Want to impress your housemates, family or significant other with your amazing cooking skills, or at least fake it? Here’s a simple, yet visually intricate dish that will leave your guests and taste buds wanting more.

From proposals to top secret bagels, Common Ground (CoGro) is a big part of typical campus life for many students at Queen’s.
Five different people wave to Camilla James, head manager of CoGro, as she arrives to The Brew, an offshoot of CoGro located in the JDUC. Camilla waves back with a big smile.
Here’s everything we all have been wondering about CoGro:

Queen’s Vagabond’s production of Julius Caesar, while capably performed, stands as an unfortunate example of ambition outweighing affect.

Literature’s influence is prominent in the music of duo The Pack A.D.

For Dean Povinsky, of Toronto-based band Wildlife, Kingston is familiar ground.

This Saturday, the anthemic rock of Toronto-based band Highs will be concentrated within the beer-soaked walls of Clark Hall Pub.

Things are accelerating quickly for Dear Rouge.

Food Network Canada’s Chef Michael Smith’s sustainable approach to food might reach more locally than you think.

When you first start looking for cruelty-free products, it can be a little overwhelming. Not only do you start to realize just how many products you use – hair and facial care, makeup, etc. – but also how many companies may not be completely transparent about whether they test on animals. They do so either by hiding their parent companies, or selling their products in countries, such as China, where animal testing is required by law.

When was the last time you read a short story — not for class, but for fun?
If you can’t think of an answer, or if that answer happens to be “never”, you’re missing out on the wealth of talented Canadian short story writers.

With this semester marking its second year, Queen’s University Poker Club (QPC) is relatively new but offers more than a chance at luck, but also at charity. QPC, which is comprised of a six-member executive team, organizes monthly tournaments, where they donate their proceeds to select on-campus charity groups.
I sat down with one of the co-presidents of QPC, Ian Attema, ArtSci ’15, to learn more about ways in which poker is more than a game, but also a place of community:

Long after the hullabaloo fades from the upcoming performance by A Tribe Called Red, Aboriginal issues will continue to be discussed by a few dedicated community members.

A Tribe Called Red is making progress.

When Sam McKegney saw the dearth of academic conversation on Aboriginal masculine identities, he started one himself.

Long before Juan Pablo charmed us on the past season of The Bachelor, viewers were tuning into CBS to watch Jeff Probst announce the first-ever winner of Survivor: Borneo.

Award-winning Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor’s A Beautiful View is, at its simplest, an exploration of friendship. Beyond that, it’s a view of all the little events, coincidence, and choices that make up life.

Much to my mother’s chagrin, I bite my nails.