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Byline: Jonathan Giammaria The Students' Society of McGill University (SSMU) held its biweekly Legislative Council meeting on Feb. 11, where councillors approved a motion to implement a policy for McGill [...]

TV SHOWS 1. The Queen's Gambit Netflix's smash-hit scripted limited series follows Beth Harmon, an enigmatic chess prodigy. The twist? Harmon has had a tranquilizer addiction since she was child, [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria Over the lightly plucked strings of Positions's opening track, 'shut up,' Ariana Grande sings, 'All them demons help me see shit differently / So don't be sad [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria, Ronny Litvack-Katzman, Sophia Gorbounov The first-ever Soup & Science event, held in 2006, was hardly an extravagant affair. Professors and students gathered together in the second-floor lobby [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria Back in February, one month before Montreal's lockdown began, my therapist explained to me that I was in a perpetual state of distress, constantly scanning my surroundings [...]

Byline: Angelica Voutsinas, Julian Miller, Deana Korsunsky, Jonathan Giammaria, Erika Mackenzie With the start of virtual classes, it feels like we've been jolted out of a limbo. Still, with Netflix [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria Around 100 members of the McGill community rallied just north of the Roddick Gates on Aug. 1 to push for the removal of the statue commemorating James [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria Lady Gaga has always been beset by her public image. Whether it's the bombastic music videos and otherworldly costumes of her debut, or the earnest, style-shifted music [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria Before COVID-19 forced the shutdown of public institutions and non-essential services, my life followed a stable routine. On most days, if I wasn't already gone for an [...]

Byline: Brianna Cheng, Joey Caplan, Jonathan Giammaria, Lydie Hua Reading Week opens up doors of possibilities for McGill students: It can lead to a tropical vacation, a time of productivity [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria 'CANCER,' Michael Haze's second track on his debut EP MICKEY, opens with the crackle of a vinyl record followed by a spare guitar riff. The melody is [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria A university lecture or a book club: By way of discussion, both bring the personal act of reading into an academic or social realm. However, these cultural [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria Urban redevelopment looms over Montreal with a constancy that borders on parody. Whether these changes impact a single street or an entire neighbourhood: The threat of an [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria Hidden away behind a yellow door, deep in a basement of brick and mortar, McGill held its first poetry slam of the semester. Hosted at The Yellow [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria Despite the biting cold of a resurgent Montreal winter, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly saw a packed house on Jan. 17. The crowd was eager to hear Kai [...]

Byline: Vanessa Baron, Joey Caplan, Jonathan Giammaria, Patrick Gilroy, and Katia Innes Winter break is all about recovering from finals, spending time with your family, and updating your Goodreads and [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria In the world of prestigious literary awards, writers of fiction and poetry often occupy most headlines across major media platforms. Many awards, however, broaden their focus to [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria Mainstream culture often seems omnipresent--but every mainstream contains lively subcultures, and in the case of publishing, that subculture is zines. Montreal's Expozine, which took place Nov. 16-17, [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria, Katia Innes, Patrick Gilroy, Vanessa Barron On a rainy Sunday evening, The McGill Tribune Arts & Entertainment team convened for one purpose and one purpose only: To [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria The Visual Arts Visuels' exhibition space at Concordia University may appear modest in its size and spare curation, but the industrial, L-shaped room presents artwork with the [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria Canada's contemporary literary scene is on the brink of something special. On Oct. 4, La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly converted its tight space into a stage, [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria When La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly opened its doors to celebrate the release of Mile End Portraits on Sept. 20, the normally quiet children's bookstore quickly [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria, Joey Caplan, Abeer Almahdi With classes already in full swing, the season for carefree media consumption has come and gone. From here on out, reading will be [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria The archetype of the wandering artist is a familiar one, emphasizing that the freedom of the road, and the directionless travel that follows is a catharsis that [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria Continuing the trend of haute-couture exhibitions like Balenciaga, Master of Couture at the McCord Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts debuted Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, a landmark [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria In an entertainment market dominated by superhero blockbusters and binge-worthy streaming services, audiences often overlook the fantasy genre's literary counterparts. On March 5, Dimitri Nasrallah, author of [...]

Byline: Sophie Brzozowski, Jonathan Giammaria, Tess Buckley, Katia Innes Two months into the semester, reading for pleasure seems like a long-forgotten pastime. To some, the thought of willingly digesting more [...]

Byline: Jonathan GiammariaTraditionally, a stage reading is a stripped-down version of an author's work. With no set design and minimal effort put toward costuming or props, performance and plot are [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria/True Crime/ is labyrinthine. The show, which played at the Centaur from Jan. 8-27, recounts indie-singer-turned-true-crime-writer Torquil Campbell's real-life investigation into his con man doppelgänger, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter. [...]

Byline: Jonathan GiammariaOn Jan. 11, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal held a series of events as part of their current Françoise Sullivan retrospective, including a panel and a separate [...]

Byline: Deana Korsunsky, Jonathan Giammaria, Leo StilingerArriving home for winter break in the typical post-exam fugue tends to make the inevitable holiday burnout all the more severe. Everyone knows that [...]

Byline: Jonathan Giammaria To the uninitiated, haute couture might conjure up images of haughty snobs sporting wildly-impractical clothing or ankle-breaking six-inch stilettos. The elusive nature of high fashion makes it [...]