stress. Even a 15-minute study for more than two or Remember, this is univer- KYLE BAKX times -- the reasons why we sity and you came here for COLUMNIST come to school -- right? a reason -- to get a degree. Okay, so maybe not. But Plan to take breaks. Organize That degree takes work. 4 ver since the inaugural plans there are ways to deal with your time, and schedule So work hard, finish your of having a new arena down- the stress, and to make exams and do the best you F town, I have been a critic. things go a little easier breaks doing something that can. Keep in mind once Living south of the city and then and keep you from going relaxes you or you enjoy. they're done, Christmas is in the south end, having an arena insane. right around the corner, in the outskirts of the city would The piece of advice I think along with a few wonder- have been ideal. For a few reasons is important is to start early. ful weeks of holidays. Good walk or run can re-energize I have since changed my stance on I know it seems like there is three hours straight; your luck to all on your studying you, helping you to get back the downtown arena. so much time until exams brain can't handle it. Work a -- which will hopefully be to the books. The main reason is downtown and that they're weeks away, few hours, take a break and stress-free -- and exams. Many students try to revitalization. Along with me, thou- but they will creep up much reward yourself for doing The Carillon (University sands of other Winnipeggers have sooner than you expect. So relieve their stress through well. It will give you some- of Regina) gone downtown and spent money. take a little time here and alcohol or caffeine. This is thing to look forward to. There I was on the opening night of there to start preparing not recommended; any- Study groups are ben- the $133 5 million state-of-the-art and you won't be so over- thing that brings you up eficial for two reasons: facility, walking to the arena from whelmed when exams come usually brings you down you may come up with the Princess Street campus. -- because how much good soon after. Alcohol will new ideas or learn things The chill sent through my body does cramming really do? especially ruin your focus. you didn't know before, or was from seeing the four Hollywood Equally important is to Binge drinking may relieve perhaps more importantly, movie premiere lights because the take care of yourself. So your stress for that night, you'll be able to spend time warm weather sure wasn't doing many students come down but the next morning your with others in the same it. The spotlights pierced through with colds or a sickness headache is not going to amount of misery. Winnipeg's night sky and shone during exam time, because help you while studying. At this time, it seems like bright on the neighbouring retail they forget about their Plan to take breaks. every student I talk to feels outlets. health. Getting enough Organize your time, and like they have the hardest Whether shopping, eating or sleep is essential. The more schedule breaks doing exams, the most evil profs catching a drink with friends, some people would rather go to shows early to snatch up good parking spots or stay late to avoid traffic. When the Manitoba Hydro office tower is erected on Portage Avenue and the new Millennium Library Beware of online auctions on Graham Avenue is finished, thousands more people could be lured into the city's core, furthering E-Addictions drain wallet revitalization. Another reason why I have BY DAVE CLARK once thought of selling such there are very few symp- contact you will get is when changed my opinion about the soul, however, it had already toms, compared to most the courier drops off your arena is because of all the different o you often find been tainted. To end the addictions. I think I may parcels. I think I would shows now coming to Winnipeg. yourself on your madness I looked for help. have come down with a rather have a conversation With some luck and persuasion, I D laptop in class, Only finding websites for little bit of the carpal-tun- with a bag of rusty nails just was at the arena three times in the or on one of the school's people who engage in too nel syndrome, but that's waiting to give you tetanus first two weeks after its opening. many computers searching much cyber-sex, I thought a far cry from track marks than the local courier. Besides opening night, I saw the Hip EBay for an amazing deal? I was doomed. down your arms. I've never So, just be forewarned. and I also saw my friend go on stage Or possibly sitting at home Random novelties, like to help assist David Copperfield in all Friday night, waiting for mullet wax or a bag of Paris one of his dramatic illusions. the auction for the lot of Bat This addiction is Hilton's pubic hair, com- Parking has not been much of a Boy comics to close, making bined with shipping costs, problem as it was perceived by the sure nobody outbids you? really the easiest to and customs fees, will do public to be and the post-event Chances are you have an start, making it very nothing for you but make traffic has actually been better than online auction addiction! you want more. at the old arena. As opposed to one Now I know what you are dangerous. When you are shaking in large parking lot, having multiple thinking: there is no way the corner in the fetal posi- smaller lots and having more peo- you really have an addic- tion with an empty wallet, ple take the bus has helped traffic tion, unless of course you There was no doubt my awoken in a haze, only to you will have nowhere to after events. are bidding on large quanti- addiction was worse than realize I had bid on things turn. Not even your auto- Those who have complained ties of crack cocaine. Wrong. talking about how cyber- that would make all my graphed picture of the Fonz about concession prices (i.e. $5- I have seen the dark side; I hard your cyber-penis was. friends lose respect for me, or your GI Joe collection can 7.50 for a beer), should not criticize know it exists. I am even It wasn't my cyber-bank then tried to dispose of the help you now because prices at the Air Canada watching my friends slowly account that was being evidence in the trunk of my Intercamp Centre in Toronto (over $9 for a cross the line into a hellish drained. It wasn't my cyber- car, then drove it into the (Grant MacEwan College) beer) are much higher. world of maximum bids boss that almost fired me nearest river. The only thing I am still critical of and inflated shipping costs. from my cyber-job. This This addiction is really is the arena's nickname, The Phone And really there is nothing was real. the easiest to start, making Booth. We have to think of some- you can do. As long as they Now I didn't go as far as to it very dangerous. You don't thing better than that. have a credit card, they will rob a liquor store or beat up need to be of legal age, you spend. a homeless person to feed don't need a consenting I, myself, have been my addiction. 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am Raimi deserves the best director Oscar in February for S Spiderman 2. Yeah, yeah, I'll admit this is the opinion of a total fan boy but you'll take it seriously because it's in the paper (and you know I'm right anyway). The scruffy visionary in a black suit - homage to Alfred Hitchcock - turned out a sequel that exceeded all expectations. It was a flawless gem from beginning to end. It gets better every time I see it - twice in theatres, and twice on DVD. The Oscar for outstanding direc- tion should go to the man who best controls every aspect of production - and from day one Raimi did that for Spiderman 2. Actual direction is a part of it too, obviously - and Raimi is a was weeks before And he whistled, and shouted, and His casting of Sandler tries to prove master of his craft. His rapid cuts Christmas, when all called them by name: Punch Drunk Love wasn't flukey, and in-your-face action sequences through the Peg, "Now, Julia! Now, Clooney! Now Matt As a patriarch who shares his home are a trademark dating back to his Not(l a theatrej was resting, for a ticket Damon and Casey Affleck! with a Mexican beauty. Evil Dead films. Few directors can you'd have to beg. On, Cheadle! On Catherine! On, engage an audience with direction Bernie Mac! The lives of a thousand refugees he alone like Raimi can. Scorsese's last nerve was hung on the To the top of the box office! To the top held in his grace, The Spiderman franchise is 17th with the Aviator, of the world! And the smoke of war encircled them Raimi. Why should Peter Jackson's In hopes that the elusive St. Oscar Now dash away, dash away, dash giving chase. film win 11 Oscars to cap his tril- would soon be there. away all!" Don Cheadle and the Hotel Rwanda ogy and the Spiderman franchise His boy wonder Leo was nestled all held strong despite suffering and (which has made nearly $2 billion snug in the lead, As dry desert that before the blinding demise, world wide) not even be mentioned While the legend of Howard Hughes sands fly, That shocks, and sickens, like a bowl and probably won't be (that's right danced in his head. When the Phoenix meets with an full of flies. I'm putting Spiderman in the same obstacle, attempt to the sky. league as Lord of the Rings)? And Wesley Snipes with his Blade, and So into the cockpit on the 22nd Dennis He was chubby and plump, a right I mean, Raimi took admirable Jessica Biel in her leather, Quaid and his team would hurry, jolly boy from Philly, risks too. Who else would film Had just saved beloved Earth from With quickly dwindling food and And he bellowed a laugh with the that awkward scene in the eleva- bloodsuckers, for the better. water, and Giovanni Ribisi's fury. Cosby kids, in spite of being silly. tor with Hal Sparks, or use the When out again from the dead on the A wink of his eye and a loud "Hey hey song Raindrops Keep Falling On tenth there arose such a clatter, And then, in a screeching, on that hey!" My Head in today's action movies, The night-stalkers sprang to resurrect same day he heard in the next room Fat Albert soon made known he was without looking ridiculous? It was Dracula and he's much madder. The sketching and prodding of De coming Christmas Day. remarkable to see. Niro's polygraphic doom. So, Martin Scorsese will have to Out of his mind Jinl Carrey flew like As Ben Stiller drew in his head, and He spoke a harsh word on that 17th, muster up another fake smile at a flash, was turning around, and went straight from his work, this year's awards. Beautiful people Whipped out the costumes on that Standing there were the Fockers, Kinsey filled all minds with sex, and won't be enough for Mike Nichols. 17th as a mad uncle out for cash. greeting smiles abound. was made to be a jerk. Alexander Payne's Sideways was The moon on the castle of Lemony Studying adolescents' dirty desires in charming, but he must settle for Snicket's Olaf the Count, Bill Murray was dressed in a scuba suit the name of science, second best. Gave luster to the bizarre as the series from his head to his foot, But running into trouble with a team Sam Raimi is the man. C'mon of unfortunate events mount. And his Oscar-less mantle was collect- showing defiance. Spiderman 2 was the best reviewed ing dust and soot. film this year - and probably only When what to the wondering eyes A talented team he assembled on his So spring to the cinema, only five to half of those critics appreciate should appear, sub for a Christmas Day lark, eight bucks no doubt, superhero movies. But another heist flick, Ocean's Twelve For Steve Zissou's Life Aquatic, his hunt Just make sure you shut your trap While George Lucas commands a will endear. for a mythical shark. when the lights go out. blue screen all day, Raimi is closing With a face women die for, so lively Well, maybe give a moment to let down sections of New York City and and quick, James L. Brooks comedies - how they people know, filming a spider and an octopus on It was known in a moment it must be can't fail - his genius so very extraor- "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a speeding train. Brad Pitt. dinary! enjoy the show!" So, this is a plea to the many His dramas are few, but successful Academy voters who read the More rapid than eagles on that tenth and on that 17th Spanglish should Projector - vote Raimi! they came, carry. Either that or give the Incredibles the best picture Oscar. Sadly, both won't happen. 14 ■ THE PROJECTOR I DECEMBER 6, 2004

