Okay, so it looks like Vic’s not the only college with an active student life. The good people at St. Michael’s College have gotten together and produced their First Annual Sketch Comedy Night and Dinner Theatre: Featuring live comedy and music performances! A dinner and show for $10? Sounds good to me!

When: Tuesday, March 27 and Wednesday, March 28, 2007. Doors at 6:45pm
Where: Father Madden Hall (n Carr Hall, 100 St. Joseph Street) Map here.
Details: Tickets are $10 and are available in the SMCSU office or through Aadila Dosani (facebook) For the menu and more details, see the Facebook event page.

P.S. You might be wondering what the image has to do with the event. I have no idea. I just snatched it from their facebook event page.

Somehow the above expression holds (very) true this week, apparently the local music gods have conspired in our favour. With enough super shows to fill the non-opposable digits on one hand, complaints certainly can’t be made. (more…)

This week in films:
CINEFRANCO FILM FESTIVAL ($7)
The CineFranco Film Festival is running all week with a great list of films and a student price of $7. We have a few film picks.
Thursday
BLADES OF GLORY (free)
Friday
KES (~$8)
THE WILD BUNCH and EL TOPO (free)
Read on for details. (more…)

Finding a place to live in Toronto can be difficult, as any of us who have gone apartment hunting can attest to. That’s why this event is great for any students who have questions about the renting process in Toronto. They have invited a lawyer, Carlos Bernal from Kensington-Bellwoods Community Legal Services, to conduct this workshop on the new Residential Tenancies Act, especially clarifying and answering question for international students

When: Thursday March 29th 2007, Noon (sharp) – 1:45PM
Location: Room 2185, Bahen Centre (30 St. George St.)
Details: A FREE EVENT. LUNCH will be provided. PLEASE RSVP by emailing your name and year of study (undergraduate or graduate) to: vpequity@sac.utoronto.ca, by Monday March 26th

Happy Hunting!

“Maple Organics is family owned and operated,” boasts a banner hanging from the ceiling on a recent visit to Whole Foods. This is one of several adorning the store, profiling farmers and manufacturers of the products they sell. As I continue studying the Maple Organics story, I learn that the family makes and markets their organic ice cream and frozen yoghurt themselves, in addition to milking the cows and growing their feed.

Oh, and I almost forgot: you’re even invited to visit their farm, located just West of Elora.

My only concern is that a 500 mL container of their ice cream retails for $6.39, a hefty premium when you compare it to the cost of an equivalent non-organic, non-local, industrially produced brand. Considering OSAP money doesn’t exactly grow on trees, why pay the premium?

My question was answered last Saturday when I had the pleasure of attending The Real Dirt on Food at Hart House, a full-day conference on food sustainability organized by a group of Environmental Policy and Practice students. As part of their second semester project for ENV320, they took the advice of their professor and, instead of writing an essay, decided to do something that would truly make a difference. The conference, aimed to raise awareness of the controversies surrounding food production, was extremely successful. The tickets were priced to ensure that the event was accessible to all – provided, of course, that they were snatched up early enough; due to popularity, they sold out weeks ahead of time.

More photos after the break.

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Image from Flickr by SMN

It’s tax return season ladies and gents, and that means sweet, sweet tax return money! But there’s just one little snag: you’ve got to work through pages and pages of forms and general headache to get your money. Luckily, all’s not lost. You don’t have to do it on your own. Read on for the list of campus resources that’ll help you with filing your tax return. (more…)

Gather up kids, because it’s story time! Remember the days when you were tightly snuggled in bed and your parents told you bedtime stories? Yeah, neither do I. Regardless, I think there’s something very comfy and romantic about a night of story telling, don’t you think so?

The 29th Toronto Festival of Story Telling kicks off this Friday March 23, 2007 and runs till Sunday April 1. This is an annual festival organized by The Storyteller’s School of Toronto. This year’s theme: 007: Stories of Risk, Romance and Adventure. With stories every evening of the festival, you’re sure to find something that strikes your fancy, be it An Evening of Icelandic Saga: tales of of love, murder and revenge in Viking Iceland!, French Concert: An Evening of Stories from La Belle Province, or From the Edges of Asia: An Evening of Stories from Persia and Siberia.

Read on for highlights of the festival and festival details! (more…)