October 2011


Sound Off

Sound Off is a continuing column in which we pose a different artist the same crucial questions. Sheldon Birnie is the lead singer of the…


Gotta love October!

Canadian poet Bliss Carman once wrote, “There is something in October sets the [ . . . ] blood astir.” There seems to be plenty…


Movin’ on up

If passing by the stadium construction site on University Crescent and seeing a new section of the stadium going up makes you a tad giddy,…


Bison athlete profile

The Bison women’s soccer team came home from their Sept. 24-25 road trip in Regina with their first wins of the season. Both wins were…


Speak for yourself

September of 2005, Neil Strauss’ The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick-up Artists becomes a New York Times best seller. The book follows Strauss’s…


Travel-logging

In Guatemala’s north lies the greatest treasure of one of the most magnificent cultures of all time. Tikal National Park is a collection of awe-inspiring…



listening in

This is the Wilco album I’ve been waiting for. This is the one where they take everything they do well, through every phase of their…


Nuit Blanche stories

I have been to the Winnipeg Art Gallery only three times in my life before Saturday night. I can say with absolute confidence that Nuit…