Skeletal Bale phenomenal

BY RYAN HLADUN him unsuccessfully. The bags under Reznik's eyes hang below his The Machinist cheeks - he hasn't slept in a year. *** The lack of sleep begins to affect his work as a Globe machine operator - the distraction of a big bald Now Playing guy named Ivan ( John Sharman) causes a slip of hand and leaves a fellow worker armless. lsen twins rejoice! Starving yourself will As the plot unfolds Memento-style - one be the new 'in' thing to do in Hollywood deceptive clue at a time - bizarre details surface, after Christian Bale's eerily real perfor- 0 and Reznik begins to think everyone is out to get mance in The Machinist. him, while everyone questions his sanity. Bale shed a record-breaking 63 pounds to Without Bale's makeover, the film wouldn't Doc misses point envelope the role of insomniac Trevor Reznik in work nearly as well, because after watching The the creepy thriller. Machinist you'll want to do two things: eat and For those not familiar with Bale thinking, BY RYAN HLADUN flat on your face from the start as a sleep. "63 pounds isn't a whole lot," well, Bale was rock band - but is the same story for The film's atmosphere sucks you in - it's basically being called a British Tom Cruise. He DiG! the other countless rockers, punks colourless and claustrophobic, depressing and *** was the knife-wielding maniac in the lame duck and metal heads that don't make tiring - and all are what give it authenticity. The Cinematheque it past playing bars and school On now until Dec.9 Machinist is cold as steel. dances. They all have egos, weak Unfortunately, great- willpower, and are prone to mis- emember the car commer- ness is always out of reach. takes. So, who cares? cial with the catchy tune Thinking back, it's almost It seems Timoner wasn't sure that went, "You've got a as if Bale's performance R what focus to take. Interviews with great car and I like you...?" Yeah, was wasted on the film's supposed music pundits and peo- probably not. disappointing script. ple close to the band give indica- Well, if you do, for your informa- The dialogue is unnatu- tion that Newcombe was a musical tion it was a spin off of the song ral. In one scene, Reznik genius; meanwhile it shows how he Bohemian Like You by the Dandy flips out on Stevie - Bale was booed out of his last show and Warhols. Like you care, right? does the best he could, was never heard from again. Well then, that's what you'll prob- but it just comes off as The Sundance Grand Jury ably think of the documentary DiG! forced. Award-winning rockumentary is It's highly entertaining but ulti- Also, strangely, with loud, long, and a lot of nothing mately misses its point. the atmospheric realism - although, admittedly that nothing For seven years (beginning in director Brad Anderson does take you on a fun spin for a 1996) filmmaker Ondi Timoner fol- created, there are some good part of it. lowed around two fledgling bands situations where you're The footage is as candid as it American Psycho - or you might remember him - the Dandy Warhols, who flew left reminding yourself this guy hasn't slept in comes, and that's where the enter- better as the futuristic fascist fighter in the cult straight and professional, and the a year. tainment factor comes in. The sub- hit Equilibrium. Brian Johnstown Massacre, whose In one scene Reznik throws himself in front jects are so outrageous, especially Apparently he wanted to go from 190 to 110, deranged leader Anton Newcombe of a speeding car then walks away with only a Newcombe, whose actions are but his producers stopped him at 130 because prevented them from any sort of limp. unreal. You can't help but laugh at any more would pose health concerns (aw success. And using the lame dialogue, Reznik, look- his inane rants, and random tirades. c'mon, let the man go all the way!). The film's aim was to show the ing like skeleton on crack, successfully flirts And as a note to other bands: drugs Nonetheless, the transformation is a sickly opposite paths these bands took with waitress Mary (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) who and alcohol before you make it big sight - his pale skin cracks over protruding ribs, and where they ended up, but its allows him to spend time with her young son isn't the wisest choice. and it looks as if his spine is trying to escape his failure lies in the fact that both like all good parents would. The film focuses largely on body. You can literally see the shape of his last bands didn't make it anywhere Although, really, the fact that the film is so Newcombe's band mates, who all meal in his chasm of a stomach. - only the troubled Johnstown did engaging sensually makes it essential viewing have no problem ripping on each The Machinist opens in Reznik's apartment it quicker. - you can mute the sound and still get the same other when the camera is on them. - a pad that would make a typical student's It shows how the bands started effect. DiG! can be more than a laugh place look like Martha Stewart Living. as great friends, but as they grew Bale will hit your screen next beefed up as the to a select audience, but it's diffi- Reznik's toothpick arms wrap around the farther apart they developed a bit- new Batman. That rapid gain and loss of weight cult getting past the fact that these bed board and he grimaces uncomfortably as ter rivalry. Well, it was more like can't be good for him, but hey - actors are above bands, who might have been once hooker Stevie (Jennifer Jason Leigh, who is best a rivalry only the whiny, childish regular people, right? promising, never hit mainstream, when playing a hooker) attempts to pleasure Newcombe cared to keep. where, for casual music fans, is DiG! is a blueprint of how to fall what it's all about.

