If you were diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening illness, would you tell anyone?

MasterChef, the biggest culinary show in the world, pitting home cooks against each other, has finally come to Canada.
However, this isn’t a show to be watched exclusively by food connoisseurs or reality TV junkies. Ogling at food, both regional, national and even global cuisines, has always held my interest, and will sure hold yours too. Add heated drama in a high-stakes competition with a title and $100,000 on the line, and you’ve got some serious entertainment.

Your hair-cleaning regime is about to get a whole lot simpler. You can go au naturel – without the high price of beauty aisle products. Commercial products are also often laden with chemicals. Try out a few of our easy solutions for hydrated, moisturized locks:
Coconut banana hair mask
Ingredients:
¼ cup of coconut milk
2 bananas
1 teaspoon of honey
2 tablespoons of coconut oil

Reading Week may be over, but I’m not ready to sink into a studying funk just yet. This easy recipe will keep those studying blues at bay, especially with a delicious, sugary glaze and juicy blueberries oozing out of this fluffy, soft dessert!
This recipe is perfect to wind down after a long day of classes or saved for some weekend fun – read: stress baking. While most homemade bread or sweet roll recipes usually need two rises and a lot of waiting, this recipe only requires one rise.

On a typical night, it takes less than 30 minutes – sometimes 15 minutes – for shelters around Kingston to have trays of unconsumed food delivered from Queen’s cafeterias.
Soul Food, comprised of an 11-member executive team, organizes the delivery logistics and picks up leftover food from all three campus dining halls, located at Jean Royce Hall, Leonard Hall and Ban Righ Hall. They supply shelters such as Dawn House Women’s Shelter, In From the Cold Emergency Shelter, Ryandale Shelter for the Homeless or the Kingston Youth Shelter.

While many dream seekers shift to big cities in the hopes of making it big, Old Man Luedecke had another idea.

Nova Scotian singer-songwriter Old Man Luedecke’s latest release, the three-song EP I Never Sang Before I Met You, finds him collaborating with Canadian musician Joel Plaskett to great effect.

Next Friday’s show at the Grad Club will be a homecoming for Seoul.

Visual Bloom: Cumulative Fragmentation brings together the work of artists Brian Hoad and James Puffer to present an expansive view of Canada through a collection of photographic collages.

Teagan McLaren is taking the music world by storm through her sweet country vocals and soulful lyrics.

In the attempt to define ourselves, we also restrict ourselves.

Valentine’s Day is all about celebrating love, so this year why not celebrate your love
for yourself?

Staying at home this Reading Week? Take an imaginary trip around the world instead.
Jonas Jonasson’s novel The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared allows you to travel to places like Sweden, Russia, China, the Himalayas or even North Korea without leaving the comfort of your favourite reading chair.

The Coen brothers’ latest work Inside Llewyn Davis successfully attempts to bring to life the folk-music revivalist movement of the early 1960s that was most famously centered in New York’s Greenwich Village.

Vancouver’s Dan Bejar, more famously known as Destroyer, came to the Grad Club Saturday night for a sold-out solo acoustic set.

After a workshop at Nipissing and before a house show in town, Craig Cardiff will be returning to Clark Hall for another intimate affair.

We live during exciting times. The entire globe is connected via an invisible online network, the Curiosity rover roams the surface of Mars and we have the technology to print a house in 20 hours.

Lately I’ve been drawn to vegan treats. Maybe it’s because I’m trying to stay on this healthy streak, but regardless of the reason, I’m glad I found some vegan recipes that will satisfy my cravings.
These chocolate almond peanut butter protein truffles are actually so delicious, and I love munching on them. I made a couple as a test and I ended up eating all three before they were even completely set.
I know vegan recipes tend to have ingredients that are sometimes uncommon and hard to find, so I modified it to make this recipe more accessible.

To write effectively, you first have to be bad in order to be good.

Artists have a responsibility to challenge and inspire people, and to engage communities in
creative dialogue.