Features

Confessions of a transplanted Winnipegger

By
Ian Froese
the lecture notes are unkemptly strung across my dorm room table. My eyes glaze over the content I am supposed to memorize, allowing my mind to wander. Memories of home engulf my brain. Of...
Arts & Culture

Awaiting a Curve ball

By
Ian Froese
A swing and a miss. It was a valiant effort, but in its two-year life span Winnipeg radio listeners remained unreceptive to the pop alternative pitched by Curve 94.3 FM. CHUM Radio had high...
Arts & Culture

Social networks hand over the microphone

By
Ian Froese
What’s on your mind? This is the question phrased on the homepage of the micro-blogging, social networking giant Twitter.com. Users of the website, along with followers of social media counterpart Facebook.com and lesser utilized...
Arts & Culture

Ridiculing Justin Bieber and his friends

By
Ian Froese
Popularity is an elusive treasure for many. The prospect of wanting to achieve this social status plants its foundation in our brains at a young age and continues to foster for years afterwards. Although...
Sports

‘Ball’ golf meets Frisbee

By
Ian Froese
Presuming that we will not be greeted by another fresh dumping of the white stuff in early April; which, dare I say, is probable, the breed of athletes known as golfers are making their...
Arts & Culture

Musical Memory : The Headbanging Fraud

By
Ian Froese
Attending concerts has never been my calling. Instead, I had always chosen to listen to music free of charge, by blasting terrestrial radio stations and illegally downloading tunes (gasp!). I finally broke down last...
Sports

Reliving the winter Olympic spectacle

By
Ian Froese
Oh, the Olympics. I heart you. Every two years you return to my lonely grasp, and in my desperate attempt to smile you lead me on a short-lived but memorable journey cheering on athletes...
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