Age of Geeks: New Android comes to life with fresh look, features

It’s arrived early: we’ve already got a look at Android L before it’s widely available for consumers. Google wants to attract the developers, and that’s one way to do it. Android L, also known as “Lollipop,” is here: the latest Nexus devices ship with this version of Android installed. According to sources at androidpolice.com, the […]

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Booze Clues: Riding high with Wheelies

Wheelies is a motorcycle shop/cafe that opened in 2013, and many friends of mine have raved about the food, drinks, and atmosphere. I never went until last week because of its location at 2620 Rock Bay Avenue; I live and work downtown, so I wasn’t prepared to bus to an area that is deemed “seedy” […]

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Bite Me: Union Pacific a standout café

With just a few weeks left in the fall semester, students are buckling down to complete essays, projects, and endless midterms. Right now it feels overwhelming and stressful; plus, it’s hard to find the perfect spot to study with the full computer labs and library. So I’m going to let you know about a little […]

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Lit Matters: Fact-fiddling Annie Dillard helped us see ourselves differently

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” So said Annie Dillard, an American writer most famous for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a non-fiction narrative about a year spent living in the mountains of Virginia. The writing style, infused with poetic descriptions of insects, frogs, mountains, and weather, became instantly […]

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Downtown Mischief’s community

Some of the best bands start as people just jamming together. In the case of Downtown Mischief, a local funk/rap band that’s been creating beats and sharing their soulful rhythms over the past few years, jamming is how it all began. “We met through jam parties,” Jameson Daniels, one of the band’s main singers, says. […]

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New Music Revue: Recent round of Led Zeppelin reissues reminds of rock relevance

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV Houses of the Holy (Atlantic Records) 5/5 A perfect 5/5 rating? Sure: these are reissues of two of the best rock albums ever created. To help clarify things, we’ve provided a step-by-step walkthrough of the thought process that went down during the listening process. It’s not easy, as discussed during […]

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New Patrick Lane poetry anthology difficult, with few rewards

An anthology by Canadian poet Patrick Lane, Washita’s narrative stumbles laboriously like a circus bear on fire. It effectively embraces the disjointed reminiscence of old age, groping at limbs of sentimentality I usually reserve for commercials featuring glassy-eyed dogs and Sarah McLachlan. The anthology is meant as a disjointed autobiography, transcending personal experiences to contemplate […]

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