The Gateway - The University of Alberta's official campus media …
WEBThe Gateway is the official student publication at the University of Alberta, founded in 1910. The magazine is published once a month during the academic year (September-April) by the Gateway Student Journalism Society (GSJS), a student-run, autonomous, apolitical not-for-profit organization, operated in accordance with the Societies Act of Alberta.
What's with millennials' obsession with tattoos? - The Gateway
WEBMar 28, 2017 · The United States Navy has changed its body art policies to allow for more and larger tattoos in the hopes of drawing in more millennial recruits. In 2010 about 40 per cent of millennials had at least one tattoo and that number has increased in the last six years. Young Instagram and high fashion runway models are often spattered with tiny ...
U of A and partners announce $10 million campaign to fund …
WEBNov 21, 2023 · On November 14, World Diabetes Day, the University of Alberta, the Alberta Diabetes Foundation (ADF), and the Diabetes Research Institute of Canada (DRIFCan) announced a $10 million campaign and partnership called Defeating Diabetes.. Speaking at the Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Research Innovation, Peter Senior, director of the U of A Alberta Diabetes Institute (ADI), said the campaign will ...
Play Review: Indecent - The Gateway
WEBDec 6, 2023 · Indecent is a play written by Paula Vogel, directed by Ben Smith, a Master’s of Fine Arts directing candidate at the University of Alberta.It’s a hilarious and heartbreaking story brought to life by an incredibly talented cast and crew. A play about a play, Indecent explores The God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch, and the challenges it faced.Many people weren’t ready for Asch’s radical ...
The Heavy Heavy set to release debut album
WEBAug 7, 2024 · Every year, the Edmonton Folk Music Festival attracts some of folk music’s best emerging acts from all over the world. Brighton, United Kingdom (U.K.)-based band The Heavy Heavy are no exception.. With their debut album One of a Kind set to release September 6 — less than a month after their August 11 set at Folkfest’s main stage — The Heavy Heavy, led by Georgie Fuller and Will Turner ...
Arc isn’t worth the hassle … yet - The Gateway
WEBFeb 3, 2024 · The days of fumbling with ticket books are now coming to an end. Paying for transit in and around Edmonton has entered the 21st century with Arc, the new card-based fare payment system. You tap your card every time you ride, which the system uses to determine your fare. The city have gone full steam ahead with this transition.
Short story review: Stephen King’s “The Jaunt” - The Gateway
WEBOct 6, 2019 · How do you explain the realities of scientific progress to young children? Mark Oates, a father of two, wrangles with this question as he tells his children how teleportation was discovered in Stephen King’s short story, The Jaunt. The Jaunt takes place hundreds of years in the future, in an alternate version of reality where humans discovered teleportation (or “jaunting”) in the 1980s.
BREAKING: U of A closes Coutts Library; marks second library …
WEBJun 4, 2020 · The University of Alberta has closed the Herbert T. Coutts Library found within the Education building. The permanent closure of Coutts Library was announced by blog post on June 4. The library was the primary resource library for both the faculties of education and kinesiology, sport, and recreation (KSR).
Movie Review: Best Sellers - The Gateway
WEBSep 23, 2021 · Art, according to Best Sellers director Lina Roessler, “is a different way of breathing.” This is made apparent in Roessler’s directorial feature film debut Best Sellers.. Best Sellers follows Harris Shaw (Micheal Caine) and Lucy Standbridge (Aubrey Plaza) as they butt heads on a book tour that’s meant to save Lucy’s company from going into the outstretched hands of Jack Sinclair ...
‘Into Light’ and ‘I Am Skylar:’ Navigating what it means to be trans
WEBNov 24, 2021 · The sky’s the limit when you step into the light of your own truth. Sheona McDonald’s Into Light (2020) and Rachel Bower’s I Am Skylar (2019) — two narratives about the lives of transgender kids and their families — join the National Film Board of Canada’s (NFB) selection of LGBTQ2S+ films. These documentaries, 19 minutes for the former and 15 minutes for the latter, are made ...