Try to avoid... Alexander BY IAN CALLIOU native accent (ranging from Farrell's Irish brogue to the add it to his repertoire. Get rid of these overdramatic, American drawl of Val Kilmer, who plays King Philip). useless rants and get on with the scene already. eople left well before the end of Alexander - I've The battle scenes lack the epic feel of The Last At the end of the day, I'm left wondering where my only seen that once before. Some people even Samurai and the Lord of the Rings. Farrell brings out a 175 minutes and $10 went, and why the guy was ever p started yelling at the screen before they got up side of Alexander that seems to be lacking in all history called Great. and left. books - not being a bisexual, but having self-doubt. I Nonetheless, Alexander (Colin Farrell) had an inter- don't imagine Alexander earned the title of Great by esting life. He won over 60 battles at the head of an being an insecure lout - a shortcoming in the script often overmatched army, thousands of miles away from though, not acting. home. Should be the makings for a good movie, right? No, the blame in this movie does not lie with the Throw in the controversy surrounding Alexander's life actors, but in director Stone, who made Alexander and you should have the right mix for a blockbuster. the slowest, most boring blockbuster of the sea- Unfortunately, director Oliver Stone chose to put the son. greatness of Alexander on the backburner. Instead, the Ranking among the most boring moments movie is largely about less interesting angles like how was the obligatory warm-up-the-troops Alexander wants to be a god, is better than his dad, speech that precedes just about any battle wants a son, and is apparently in love with fellow solider scene. Mel Gibson alone has done Hephaistion (Jared Leto) nearly a dozen, now Farrell can Annoyingly apparent are the actors who came to act and those who came just for a pay cheque. The only solid Greek accent in the whole movie came from Angelina Jolie. The rest decided to speak in his or her

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Comedy shines in sad prairie play Unity Memorable characters drive historical tale Unity Nov. 14, 2004 Prairie Theatre Exchange

BY CORINNE INNES The two old grannies are the Saskatchewan town causing ferent to death; a young girl, Sissy in the town, coffins are laid out telephone operators at the cen- more frenzy than help who thinks the world is coming on stage for each death. They play about the First World tre of the small and causing the panic to an end and her controlling slowly become props on the set War and the Spanish Fl to spread faster than older sister Beatrice who thinks – benches for people to sit on, As expected to be any- he flu. The women knitting socks for the soldiers and beds for the newly sick to thing but funny, but when two gossip on the phone will bring them home safely. lie on, and even the set for the old grannies steal the show, lines suggesting who The characters keep the show town's dance. Unity turns a sad tale into a to stay away from alive during the tough times of Continuing the satire of fear, witty satirical hit. and sharing their the story, each embellishing our everyone at the dance is instruct- Unity takes place in 1918 old naive philoso- weakness of fear. ed to dance a yard away. The play when the war has ended and phies. The only character who is filled with dark humour about the soldiers have returned home Not only are the remains calm during the epi- death and reveals a different tale – with the Spanish Flu. The epi- two old women demic is Sunna, a 15-year-old of war's tragedies, and the shat- demic overwhelms the town of hilarious, but they Icelandic girl who is running the tered homes that awaited their Unity with panic and they react are backed up by busy funeral home. As an out- loved ones to return. by cutting themselves off from a whole cast of sider to the town she welcomes Unity proves that comedy is the rest of the country. No trains funny charac- Hart, the new suspected culprit essential in a sad tale. If you are are allowed to stop; no one can ters. There is the for the flu. Hart, indifferent to thirsty for the perfect combina- enter the town, and the mail blind soldier, the death all around him, builds tion of history and comedy, Unity from overseas is burnt. Hart, who wan- coffins for Sunna with a bright is more than satisfying. They are left with only their ders around perky attitude. telephones to communicate. the town indif- As the number of bodies rise

