Like most people, I enjoy escaping to elaborately constructed fantasy worlds. I totally identify with Max, the protagonist of Maurice Sendak's iconic 1963 picture book Where the Wild Things Are. Who doesn't? Seriously, how...

The leaves rust and the sky turns white like clay. With heavy resignation, we consign our Chip & Pepper wetwear and cut-offs to the furthest reaches of our closets. Yes, autumn is settling in,...

Send and Receive, Winnipeg's annual festival of sound, is on again this week and there's nary a hook, harmony or hand-clap to be heard. Instead, over a dozen of the world's foremost sound artists...

On the morning of April 5, 1994, Jarrod woke up wide-eyed. Believing that he could fly, the teenager convinced his father to drive him and a hang glider to a barren country road. There,...

War! Yes! Like most children of modern privilege, I've always had a naive fascination with war and, even more so, her heroes. Yes, those rugged men who were men, and weren't afraid to let...

Most university students spend their academic careers elbow-deep in couch cushions, digging for bus fare and maxing out that “emergency” credit card their parents pay off for them. But, for the modern Fine Arts...

The Smiths — “Please Please Please Let me Get What I Want” Three “pleases” and not even one “pretty” from Morrissey, a grown man whose unabashed “Dear Diary”-style poetry would make any 14-year old girl...