Last Sunday, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue took to the Chan Centre's Shun Concert Hall stage for a performance that was best encapsulated as “fucking awesome.” The Chan Centre's 2016/2017 season has started with a bang.
Brock Commons has a fire rating — the amount of time a building is supposed to withstand a fire before its structural integrity is compromised — that is about two hours, which is typical for a high-rise building.
The architecture firm behind the Tall Wood building is one whose name might not be instantly recognizable to most campus residents, but Acton Ostry’s presence is one which is nonetheless influential in shaping the environments of UBC’s future.
In order for Brock Commons to succeed, it not only had to set a new bar for wood buildings, but also develop new methods for construction which streamlined the process and reduced the actual time spent on site.
When most students left for the summer break, all that there was to see of the new Brock Commons Phase One, were two elevator shafts rising up next to Gage – ugly and unremarkable.When most students left for the summer break, all th
This Sunday at 7 p.m., the Chan Centre will play host to an artist whose talent and style consistently defies genre and convention. Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue are neither jazz nor pop, rap nor hip hop, but rather everything in between.
Tickets to the Harvest Festival are available online and cost $22 for students, $30 for faculty/staff/UNA residents and alumni, and $35 for the general public. Sadly, wine will only be available for purchase by the bottle.
So for all of you illiterate rabble who do not know how to interpret the art that apparently defines the times that you live in, I'm here to bring you up to speed on this art you half-glance at when you are rushing to class, you uneducated fool!
It was another immensely successful month for poetry. With so many great submissions, we had a lot of trouble narrowing everything down to only seven winners. Without further delay, here are the winners of the August poetry competition:
Welcome to student life and the inevitable mass of stress, work and late nights that comes with it. By the time you leave your first round of midterms, most of you will have settled into a solid modus operandi to get you through the day.
Since your AMS executives have now been working for the entire summer, we asked each one about their goals for the school year, what they accomplished over the summer, and their strategy for student engagement.
The lineup for the 33nd AMS Welcome Back BBQ has been announced, with headliner Earl Sweatshirt taking the helm along with Autograf, Alvvays, Humans with MY!GAY!HUSBAND! (Glory Days). Tickets go on sale September 2 at 9am.
Once more the Vancouver Fringe Festival will be taking over the city from September 8 to 18, saturating every stage with the wild, the dramatic and the bizarre. Going to Fringe can be a daunting task for those uninitiated.
The published the building's frame and exterior are not yet complete, which means those wishing to rubberneck still have the opportunity to witness the final structural elements of the world's largest wooden building being placed.
Beginning this Monday, anyone looking to enjoy a nice week of relaxation before the impending start of the semester need look no further than Main Mall for some fun, free events to enjoy the fine weather with.