A Nonsuch celebration Famed replica turns 30

BY MIKE UHRICH and Groseillers sailed into theory," said Jeff Koffman, senior Canada from England in 1668. marketing and communications et sail on a voyage through According to Lamont, it is a manager for the museum. "Only history this month at the replica that was commissioned this time the bottle was built December 10 I Dirty Pretty Things ''' S Manitoba Museum. by the Hudson's Bay Company. around the ship." December marks the 30th By using techniques used in Koffman said the ship was Okvve, a Nigerian doctor, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work a the same London hotel, We follow Okwe as he skirts immigration officials, anniversary of the Nonsuch, the the 17th century, the ship was actually lowered into place, and ship which rests comfortably falls in love, and turns his nose up at the drug dealing and prostitution constructed by J. Hinks & Sons the entire museum was built in the place he is forced to work. When Dkwe finds a human heart in inside the museum, and around the exhibit. one of the toilets our perception of London's underworld is shattered -- the ship that is a fixture Andrew Fallack, the and petty back alley triMes torso to seem like child's plag. of elementary school assistant conservator field trips. at the museum says Celebrations start the conservation of the December 17 I City of God on Dec. 3 when Laird Nonsuch is paid for by Welcome to the world's Most notorious slum; Rio de Janeiro's City of `Rankin's new book, The grant money, which God." This film brings you inside a place where combat photographers Nonsuch: The Ship That originally came form the fear to tread, where police rarely go,. and where residents are lucky if Launched an Empire Hudson's Bay Company. they live to the age Of 20 his is the truei story of a young man who grew up on these streets is released at a kickoff "We often have to call ; and whose ambition as a photographer isjOur window into his world 7 and 0,1timately his tanlij Way out: at the museum. From in experts to work on the there the entire month rigging," says Fallack. "It's is filled with Nonsuch very complicated." January 7 I The Killing Fields programming which In fact, every two years We follow New York Time reporter Sydney 5cnanbeng in his franti c includes musicians, a Inga Thorsteinson from efforts to find his friend and colleague Pith Pran after the Cambodia, - new CD-Rom kiosk out- Transport Canada's coast translator falls into the hands of the brutal Khmer Rouge The Killine side the ship, a lecture by guard division comes to Fields is both an account of a modern war many have forgotten, and a Nonsuch crew member the museum to do a con- comment on friendship and the tragic 'esdlts of a journal st drwen in his Sam Richards, and tours dition report on the ship. quest of revealing the truth. of the Nonsuch hold, Koffman expects the which up until this point Nonsuch festivities to January 14 I Cry Freedom has been closed to the bring in over 50,000 public. patrons in the month of Donald Woods is chief editor at the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in apartheid-era South Africa who befriends Steve Biko, a povverful anti "We want to give December, which would apartheid activist. After Biko is murdered by the police Woods attempts people a chance to be above average for the see Nonsuch as they to force an inquest, whicn ultimately ends in failure. We follow Woods in England. After its completion, museum. as he and his family escapes the country after they are targeted by state have never seen her before," the ship sailed from England to "The Nonsuch expedition police and shunned by white society. said Dugald Lamont, commu- France and back in 1969, and is one of the great Canadian nications coordinator at the was then shipped to Canada in stories," said Lamont. "It takes museum. "People sometimes 1970. in Canada's three founding think that this is a model—they From there, Lamont says it peoples—French, English, and For more info call: 632-2404 don't realize that it was an actual was taken on a tour of the Great Aboriginal—and was crucial to Diversity Immigrant Student Support working vessel." Lakes and sailed the West coast the opening up of the Canadian D105 - 2055 Notre Dame Avenue In actuality, the Nonsuch of Canada and the U.S., before west and everything that fol- E-mail: Imphillipsrirrc.mb.ca housed inside the museum isn't Diversity & Immigrant being brought to Winnipeg. lowed." Student Support www.rrt.mb.cai cid 16 THE PROJECTOR I DECEMBER 6, 2004 I THE 111[88[10X... Missing SA hits the slippery slopes simpler times in BY NATHAN NUDALH night tubing, and hitting the local bars. ter than any lesson your friend can give "It's better than a toboggan on gar- you." sports bage hill," said Blatherwick. "There is According to Blatherwick, space is fter a semester of torture at Red more to school than what is learned in limited and is based on a first pay-first River College, you've probably class - enjoy your college years, go on a go basis. ZURICK SCHERGER Abeen in something much deeper RRC trip." Blatherwick said Fernie sales are Columnist than eight feet of snow. Blatherwick said that over past years already at the half way mark. Freezing your ass off will be a wel- there has been lots of snow and good "Considering past success, students ately, I find myself wondering come feeling. Why not have some fun weather. shouldn't wait to sign up." why I continue to be a sports doing it? The second trip this year is new The deadline to sign up for Asessippi Lfan. The Students' Association has two - four days in Fernie, BC from Feb. 24- is Friday, Jan. 7 and the SA wants a Now when sports fans turn on one ski and snowboard trips planned, 28. Packages start at $359 and include deposit for the Fernie trip by Wednesday, of the specialty channels to watch a and according to events co-ordinator motor coach transportation, three-night Dec. 15. game or highlights we are inundated Michael Blatherwick, they will eclipse accommodations, pub crawl, and three- All payments can be made in one of with images of men in suits growling prior years. day lift tickets. the SA offices; room DM20 at the Notre at each other; of overpaid, narrow- The first is the annual trip to Asessippi, "The resort is looking at having record Dame campus, or room P110 at the minded athletes telling us that they Man. on Jan. 28-30. Packages start at snow falls this year," said Blatherwick. Princess Street campus. think of their families; or of players $165 and include motor coach trans- "We are doing three different bar "I have run a number of trips and RRC climbing into the stands to fight with portation, two-night accommodations, nights. This will be a great chance for students are the best - always looking to fans. tubing, and two-day lift tickets. students to take advantage of the four party; always good times," he said. Who is there left to cheer for? "It is a great chance to get away for day semester break in February" Blatherwick recalled an incident of Do you want to believe that Barry the weekend and enjoy some skiing and Ski and snowboard rentals and les- naked snow angels. Bonds has doubled his weight in the some partying," said Blatherwick. sons are available for extra charge. "I guess some students are immune last 20 years without science? How According to Blatherwick the ski trip Blatherwick recommends that first-time to snow." can a guy like Kobe Bryant go from is well received each year. He said stu- skiers and snowboarders take a lesson. pinnacle to doghouse in such a short dents have loved the ski hill karaoke, "The lesson at the hill is usually bet- time? Have Todd Bertuzzi and Dany Heatley learned from their mistakes? Did that famous Winnipeg sports- writer just get lazy or did he become .1:463> • cocky, or was this all just a big mis- take? What was that guy doing with a Abariginad Stioisalkso M Vi it $ cosi sex tape of Gary Sheffield's wife from 10 years ago? Is NFLer Ricky Williams itierviihri IIRC a dope? F209 and Princes It's not as if sports hasn't had a P407 its fill of controversy in the past. Kermit Washington broke Rudy did t0 Tomjanovich's face in 1977. Bobby Clarke chopped down Valery in F2O9 at the Notre Dame Canpus on December 7, 10, 4 and Kharlamov like a large Russian fir 17 He is availWe for one on one consult and can interpret tree in '72. Both Wade Boggs and Steve Garvey had to own up to extra- dr s. He will be hosting an introcklicbm to the Medicine marital affairs during their illustrious in F213 on Tuesday Dec 7, at noon. baseball careers. And don't forget about O.J. When we used to hear the word court, we thought of basketball. Now A d the word conjures up images of Kobe Bryant, Ron Artest, Dany Heatley and Hannah (Nancy) u sary - Jan ry 1 Todd Bertuzzi standing in front of a • Sibyl McKay Inkster Bursary January I judge. • Royal Sank Native Students Awards Proly arivary 31 It was easy to get excited about the games. Now we spend our time For Amlicatbris drop by F209 at Notre Dame canyxus or contact °ride talppenstein, Aborigin wondering about collective bargain- Student Support Representative at 6324773, Notre Dame oammis or Princess Street campus ing agreements, rule changes, poor at 9494402. officiating and contract holdouts. Maybe it's too easy to transport yourself back to a time when sports Nothing events F were simpler. Tune into TSN or Sportsnet most nights and you can Thursday December 2nd, -4, The anging roles of Native 1 n a nd Women today, watch a vintage game, with the time- presented by Bea Shawancia, International Keynote speaker, storyteller and less jerseys, wacky hairstyles and entertainer. Must register. good, hard-fought action. North America has become a me- • Monday December 6, 12:15-12:45, The Unity Ride, a Sharing Circle video presentation. first culture. Simple times are gone to • Tuesday December 7th, 12- 1, Aboriginal Women's connection to the Drum. Presented never return. With the media scrutiny by Mae Louise Campbell. and intense pressure applied to ath- • Tuesday December r 12-10 Introduction to the Medicine Wheel with Jules tavallee in F213. letes today, it's easy to understand • Who is an Elder, Wh4;t IS an Elder with Mae Louise Campbell In the Multi Purpose room why some athletes feel they need to at Princess Street campus. take extra measures to succeed. Wednesday December 15th, 12-1, A look at Traditional Aboriginal Woolen's We put them on a pedestal from Ceremonies and the Full Moon Ceremony, presented by Mae Louise Campbell the time they are very young. For most of them it's all they know. How • Tuesday December 21, Aborigkiai Education Staff Day and Winter Solstice Feast many times do you have to be told • Friday December 10, 12-1 , Aboriginal Programs Student and Staff pizza party that you are great before you start • Friday December 10, 4:30, Children's Christmas Party, please register in F209 with believing the hype, requiring more Sara by Dec 6. adulation? May 6th, 2005 Graduation Traditional Pow wow in the North Gym. Moments of violence are forgotten over time, at least until somebody AtAbori riginrginal Centre Coordinator. Sera Metvor.Prouty coordnates events and else does something stupid. Mistakes Can 6324106 for information. Check our webeite for more events mid informa often fade away. In the end, life goes on. 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BY CHRIS KITCHING prices. at the Old Barn. Library, Portage Place Shopping officials estimate there are 30,000 Compared to last year at A jumbo hot dog, for example, Centre, Winnipeg Square and parking stalls in downtown. ark Chipman had a Winnipeg Arena, individual tick- will cost you $4 while a nine-inch cityplace can be booked and paid Of those, about 7,000 are with- specific goal in mind ets at the new rink have gone up pizza from Gondola Pizza will set for online through Ticketmaster, in a five-minute walk of the MTS Mwhen he began plan- by "a few bucks" Chipman said, you back $9. Chipman said. Centre, while roughly 13,000 are ning for a new downtown arena: but fans can save up to $120 if Fans looking to knock back a During events, Winnipeg 10 minutes away. making hockey affordable for they buy packs of 10, 20 or 30 few wobbly pops during Moose Transit has extra buses running Red River College's Students' everyone. games games and other events will have to and from the rink, Association has a series of Moose "We were very conscious No matter if it's one game or to shell out at least $5 a beer. while arena hockey nights throughout of pricing when we moved in all 36 at the MTS Centre, Moose Hard liquor and other booze the school year. and (we believe) the games are fans might want to bring a small prices are even higher, while soft The next is very affordable," Chipman, the lunch or a snack from home. drinks start at $3. scheduled for owner of the Manitoba Moose, There are several food stands Price increases aren't limited to Saturday, Jan. 8. said from the press box during and restaurants inside the inside the new arena, either. Tickets are on his team's first game at the MTS arena - including Tim Hortons, Outside - where one of the big- sale at the Ox Centre, a 4-2 win over the St. Quiznos and Gondola Pizza - but gest concerns, aside from safety, and Mercantile John's Maple Leafs. fans may have to empty their raised by critics and others was stores for $14. While the move to Portage wallets and purses if they want to the issue of parking - certain lots The last sold Avenue has renewed interest in fill their stomachs. have jacked up their fees by any- out accord- his American Hockey League That's because vendors at the where from 25 cents to two bucks ing to the team and boosted attendance, it MTS Centre have higher prices during MTS Centre events. SA. also means an increase in ticket compared to their counterparts Parking spots at the Millennium

