Author: Lee Hurley

Lee Hurley is a fourth-year undergraduate student studying Communications and Media Studies. A self-proclaimed "expert" on local music scenes, they're passionate about media theory, music, film, art, and, in general, filling the gap in arts coverage within our province. Lee is usually haunting the Communications wing of the arts building or blasting painstakingly curated playlists in the Muse office, and they're incredibly honoured to take on the role of Managing Editor for the 2025-2026 editorial year. Lee is reachable at managing@themuse.ca
Graduate students have decided to keep their student union representation in an online vote. Out of a total 440 votes, 244 voted against dissolution and 157 voted in favour. The vote was prompted by a petition...
Max Steffan, otherwise known as Bread Clip, self-produces what he calls “avant-garde Atlantic power pop” from his bedroom in St. John's. If Bread Clip’s recent EP, No Matter The Time, is any indication, avant-garde Atlantic power...

The Canadian media renaissance continues with Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie

If you could time-travel back to 2008 Toronto in an RV powered by a discontinued drink that looks like a lava lamp with boba...

GSU’s AGM adjourned early, dissolution vote pushed to April

The Graduate Students' Union (GSU) Annual General Meeting had been planned to address proposed fee increases and the petition for dissolution. It adjourned early...

GSU and CFS respond to debt crisis ahead of dissolution vote

The Graduate Students’ Union (GSU) has issued another statement addressing common questions amid a petition raised by TAUMUN executive calling for a vote on...

OPINION: CHMR isn’t perfect, but voting to close it would be irrational 

MUNSU has recently announced that after surveying students about their use of MUNSU-run services, its executive committee unanimously voted to recommend the discontinuation of...

Muse-ic Reviews: Fairweather, LFB, John Moran & DOBERMAN

*This article first appeared in The Muse’s 75th Anniversary Print Supplement magazine, published January 2026. Four Songs — Fairweather Power pop/punk is alive and well in St....

GSU says dissolution would end health insurance coverage

The Graduate Student’s Union (GSU) has responded to the petition put forward by the TAUMUN calling for a vote on its dissolution.  The petition calls...

‘A clean slate’: TAUMUN puts forth petition to dissolve GSU

Graduate Students may soon have a chance to vote for the dissolution of their union, which is in at least $2 million of debt...

Collected Pulp talks nostalgia and media ownership

*This article first appeared in The Muse’s 75th Anniversary Print Supplement magazine, published January 2026. Self-proclaimed 'conduit' for books, Josh Hutchings, runs curated secondhand haven Collected...

‘Not a porno magazine’: The Muse’s sexy and controversial past

“Vulgarity is neither fashionable nor intellectual,” claimed a blistering letter to the Editor in a February 1991 issue of The Muse.   This was in direct...

‘Majored in The Muse’: Michael Connors on cultivating his career, finding himself, and finding love at MUN’s student paper

*This article first appeared in The Muse's 75th Anniversary Print Supplement magazine, published January 2026. “I started at MUN in 1994, and I walked...

OPINION: ‘It’s not that deep’ is an epidemic

A near-zombie apocalypse is sweeping the nations in the form of a media literacy crisis. Nowadays, everyone seems to be staring at their screens dead-eyed,...

The RPM Challenge: Four weeks to make some noise

If you only had 28 days to make an album, EP, or single, what would you do? This is a question that participants of the...

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