Here’s another weird editorial type hybrid article thing masquerading as a news piece. I swear I’ll explain myself sometime this weekend… Also, this piece curiously occurs front page beneath the fold and is continued on page two, which I feel is undue placement. Associate News Editor Yukon Damov wrote an actual news piece on the [...]
Here’s my latest “news” piece written for the newspaper. I say “news” because it’s not, strictly speaking, news. Rather, it’s an editorial dressed up with certain trappings of news writing. Sure, I consulted a source and slipped in quotes from him here and there, but the goal of this particular article wasn’t so much to [...]
Hopefully the impressive turnout at yesterday’s first open writer’s meeting of the new year will lead to a more diverse variety of contributors to the newspaper in the coming weeks. It’s been three years since the last truly packed open meeting, and I’m more than happy to see ledes go out to more than just [...]
U of T honours LGBT activists Province celebrates pioneers of gay liberation movement “On 14 October 2011, 15-year-old Jamie Hubley, an openly gay young man, committed suicide after being bullied at school,” said Charles Hill, the first president of the University of Toronto Homophile Association (UTHA), visibly holding back tears. The tragedy of Jamie Hubley [...]
Metaphors in Mechanics Braid offers a masterful blend of inventive gameplay and novel narrative execution Three years ago, independent software developer Jonathan Blow released Braid, a game which at the time was something of a champion for the artistic merits of video game design. Lauded for its striking artistic direction, inventive time manipulation mechanics, and [...]