Sound Off is a continuing column in which we pose a different artist the same crucial questions. Sheldon Birnie is the lead singer of the Winnipeg-based alt-country band Cheering for the Bad Guy. The band...

Earlier this summer, June 29 to be exact, something interesting happened on Conan. It was nearing the end of the program when the host, Conan O’Brien, explained to the audience that the show had...

I have been to the Winnipeg Art Gallery only three times in my life before Saturday night. I can say with absolute confidence that Nuit Blanche at the WAG was unlike anything I had...

Nuit Blanche is a free all-night visual arts party held as part of Culture Days Manitoba. On Oct. 1 the Winnipeg Art Gallery, as well as several more venues across downtown, will open its...

Dear future self, I would say it’s been a long time but, somehow, I doubt it has. I’ve decided to write you this letter both in effort to impart some of my youthful wisdom and to...

Most people familiar with the term improv might have visions of the British-turned-American show Whose Line is it Anyway? or perhaps the popular Upright Citizens Brigade live show Asssscat in their heads. This month...

Point / Counterpoint is a platform in which two parties discuss pertinent cultural issues from opposing sides. It’s a real debate, and like any honest fight, there are winners and losers. This is the...