Arts & Culture

Aboriginal marketplace needs your support

By
Meg Crane
Organizers are excited about the Aboriginal Arts, Culture, and Entertainment Marketplace, but not everyone involved is thrilled with how it’s turning out. The market is a partnership between the Aboriginal Chamber of Commerce (ACC) and...
Arts & Culture

Accessing art

By
Meg Crane
The arts aren’t always accessible for people with disabilities. Sometimes audience members can’t see a play because of flights of stairs. Other times, artwork is seen as therapeutic art rather than professional art. Sometimes, audience...
Arts & Culture

Review: Black Rock, by John McFetridge

By
Meg Crane
Whiney teenage girls. Strippers. Hippy college students who are political around men and flirty when alone. Dead women. Black Rock by John McFetridge is packed with women, but their personalities are flat and stereotypical. As the...
Arts & Culture

Heartworn Highways is back

By
Meg Crane
Heartworn Highway has previously been a bit of a boys club, but that is about to change. The workshop series features local musicians taking the stage with the Buffalo Band to play their favourite...
Arts & Culture

First annual Cassette Store Day

By
Meg Crane
Cassette Store Day, like Record Store Day, is meant to bring lovers of the dying media together. While this is the second year it has been held internationally, Winnipeg will be experiencing it for...
Features

The asterisk

By
Meg Crane
There’s no one proper acronym for the lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender community. Whether it’s GLBT*, LGBTQ or LGBTQIA, it’s all referring to the same people: the four listed above, plus two-spirited, queer, intersex,...
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