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BY CHRIS KITCHING Winnipeg," said Moose fan Rick $133.5 million arena. Ryder, 52, during the first period "This is way better than the old at a difference a new of Manitoba's 4-2 win over the St. barn. It's definitely a lot brighter in building makes. John's Maple Leafs. here," hockey fan Brian Crannstone, The Manitoba Moose "It's going to draw lots and lots 31, said from his lower bowl seat have played their first four home of entertainment that we wouldn't during the first intermission. games at the MTS Centre in front have seen if not for the MTS The Oakbank resident had no of sellout crowds, including the Centre." complaints about the pace of the Nov. 17 opener that drew more than His son lives in Minnesota, where game, which has been the biggest 15,000 fans. the Xcel Energy Centre in St. Paul knock against the Moose since the Hundreds of Winnipeggers has revived that city's downtown, Jets left town in 1996. showed up at the rink more than an Ryder said. "It's not the NHL but it's not bad. I hour before the first face-off to get a "I'm hoping it does the same here. used to go to the games when it was glimpse of everything the state-of- The restaurants and bars here will the IHL and this is way better than the-art facility has to offer. do booming business and after that that," Crannstone said. "It's going to be a big thing for I'm sure it will filter out," he said. Two of the MTS Centre's major Ryder and every- features are a state of the art score- one else in the board that has four high-resolution building had to screens, and a "power ring" video wait a period and display that circles the entire arena. a half for the first VVinnipegger Janis Urniezius had American Hockey no complaints about the score- League goal in MTS board or anything else in the rink Centre history. from her seat in the upper deck. Eight • minutes "There's a good view from every- into the second where and all the seats are padded," period, Moose the 27-year-old said during the captain Nolan third period. "It has a more intimate Baumgartner col- feel here." lected his fourth The upper bowl was open for the goal of the season first Moose game but will be closed when he connected for the rest of the season, leaving with winger Peter the 147,000 sq. ft. arena with a Sarno and fellow crowd capacity of 8,812 people. blue-liner Kirill Moose players and staff are just as Koltsov on the excited as fans are about their new power-play. downtown home, team owner Mark Before that, refer- Chipman said. ee Brian Pochmara "I've been here every day for a had already waved long time and it's been nice to see it off two Manitoba come to life," Chipman said during goals that weren't the game. "It really hit home when enough to stop the people sat in their seats tonight." PHOTOS I CHRIS KITCHING buzz inside the 18 THE PROJECTOR I DECEMBER 6, 2004

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Old time favourite a tasty treat Restaurant decor showcases city's colourful past

BY BROOK JONES Prairies. The establishment valuable. families that come to experience than a customer. This full ser- opened its doors in Winnipeg Another antique that has dining that is made simple and vice family restaurant provides in the early '70s and has been made the restaurant famous is easy for the guest at old fash- its guests with a relaxing atmo- _Averyve city should be blessed a landmark ever since. The the trolley, which came from the ioned prices. sphere. with a restaurant like the Sanford building in Winnipeg's era of Winnipeg's 1919 General You can sit in the restaurant's Guests receive free loaves of F Old Spaghetti Factory. downtown Exchange District Strike and can be found on the East side solarium and have bread, a house salad or bowl of It's evident that the Old was home to the Old Spaghetti restaurant's patio. the view of the Odena, which soup and ice-cream with every Spaghetti Factory strives to Factory for over 26 years prior to Newly appointed general is sacred ground at the Forks, entree purchased. maintain its original concept of their re-location to the Johnston manager Graham Thomson and used by Aboriginals for cer- The old spaghetti factory has fine pasta and excellent service Terminal at the Forks in 2000. server Amy Milas agree on one emonies and dancing. You can the facilities to accommodate in a special setting. In keeping with this tradition- thing — that they love working take advantage of the luncheon large groups from 20 to 200. The restaurant's tradition al theme, the restaurant is filled at the Old Spaghetti Factory. It specials. The experience is great In addition, the Old Spaghetti began in 1970 when the first with antiques and pictures of seems very much like one big -- nice and cozy. Factory opens its doors daily to Canadian location opened its days gone by. The front entrance family. It is evident that one is wel- the public at 11:30 a.m. and also doors in Vancouver's Gastown. features the world's largest kiln- Milas, 19, who is one of 40 comed and made to feel at home offers special hours on holidays. The concept of this restau- dried vase weighing about 300 servers, said that there are a lot when they enter the doors and rant ventured East across the pounds and looks to be pretty of regular guests, tourists and are referred to as a guest rather Head down to Confusion Corner New bar & grill leaves lasting impression

BY CARLY THOMPSON The Confusion Corner Bar and which we both agreed was fabu- onions from your order unless Confusion Corner Bar & Grill was Grill's building has been the site lously flavorful. you are a serious onion fan. that for two glasses of wine, an hen you have a guest for various automobile dealer- Next came our appetizer: My friend ordered one of the appetizer, and a main course, the in your home, you ships in the past, but since reno- Crispy Asian Spring Rolls with specials: Bacon and Pineapple bill only came to around $43. Woffer them your favor- vating, its interior now resembles a spicy dipping sauce. Although Pizza, which was light and tasty I will be returning to the ite chair, you offer them your a ritzy ski lodge. A large fireplace the sauce did not burn my with a thin, crispy crust. Confusion Corner Bar & Grill favorite drink, your favorite food. in the middle of the restaurant mouth, the temperature of the Both of us felt full, but not the again. The atmosphere was We have guests, not customers, sets the tone for the whole spring rolls almost did. However, usual about-to-explode type of wonderful, but most impor- in our restaurant," said Mitch place. The lounge looks similar the taste was top notch. bloating typically experienced tantly, it was the first time I've Davidson, an assistant gen- in terms of the deep, rich colors My main course was the Mango after a meal out. While taking a left a restaurant in a long time eral manager at the Confusion of the walls, linens and the dim Chicken Wrap, which comes with peek at the dessert menu, my feeling satisfied without the urge Corner Bar and Grill. lighting, except with big screen fries or a salad. The fact that the jaw dropped — two different sizes to loosen my belt. Although it has only been open televisions on the walls. wrap was something different of desserts — the regular size, or since Nov. 8, my dining experi- We ordered a half-pint of one than Tye tasted before was sat- the "three-bite size". ence at Davidson's establishment of the house wines: E & I Galto isfying. If you plan to order this Perhaps the most appealing was relaxing and glitch-free. (Sierra Valley) White Zinfandel, dish in the future, eliminate the part of my experience at the

