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The Great 20s Sorting: One libero, three camps and no clear winner
Fourth-year libero Oscar Luk dabbles in pubs, run clubs and cafés and says the best place to meet people is wherever your hobbies are.
Jennifer William
3 days ago3 min read


‘Comedy, just like any art of truth-telling, is shattering’: Kelly Lamrock’s Comic Sutra
Kelly Lamrock took the stage at the Comic Sutra on Friday night in a bluish-pink shirt and a full room.
Gisele Gallibois
3 days ago3 min read


'Wish You Were Here': Still mad at the machine
Five decades after its release, Pink Floyd’s album about absence, burnout and corporate greed reads like a description of campus life.
Jennifer William
3 days ago2 min read


Curiosity didn’t kill the cat, it taxidermied it: Typical Relics hits Fredericton
Family business: Abbie Usher and her father, Daryl, take their traveling museum on the road. (Jennifer William/AQ) At Saturday’s Esoterica market in Fredericton, between the dark art and the tattoo artists, one table had a mermaid named Darwin. He isn’t the Disney kind. Darwin is a Fiji mermaid, a sideshow classic in the style P.T. Barnum once exhibited, and he is the favourite piece of Abbie Usher, 23, who runs the traveling museum Typical Relics. “We’re a traveling museum t

Jennifer William
Oct 262 min read


Pumpkin spice, with a side of self-awareness
Marketing or not, the first sip still hits. (Photo credit: Pinterest) Every September, Starbucks and cafés around the globe pull off one of the year’s most impressive marketing stunts. They make us excited to buy something we already know exists. The pumpkin spice latte is back. Cue the Instagram stories, the first-sip selfies and the triumphant announcements that fall has officially begun. Somewhere between the cinnamon, the whipped cream and the familiar white cup, a coffe
Bailey Young
Oct 263 min read


Why we still can’t quit ‘Frankenstein’
A fifth-year history student describes a live-scored screening at the Playhouse, and why the misunderstood monster still resonates.

Jennifer William
Oct 262 min read


Fifty years on the wall: Gallery 78 celebrates a family milestone
Founded in 1976 by James and Inge Pataki, the gallery marked its milestone with a show featuring 50 artists.
Isabella Pacheco Rosales
Oct 262 min read


Fredericton media director brings accessibility into production spaces
Nicholas Hussey, born in 1992, is a Fredericton-based multimedia director who coordinates commercial and nonprofit productions for clients across Canada and overseas while living with ALS. (Credit: Suzanne Shah/AQ) Nicholas Hussey was not meant to be an artist but a soldier. Hussey joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 2012 when he was 19. He left after being injured and later being diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), changing the course of his life. ALS is a pr

Suzanne Shah
Feb 93 min read


Students face transportation challenges as winter sets in
Mohammed Ali Akhtar waits at a slippery Fredericton bus stop as winter conditions slow public transit across the city. (Suzanne Shah/AQ) Winter has long shaped life in New Brunswick, but for students without access to a car, the season increasingly dictates how their days are planned. Those concerns intensified after a Fredericton Transit bus slid into a ditch on Hilton Road last December during icy conditions. “I used to catch [a bus] but now … I’d be late, so I have to go o

Suzanne Shah
Jan 192 min read
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