Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? is an enlightening novel that chronicles the lives of
three strong women over the span of 50 years, linking them through their native ties to India and unique relations to Canada.

I’m definitely suffering from exchange withdrawal.
It’s been just over a month since I landed back in Canada from my seven months abroad in Edinburgh. Like many returned exchange students, I wish I could turn back time.
Since I spent the winter holidays abroad and returned just before second semester started, I didn’t have much time to re-adjust. The transition hasn’t been easy, I have to admit.

Modern Fuel will use their relocation to the Tett Centre as an opportunity for expansion and accessibility.

This year’s Cezanne’s Closet fundraiser brought students and community members together to support Union Gallery.

In renditions of stories, letters and dances, members of Queen’s School of Music showcase their operatic and instrumental talent as part of the Faculty Artist Series.

It’s amazing how much the word “hate” gets thrown around when talking about the NFL.
Super Bowl XLIV — the game’s most recent instalment, played last Sunday in Glendale, Arizona — might as well have been dubbed the “Hate Bowl”.
It’s hard to find two teams who get more animosity directed towards them than the Seattle Seahawks and the NFL champion New England Patriots.

You won’t want to sit down when I tell you the latest health scare, because that’s exactly the problem — sitting.
This unhealthy habit hits close to home for university students who spend many hours a day sitting in lectures or studying at the library.

If you’re planning on running for student government, you may as well plan to sacrifice sleep, school work and any downtime.
Incoming Undergraduate Trustee Jennifer Li lived this reality in the weeks leading up to her victory in last week’s election.
Li, ConEd ’17, described the first period of her campaign as particularly chaotic. After deciding to run on Jan. 6, Li had just 10 days to put together her campaign.

Queen’s Rotaract Club hosted their event “Trumping Poverty Through Euchre” featuring resident student musicians Devan & Khalid.

QHOchella brightened up Clark Hall Pub on Tuesday with friends, conversation and superb music.

Fourth-year fine art student Francesca Pang uses art as a means of emotional expression, and also as a way to let loose and have fun. “The fact that I get to make art is a fun thing to be doing,” Pang said. “And I love the fact that I get to go to my studio and paint in my space and blast music.”

I’ve come across many pictures of stuffed avocado on Pinterest and Instagram, but they’ve never really explained how to make it.

While many of us prep for Tumble and Throwback, a group of Queen’s students spend their Tuesday and Thursday evenings running a soup kitchen.
Good Times Diner is a fully student-run soup kitchen that operates out of St. Paul’s Anglican Church twice a week from 4-7 p.m. The group provides less fortunate members of the Kingston community with delicious hot meals like tacos, shepherd’s pie, beef stroganoff and chili.

You may have heard of the Will Hunter Band before, but you’re not likely to hear that name again.

Vanguard band BlakDenim combines brass instruments with hip-hop beats to create wildly experimental harmonies.

I found serenity buck-naked in a saltwater bathtub.
I hadn’t been searching for any miracle stress remedy when a friend suggested we visit a flotation tank — a lightless pod in which the user floats alone in water — in the waning days of this year’s winter break.
The idea had been spurred by a 2013 VICE documentary featuring the website’s intrepid science editor, who secluded himself with nothing but his own thoughts in a grassroots stab at psychedelic research.