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Burnout RevengeMicrosoft XboxFinally, a game that rewards recklessness! If you have a penchant for destruction and don’t want a criminal record, Burnout Revenge is dynamite. The object of this super-fast, arcade-style racing game is to take out your opponents at any cost. Although purists of the racing genre will cringe at the gravity-defying physics of […]

Trauma Center: Second OpinionNintendo WiiI’ll tell you this much—I’ve never had throat polyps and I never want them. They look disgusting. Yuck. Forget bedside manners, kid, your throat is gross. Not to worry though, we’re going to fix you right up here. I am simply going to put you under, open you up and suction […]

Guitar HeroSony PlayStation 2Guitar Hero is a rhythm-based game like Dance Dance Revolution and Amplitude. The game comes with a half-scale guitar with five buttons on its neck, a whammy bar and “string” to pluck when prompted. The notes scrolling towards you correspond to the five buttons on the neck. Points are awarded for timing […]

Shadow of the ColossusSony PlayStation 2OK, so I didn’t actually play this one, but I watched the whole thing one cold and hung-over winter Sunday and it was beautiful. There is little I can do to convey the comfort I felt watching this little warrior as he ventured through the exquisitely designed landscapes en route […]

Civilization IVPCCivilization is the flagship strategy game series and each new offering improves on its predecessor. World domination is at the game’s heart, but it’s the means, rather than the end, that matters. In Civilization IV you choose the time, the place and the culture you want to lead. If Napoleon is your guy, then […]

Grand Theft Auto: San AndreasSony PlayStation 2The latest installment in the Grand Theft Auto series outdoes its predecessors in every way. You can expect to get 30 to 40 hours of strong, character-based gang fighting with style to spare, fantastic dialogue and storylines. Spanning three west-coast cities, the maps are expansive and the soundtrack—just like […]

Legend of Zelda: The Minish CapGame Boy AdvanceThe bird’s-eye perspective characteristic to all Zelda GBA games is just right for the kind of dungeon scavenging and problem solving required for The Minish Cap. There are six dungeons to explore as well as a complex home base, so your progress is relatively easy to measure. Although […]

“If you’re going to be a feminist, you’re going to pee right here with the rest of us. Standing up,” one taunting co-worker told Sandra Alfoldy. It was the dead of winter in the interior of British Columbia. She was the only woman among a group of eight men working for the Minister of Agriculture, […]

Mary E. Black Gallery (1061/1096 Marginal) Start the day at the south end of the waterfront with The New Cartography of Craft: Charting a Course from Regional to Global. Immerse in every imaginable craft practice in one room. Sally Ravindra’s rounded pottered forms (vases and other vessels), Maria Rakel’s clothing shot through and shaped with […]

The 13th Floor Pottery Lisa-Marie Campbell’s wares—toasting glasses, teapots and mugs, trays and bowls—draw on distant celebrations such as Day of the Dead, which she witnessed on trips south. “They had those incredible shrines all over the place and those absolutely bizarre little skeletons done up with flowers and hats,” Campbell says of sights and […]