Introducing Skullspace
Straddling the grey space between programming club, science lab and artist’s collective, SkullSpace is Winnipeg’s first and only hackerspace. Founded by three University of Manitoba…
January 2011
Science Opinions
There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the “discovery” of supposedly arsenic-based bacteria that NASA published in early December. Even respectable media outlets have touted…
Bringing Strindberg’s dreams to life
Every year, Winnipeg’s Master Playwright Festival honours a playwright whose work has been significant to the craft and inspiring to audiences and fellow playwrights alike….
Unnecessary Review
Holy shit you guys, I have something pretty special to talk about. In recent years popular media has evolved from standard-def to hi-def, then hi-def…
More guns, less whimsy
The Green Hornet has suffered from the expectations it created. While the film is — as I write this — the highest grossing currently in…
Recital probe
Classical musicians from the University of Manitoba’s faculty of music are trying to change the way we consume music by performing outside of organized orchestral…
Five Questions
Five Questions is a continuing column in which we pose a different artist the same five crucial questions. One: The Manitoban: What substance or activity…
Dude, bro
The first major comedic release of 2011 is Ron Howard’s The Dilemma. Despite being marketed as a buddy film in the same vein as 2009’s…
Thick smoke and pineapple juice
I sit there, in the dimly lit dive bar that foreigners, such as myself, have come to known as a sort of English speaking safe…
Theo speaks
Normally, when someone experiences the type of trauma that has come to punctuate the career of Theoren Fleury, it is not typical that they go…