The institutions of café and gallery go so well together that many small towns have combined the two, ensuring that no roadtripper can stop to use the facilities and consume a homemade donut without...

Catfish’s tagline is “don’t let anyone tell you what it is .” Along those lines, Eric Eisenberg of cinemablend.com warned, “Sitting down in the theater, you’re truly better off knowing as little about it...

The Manitoban Musical Atlas of Popular Music is a sporadically-published guide to the export-friendly pop music of the world outside England and North America. Society Iceland’s musical society is more closely knit than its sweaters. Few...

Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil: Afterlife and Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis’ Machete both opened this month and both are stupid. Why then, has Machete achieved an honourable 72 per cent approval rating on...

There was a time when even Starbucks, now fast becoming the exclusive domain of sugar-crazed teenagers, was filled with safe but tasteful music. When I worked at one in 2004, I heard Ray Charles,...

A new arts centre in Winnipeg’s North End hopes to improve the lives of that community’s members. The Selkirk Avenue North End Arts Centre (NEAC) offers drop-in art programs hosted by professional artists for...

From June 3-19, Stockholm Sweden celebrated Crown Princess Victoria’s marriage to her personal trainer Daniel Westling, with a festival of the arts called “LOVE Stockholm 2010.” If financial circumstances, scheduling or a no-fly...