The tutoring app Nimbus has been implemented for use by NAIT, and NAIT Students' Association (NAITSA) and is making the process of tutoring more attractive to students. Alessandra Medeiros, the Service Hub Coordinator for NAITSA, hopes the new program will alleviate...
NAIT Students Will Be The First to Use Arc, ETS’s Electronic Fare System
After a successful pilot run this summer, ETS’ new electronic fare payment system, ‘Arc’, will be used by NAIT students through their one AT NAIT cards. All students must upload a new photo to the one AT NAIT website. You will receive pick-up or delivery options in...
An Ease Back Into Live Theatre At Found Festival
Found Festival returned to Edmonton July 8 to 11 for its tenth annual run. After a mostly virtual 2020 festival, the organizers and performers were excited to be back in person, creating intimate artistic exchanges in unexpected places. In Puppet Pub Crawl, created by...
The Shuffle: Pride Edition
It’s Pride Month, and as we celebrate these incredible 2SLGBTQ+ musicians, I also want to highlight why we must have Pride month - because queer people are still routinely marginalized. how to dress as human by Laura Les Laura Les is one half of hyperpop duo 100 gecs....
Thou Art Here’s Hamlet in Isolation: Six Unique Renditions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Set During The Modern Plague
A local theatre company is re-envisioning Hamlet in a virtual setting, taking it on as a one-time, lone-actor adaptation exploring different gender roles, running every Friday until June 25. Each rendition was devised by six director-actor partnerships and is inspired...
Pseudo-Antigone’s Hyperpop album explores equal parts pandemic isolation and community collaboration
Edmonton’s Simone A Medina Polo, AKA pseudo-antigone, released a 15-track hyperpop album on May 7, Into the Void of Infinite Sadness. Hyperpop is a genre usually characterized by maximalist beats, exaggerated synths and pitched up auto-tuned vocals. The genre shares...
The Shuffle: 420
Everyone knows music sounds better after a big bowl of...salad… This playlist contains all the jams a good shesh needs. Addiction by Doja Cat A lot of the songs on this list are like this one: rich and robust sounding with a lot of rumbly bass. Pair that with some...
Edmonton-grown pot hits shelves
Palm Gardens, a locally founded licensed cannabis producer, will have their products on shelves this spring after cultivating for a year and a half. Chase Elliott, Co-founder, Operations Manager, and Responsible Person of Palm Gardens, started researching legal weed...
What It’s Like To Be A Sugar Baby: “Hard and not always fun”
Caitlin, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, started ‘sugaring’ in January 2020. Like many sugar babies, she was a student struggling for cash and figured going on a few dates would be a quick way to make money. “I actually met my first sugar daddy on...
Immigrant Turns Love of Music Into Career
It’s a Friday evening. The living room of a grandmother of six and a music teacher has been transformed into a live music setting. Friends and family curl up on the couches, cupping mugs of coffee and tea and the odd glass of wine. Her scrappy dog Ramsey is relocating...