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20 nil s IC THE PROJECTOR I DECEMBER 6, 2004 Evolved Hip rock 'Peg GWAR kills GWAR cased when a guy crowd surfing Nov. 29, 2004 put his hands on Oderus, and Pyramid Cabaret received one of the worst beat downs I've seen at the hands of a microphone stand. Oderus BY MIKE UHRICH proceeded to inform the crowd, "if anyone touches me, I'll f--- et me remind you, I was ing kill you!" in Vietnam." Fortunately for the fans who Those were John Kerry's L came to see blood, gore, and poignant last words before a death, GWAR delivered and Tragically Hip Blow at High Dough, our coun- and Boots or Hearts. Sure, the seven-foot long broadsword then some. Nov. 23, 2004 try's most famous front man crowd wasn't as into some of wielded by Oderus Urungus, John Kerry wasn't the only MTS Centre was on his game. the new material, but that didn't the lead singer of the famed one who went down in a pool Clad in dark blue jeans, com- deter the Hip from treating each horror-metal band, GWAR, of his own blood. The band plete with a cowboy belt buckle song as if it were a smash hit. BY CHAD SCARSBROOK decapitated him. managed to rip through nearly and black button-up shirt, The Hip also went through For those of you who don't a dozen famous faces: Arnold ho else could christen Downie had the crowd of about all the favourites in their 24 know who or what GWAR is, I'll Schwarzenegger, Paris Hilton, the MTS Centre the 11,000 eating out of his hands. song set including New Orleans give you a quick lesson. From Michael Jackson (and his son right way but The One memorable moment had is Sinking, Nautical Disaster, W what I understand, they are one Blanket), Osama Bin Laden, Tragically Hip? Downie frustrated with his mic Grace, Too; Courage and Little of two things: people dressed George W. Bush, a futuristic Okay, that concert held a few stand's apparent need for the Bones. up and pretending to be aliens, Ronald Reagan dubbed "The weeks earlier for the old folks spotlight. The singer chastised One of the criticisms of the or aliens that look a lot like Reaganator", the leader of their didn't count. This was the real the mic for its prima-donna atti- band over the past few years people who are dressed up and Winnipeg fan club, and Bone deal, the first big show in our tude and then, set it to the front was that they weren't writ- pretending to be aliens. Snapper the cave troll. I did state of the art building, and of the stage for its "big debut". ing music in the Road Apples Secondly, they play a form leave one name off the list, the Canada's favourite rock band When the crowd began to sing or Fully Completely mould. of music called metal. Metal, corpse of Laci Peterson and her put on an amazing show. I've At the Hundredth Meridian, There's no question the Hip of the way that GWAR plays unborn child, whose death took seen the Hip play in Winnipeg Downie snarled "Don't help today won't be mistaken for it, could also be referred tastelessness to a whole new six times over the past nine him!" the Hip circa long Gordie hair to as lacklustre at best. level - a level that I'm sure taste- years and this was easily their It was typical show from a - but that's not a bad thing. The Although maybe I shouldn't lessness never intended to go. best performance ever in the band that has made its reputa- band has evolved musically and make a judgment like that while As the show came to a close, city. tion on its live act. Downie's personally. We're not living in being heavily distracted by the they wheeled out a blood Lead singer Gord Downie was rants are legendary in this coun- the mid '90s anymore, so you're decapitations and disembow- cannon and put the "splatter the most animated I'd ever seen try because the audience simply just not going to hear a re-write eling going on in front of my guards" that lined the walls of him. From the early strums of never knows what to expect. of Three Pistols. Instead, expect eyes. the Pyramid to use. They shot Vaccination Scar, the first single It's the same with the music. to hear more beautiful melodies Let's face it - GWAR's music streams of fake blood all over of the latest album In Between The set list in Winnipeg includ- and more thought-provoking isn't what made them famous; the audience for 15 minutes Evolution, to the last song of the ed such obscure gems as Escape lyrics. covering the audience in fake and were thoughtful enough night (during the third encore!) is at Hand for the Travellin' Man blood, killing pop culture icons, to hose down the woman in and being violent, vulgar and the wheelchair for a half of that vicious is what made them time. Bless you GWAR, you are famous. truly a class act. Metal icons rock the Burt These traits were best show-

Megadeth The Winnipeg stop is part In the thrash metal commu- Nov. 21, 2004 of Megadeth's Blackmail the nity there is often talk of tTie Burton Cummings Theatre Universe tour so it made sense "Big 4" thrash groups of the '80s. that the first song was Blackmail This is Megadeth, Metallica, BY JARED STORY the Universe. This was just one Slayer, and Anthrax. Mustaine of seven songs they played off told the audience that it was 'm not a fan of the sym- their new album The System actually more like the "Big 5", phony, but a Symphony of Has Failed. The reception to referring to how Exodus should Destruction - that I like. the new songs was good, but it be included in the list. With that Speed metal band Megadeth, appeared as though some in the the openers joined Megadeth along with openers Exodus, .; audience hadn't heard them yet, on the stage for Back in the Day. blasted the Burton Cummings as there were many with con- The song speaks of the glory Theatre Nov. 21 with a heavy fused looks on their faces. Any days of heavy metal, but judging metal roar that made the mostly bewildered looks disappeared by the crowd's reaction, back in male 2,000 the day may be plus audi- today. ence scream Megadeth like delighted closed their school girls. set with Holy Exodus Wa r s T h e (the band Punishment Metallica Due, off the guitarist Kirk 1990 album Hammett Rust in Peace. o e e helped form The song is as in 1982) got powerful now the weight of your school work becoming a pain in the neck? the heads as it was then Is your mind going numb from staring at a computer screen? banging and with lyrics fists pumping like, "killing for Need to relieve the stress & tension? early, with a religion, some- hard-driving thing I don't Why not get a MASSAGE! set of thrash metal that made when the band pulled out the understand," fitting perfectly the wait for Megadeth much classics. with what is seen on the dinner See Dan Kasper at Herbal Infusion easier on the crowd. Touring Songs like Peace Sells, hour news everyday. Megadeth singer Steve Esquivel, who is Reckoning Day, and Trust is a great band because they 93 1/2 Albert St. Winnipeg, Mb. filling the spot of the recently drew thunderous appreciation. stay current, relevant, and will 942-8951 or 299-7942 fired Steve Souza, ordered the When band leader-vocalist-gui- always make sense. Oh yeah, crowd to raise their "metal tarist Dave Mustaine held out and they kick some ass too. horns" and a mass of arms were the mic during Sweating Bullets, quickly extended with a two fin- the singing of the crowd nearly ger salute. drowned out the music. THE PROJECTOR I DECEMBER 6, 2004 21

