A cumulative review of the six QPOP festival performances throughout the Grad Club, Clark Hall Pub and The Underground on Friday night.

Russell Peters brought his notorious humour to Kingston’s K-Rock Centre on Sunday to an impressive crowd of over 600 Kingston residents and students.

As part of Mental Illness Awareness Week, Lifestyle is featuring personal stories from Queen’s students each day from Oct. 6-10. We’ll be continuing the initiative throughout the year with monthly stories. If you’re interested in submitting a story, please email journal_lifestyle@ams.queensu.ca.
A few months ago, the acronym MIAW meant nothing to me. To most people, I’m sure it’s still just as meaningless.

As part of Mental Illness Awareness Week, Lifestyle is featuring personal stories from Queen’s students each day from Oct. 6-10. We’ll be continuing the initiative throughout the year with monthly stories. If you’re interested in submitting a story, please email journal_lifestyle@ams.queensu.ca.

With the summer-like weather we’ve been enjoying this past week, it’s hard to imagine that the days of wind and snow are quickly approaching.
For most, that means staying indoors with a cup of tea and readings (okay let’s be honest, tea and Netflix). Trips to the grocery store through the ice and cold are just out of the question.

With the National Hockey League season just around the corner, there’s always interest of who the stars of tomorrow will be. Many eyes have been on 17-year-old Canadian Connor McDavid, while others focus on American Jack Eichel as two of the top teenage prospects going forward.

Julia Mitchell is in Barbados on exchange this year. She’ll be sharing her experiences every three weeks as a regular contributor to Lifestyle.
Over the past month, I’ve settled into somewhat of a new routine here at my new home at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. Exchange has proven to be a lot of highs and lows — sometimes I’m so happy and thankful to be able to study and travel in this amazing and unique part of the world, but other times I really miss my family and life in Canada in general.

Coco Chanel once said, “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous”. With her fiery, wind-swept hair, and elegant poise, these are words Heather Evans, an English professor at Queen’s, clearly lives by.
Never one for pants, Professor Evans keeps it classy with her pencil skirts and clean, straight lines. Upgrading simple, timeless black-and-white ensembles with distinctive handmade jewellery, a classic pair of heels, and accented scarves, she maintains an effortless, refined style.

It seems as though we’re constantly bombarded not only by the latest ‘superfood’ that we should be eating (acai, chard, coconut oil, etc.), but also with the newest ‘evil food.’ The most recent of which is none other than our favourite sweetener — sugar.
Recent studies have shown that there’s increasing evidence that sugar consumption has ties to heart disease, diabetes and obesity, some of the biggest names in the health care world.

You’ve probably encountered everyone’s newest, least-favourite mode of communication: the bragplain.
A relative of the humble brag, the bragplain occurs when an individual construes his or her own success as inconvenient in order to gloat without seeming arrogant.

What happens over the course of a week? You tidy the kitchen, play with your dog, call your mom.
But even in an uneventful week — grocery shopping, laundry, maybe lunch with a friend — one’s entire universe may shift.
Best-selling Canadian author Ann Marie MacDonald’s latest work Adult Onset is the story of a week in the life of Mary Rose MacKinnon, or “Mister”, a play on her initials MR.

19.6 million views in 24 hours.
With these numbers, Nicki Minaj’s music video “Anaconda” shattered Vevo’s record for amount of clicks within a day of release.
The video centres on Minaj and her fellow dancers’ twerking buttocks as an assertion of female sexuality.
But the assertion of female sexuality is by no means the issue at hand. In Minaj’s case, it’s the method of assertion that’s harmful. It hypersexualizes the black female form.

Queen’s Poetry Slam has seen a rise in participants this school year, which founder Danielle D’Entremont finds encouraging.

A good artist will often cope with the everyday struggles of life by channeling their experiences, feelings and thoughts into their music, and that’s exactly what singer-songwriter Nick Faye does.

Involving eight different bodies and featuring 15 different bands, organizing QPOP Music Festival for the first time was no easy feat.

It’s all about passion, soul, and hard rock and roll for Burlington-band The Creepshow with their most recent full-length album They All Fall Down.

As the inaugural concert of the Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts, Music 4 Eyes and Ears set the bar high in terms of creativity and innovation.