Brawlers, scientific marvels, and high flyers
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Premier Championship Wrestling (PCW) was founded by a triumvirate of Winnipeggers including current owner Andrew Shallcross, Mike Davidson, formerly of Top Rope Championship Wrestling (TRCW), and businessman John Nguyen. Today, the Winnipeg promotion has...
‘Winnipeg is the unofficial hub of the Aboriginal music community in...
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In May 2013 Statistics Canada released the first data from the 2011 National Household Survey, which replaced the former long-form census. Significant facts about the population of young Aboriginal people in Winnipeg and the...
The sound of violence
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Nicholas Krueger confronts the assumption that violent screech is a term for the sound made by a novice violin student playing the instrument for the first time. Classically trained at Centenary Suzuki School in...
One artist, many hands
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When the site at the Forks was excavated for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), 400,000 mostly Aboriginal artifacts were unearthed.
Now, when visitors to Canada’s newest national museum enter the postmodern building, they...
Dancing for the darkness
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Grave Clothes,” one of the three songs on the freshman release from local trio the Party Dress, is suited for use in a film by David Lynch or Quentin Tarantino. On this 7” EP,...
When our humanity meets mental illness
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If you want to be confronted with the challenges of being human sans heavy-handed preaching, then check out the upcoming production of The Valley at Prairie Theatre Exchange (PTE).
The play is the newest by...
6,000 years of trade
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For at least 6,000 years, international trade occurred at the confluence of what we now call the Red and Assiniboine rivers. Cree, Anishinaabe, Sioux, and Nakoda traders made use of these waterways long before...
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