Perms ready to impress kicking my ass 'Peg rockers releasing third album

BY RD. WARDEN pet, has been together for extra little bit of advice," students, and the other just over a year now Perry says. "He's been members holding down fter seven years, "Fans have said that the able to give us a fresh day jobs, they don't get several line-up live stuff is cooler, but on perspective and it makes much sleep. hanges, two self- stage we can experiment a huge difference in terms "Yeah, it's been hectic" produced CDs with a third more," Perry says. "Now of the end result." he says laughing. "We've near completion, and with these new tracks Having drawn compari- been real busy record- relocating to Winnipeg we're really taking our sons in the past to bands ing this album at Private from Brandon, you have time, evaluating ourselves like Weezer, Sloan, and Ear Studios, working and to hand it to local power as we go and it shows, I even early Elvis Costello, going to school, while at pop band the Perms. think people are going to Perry is eager to have the same time doing as "There's a lot of com- be surprised." people experience what many shows as we can." petition in Winnipeg While the last two the Perms have to offer. Perry mentions that SHAWNA FORESTER I Columnist because there are so many albums were self-pro- "We've beefed up the they would like to head to bands," says Scott Perry, duced, the yet untitled horn section for this Europe next summer, but Get the right mix in your mix tapes who handles saxophone third CD marks the first record, so it'll be a pro- that "it's still in the plan- and keyboard duties for time the band has worked gression from Clarke ning stages right now." the five-piece unit. "But with a producer. Drive," says Perry, refer- "What we'd really like forgot how much I like mix tapes. I got one everything we've been Local rock legends ring to the bands second to see this record do is to in the mail the other day from a friend of doing live has been work- Lloyd Peterson and Neil album, which was a most- get major labels excited I mine who runs a record label in the US, and ing in the studio, so we're Cameron, who have ly guitar-driven collection about the band, we've I was super giddy to put it on. really excited about this worked with notable of tunes. "There's going been working real hard He named his mix Shake It Off, in support of new record." Winnipeg bands the to be brass on about 80 and we're just itching to the recent shit-storm of crap flying in my face Brothers Shane (bass Weakerthans and - the percent of this one." crank it up a notch, take from all directions. I dig it - a soundtrack for my and vocals) and Chad Wailin' Jennys among With the Smith broth- the next step, get to the stress. (guitar and vocals) Smith others, will be handling ers both being full-time next level." Mix tapes are a delicate grey area. I mean sure, started the band in high production. platonic mix tapes are fine and easy enough to school in 1997, eventually "It's been great having make and I'm sure even the most musically moving to the 'Peg in 2002 Lloyd as that extra ear, challenged could pull one off. and they haven't looked giving us that I'm talking about the other kind. You know the back. kind where you are trying to channel the words The current you dare not say through Prince's lips. The kind line-up, which is we scenester girls make when trying to impress rounded out by some dork with our love of obscure music. John Huver on You can come off too strong in a mix tape drums and newest after all. It must be every boy's dream to get a addition Craig mix tape with, "I want a lover I don't have to Bonnet love," by Bright Eyes. But it doesn't happen very on trum- often. 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I love rock and roll, and more impor- progressive metal band, if that genre tantly I'm a big fan of progressive rock. wasn't already hard enough to remember. I've worshipped bands like Yes, Rush, and The lyrics are all very positive and well Dream Theatre for years, which is why I crafted, but occasionally suffer from bouts The Winnipeg scene is ripe wi nted they're doing, and the group of local fans found it so shocking there could be such of repetition as you get a feeling that all musicians who all bring somethi r er- they have accumulated like what they're a great progressive metal band operating the songs are delivering the same mes- ent to our city's great music scene - ast doing, but unfortunately that's just not right under my nose. sage, which they are - Satan is bad and when they aren't exploiting and a ng enough in today's music business. The Dream Quest's The Release is an album God is good. A wholesome message that is the same tried and true rock formu at Saucermen don't translate well into main- that may be the start of something big for ultimately quite refreshing in the world of seems to be what's big in music tod stream radio and, basically, the average this Winnipeg power trio, consisting of music where it seems that sex, drugs, and The Saucermen are no different, music fan won't be able to listen to them brothers Mark and Steve Doerksen, and getting "clunked" up, are the norm. sense that they are poles apart fr for very long without growing anxious to Phil Janzen. The three have combined All in all, this is a great disc by a great mould that countless bands have X to hear a vocal part. Undoubtedly, they'll soaring guitars with intricate melodies, Winnipeg band and should do wonders in fit in. They are a tribute to the clas ck- soon be asking the same question I'm all while weaving a tapestry of sound in getting its career going in the right direc- ers of years past. If you're a fan eep sure the Saucermen have been asked since dozen's of time signatures. tion. I see nothing but good things coming Purple, pick up this album. If y a fan they first formed: "Why don't you have a The album's opening track, Facekicker, from the release of The Release, but Dream of Judas Priest, pick up this . Even singer?" does just that - it kicks you directly in the Quest will just have to wait to see what the if you're a fan of Joe Satriani up this According to the band, they find the face as the band sings about the evils of big man upstairs has in store for them. album. You know what, jus ourself a voice is just an instrument they don't use. Satan, which is a common topic for Dream favour and pick up this It's a simple explanation, and one that sat- Quest. The band is actually a Christian - MIKE UHRICH Right about now y. robably won- isfies me. This band is great the way they dering how they c eaking out of the are, and I'm sure adding a singer wouldn't mould when nd like all these great hurt, but right now when bands like the ban vent yet mentioned that Waking Eyes, the Weakerthans, and the men have two guitarists, a bass- Inward Eye are making it big, I hope these Pearl Jam ist, a drummer, and a keyboardist...and guys get a chance to show (not tell) the Greatest Hits 1991-2003 that's it. No singer. This is instrumental world that Winnipeg rocks. riff-rock at its finest and a true tribute to the rock gods. Unfortunately, the lack of a voice is the - MIKE UHRICH Saucermen's only real downfall. I like what

The Telepathic Butterflies Songs From a Second Wave In 1991, Pearl Jam helped start a revolu- lends its best to this collection and tion that changed the face of rock music. shows not only their diverse sound, b They are one of the greatest bands who how much the band has grown both ever rocked the free world. So it should be cally and musically. It is a beauti a good thing when they release a greatest at Pearl Jam's musicianship, pa#larly hits album. Eddie Vedder's raw, edgy voice a Mike But when I found out that Pearl Jam was McCready's shredding guitar s releasing Rearviewmirror, I was worried for Rearviewmirror goes beyo e over- three reasons. How were they were going played grunge anthems lik en Flow, to release anything better than Benaroya and Jeremy. It also includes utiful bal- Hall or Lost Dogs? How would they offer lads Betterman, Daughter a the haunt- It is time hop on a new homegrown The Awkward Gene that keep their album anything the 72 live bootlegs didn't already ing Off He Goes. They also t . , w on some bandwagon and grab a pair of aviators from slipping into a psychedelic lull. cover? And third, and most distressing, cult favourites such as Cord , Flail Hail and your '60s finest and rock out retro Overall, their songs sound shock- was that this greatest hits album was just and the hard rockin' Spin the ck Circle. with the Telepathic Butterflies. ingly similar and their titles are more going to be a re-release of Ten - but with But never fear, those be d grunge The Winnipeg trio has no shortage of intriguing than the actual songs - The Rearviewmirror on it. anthems still made it on th ter, and vintage appeal on their newest release Uncomfortableness of Being is not nearly Putting my worries to rest, Pearl Jam have never sounded better. Pe give Songs From a Second Wave. Anyone who as interesting as it sounds. has successfully re-sold their music again us remixes of Once and Alive, new, loves stripped down, '60s-style, drums 'n' This is not to say that the band is bor- - and it's probably the best it's ever been. funked-out Evenflow that puts th final guitar garage music has definitely found ing. In fact, with Songs From a Second The collection, which covers everything to shame. their match here. Wave, they've done something quite from the screaming Ten days to the politi- Rearviewmirror is a greatest hits al Drummer Jacques Dubois's simple unique. They've taken a rather uninter- cal protest Riot Act days, is a truly perfect that does more than compile the son marching band beat, Eric Van Buren's esting album and have made it somewhat showcase of such a diverse band. They play that happened to make it to No. 1 - they funky bass lines, and Mean Ricard's irresistible. Maybe it's the melodic, sing everything from hard rock to acoustic bal- have given us their greatest work. sleepy vocals, sung in his fake British along nature of Ricard's vocals; maybe it's lads, and effortlessly meld alternative rock accent, all make for a charming version of the rhythmic bass and drums; maybe it's with punk, classic rock, blues and folk. - JEN ZORATTI the decade's mod rock. the lyrics - somehow, this album is capti- Every album from their 13-year career The band employs all the techniques vating - despite being a little repetitive. that make mod music so much fun, much Their catchy hooks and overall simplic- like Scottish darlings Franz Ferdinand and ity make for a solid sound - and Ricard Winnipeg colleagues Novilerro - simple can sing. And they've added a certain bass and drum lines with pleasant, soft charisma that makes you want to listen to spoken vocals and charming lyrics. this album again and again. You can tell Although, sometimes that combina- that these guys love to play music, and tion can make for music that is more dull that's really what counts. than delightful. The Telepathic Butterflies have a few standouts like the upbeat - JEN ZORATTI Bonhomie and the fast tempo Sickly and

THE PROJECTOR I DECEMBER 6, 2004 culture 23 Where are they now? They're the brightest in the biz. They're Red River College alumni. Each month, Alana Pona introduces you to a RRC grad making a difference. This month, we introduce you to Yisa Akinbolaji a graduate of RRC's graphic design program.

BY ALANA PONA Although the artist does two to three years so Akinbolaji not update the site himself, could progress to the level of his isa Akinbolaji is selling www.yisatheartist.com he says Canadian classmates. paintings to collectors his Internet business has drawn "He came a long way to get to yaround the world after clients from around the world, the level the other Canadian stu- the young artist discovered the including the U.S., Italy and dents were at," he says. Yisa Akinbolaji and one of his works Internet as a way to show off his London. "We take artists to show them works of art. But it wasn't smooth sailing for how to market their skills and fessor in the faculty of manage- ence and sell (your work) in per- The Nigeria-born artist and the struggling artist, who moved that's where his shortfall was. ment information systems at the son. Most (businesses) are doing graduate of the graphic design to Canada in 1997 to learn how He worked through the curricu- I.H Asper School of Business at a combination," she says. program at Red River College to use computers. He says he lum - it was a struggle for him the University of Manitoba says But despite his growing suc- has seen "mind-blowing" results almost withdrew from his first - but he worked through it," says there are more and more people cess online, Akinbolaji is direct- after he started his personal busi- class in graphic design when his Fawkes. selling their products online. ing his efforts towards children. ness on the web. teacher asked him to push the Fawkes says in the past the `Almost all businesses today "I realized that certain individ- He says that many of his paint- mouse, an instruction that he program started web training in have a presence on the web, uals contributed to make who I ings, taken from personal experi- had never heard of before. January, but they've changed the many have a e-commerce busi- am today. I want to give to youth ences and dreams, sell between "I asked myself stupidly - what curriculum to begin their online nesses on the web as well," she who will become the leaders of the prices of $1,000 to $18,000 is mouse? It's so smart that you web components as early as says. tomorrow," says Akinbolaji in an for large original prints. guys give it that name because it October. The assistant professor says interview at his north end home. "I did not want to present has a tail," he laughs. "We're now doing more stuff advertising for an artist on the "I felt that a lot of youth out that I'm not alive at a time when Brian Fawkes, program coor- online. We didn't do as much as web can potentially broaden there need encouragement," technology is very important," he dinator for the graphic design we do now as far as web training, their market and may reduce he says. "I want professionals says. "My experience at RRC let and digital multimedia technol- but he's taken that and applied costs of holding events like exhi- like myself to help empower the me know that it is a good thing to ogy programs at the college, says it." bitions to display their work. kids." market yourself." he adjusted the program from Mary Brabston, assistant pro- "But for unique works, it may be better to not use the web pres- Toew's triumphs Novel explores Mennonite life explored Manitoba crime

A Complicated Kindness The Last Horse Holdup: The Final Years of the Newhome Gang by Miriam Toews by Peter Schoroedter

BY ALANA PONA was her religion - something Nomi BY DARRYL GUNTHER Winters ends up working with Henry, was confronted with and made fun of a small time hoodlum. The tasks Winters Complicated Kindness, a novel throughout the novel. It was also an et in the Great Depression, Peter performs for Henry, along with Ephraim written by Manitoban author attempt on the author's part to release Schroedter's non-fiction novel is Korts, escalate through the story, starting Aviriam Toews, is a controver- inner demons she may have experi- S both the tale of Peter Winters and with arson, and bootlegging moonshine, sial piece of fiction about the difficulty enced in her life in Steinbach, Man. Ephraim Korts robbery of the Ashern and eventually ending up with the rob- growing up in a Mennonite community - which is coincidentally a Mennonite bank, and an introspective look at the bery of the Ashern bank in December in southern Manitoba. community as well. history and people of an Interlake com- 1934. This book is Toews's third published- Mennos are discouraged from going munity. Murder and assault are a part of the piece, which also includes A Boy of to the city, 40 miles down the road, but The Last Horse Holdup: The Final Years Newhome Gang's business, and eventu- Good Breeding and Summer of My are encouraged to travel of the Newhome Gang reveals a dark ally it extends to Winnipeg, where an ille- Amazing Luck. She to the remotest corners underbelly of the hardworking gal gambling, bootlegging, and prostitu- is an award winning of third world countries pioneers of Newhome, Man, and tion net is established. author and the recent with barrels full of Gideon Peter Winters' struggle to reach The conflict recipient of the Govenor ibles and hairnets. beyond the predetermined des- with his father General's literary award, Simple, dark and satin- tiny of the farm community. drives him to prove and a nominee for the phrases like this one Schroedter, a former Red his worth, and the coveted Giller prize. . ound in the novel are River College student, grew up ambitious goals he The book, in essence, of only Nomi's observa- with the story of Peter Winters once set become is about Nomi Nickel, a ens about her religion, and the Newhome Gang, and tainted as he sinks young girl who takes us ut what are the author's later pursued the matter as a further and further on the journey of her life, wn personal opinions beat reporter for an Interlake into a life of crime. reflecting throughout the bout her fellow church- newspaper. The research he The harsh, relent- book on past and present oers. gathered and the inter- PCS landscape of the experiences with boyfriends, A Complicated views he conducted with Interlake during the friends and loved ones, all of Kindness is a novel remaining eyewitnesses 1930s is a character in which ultimately shape her that can be read on many dif- reveal a story that belongs itself, with the tireless into the teenager she grows into at the ferent levels - stemming from the issue in The Soprano's New Jersey, efforts of the pioneers, end of the novel. of family and relationship problems to not in the small farming community of and the desperation of those The novel is a glimpse into the life religious disorder in a community that, Newhome. men and women to make it through yet of a finicky, angry, adolescent teen- as we see, values the Mennonite religion Peter Winters, the young son of Martin another long winter. ager. Readers are thrown back into their above all things. Winters, grew up in Newhome. Winters Schroedter escalates the action youth, reflecting on all the same things A Complicated Kindness is a twisted was a young man with big ideas, and the throughout the novel, until its unfore- they learned to love but hated as they look at a religion from a perspective that ambition to pursue them. He wanted to seen conclusion. The characters he grew up. In Nomi's case, she's embar- may be controversial among different see the world that is beyond his small portrays are accurate, and the trials and rassed by her father's suits at the beach, audiences. Be prepared for a long night community. consequences they experience are real. her sister's rebellious ways and her on the sofa. After watching his father try to keep Starting and ending in the Manitoba uncle's (referred to as The Mouth) abil- a farm and battle endlessly against an wilderness, it is an unreal story, which ity to traumatize every member of the unforgiving environment, he decides to just happens to be true. community But above all those things leave the farm (after an argument with his father). DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE. CALL 1-888-TAXIGUY. 1•888•TAXIGUY,.