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Fifth year of fun
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Big Fun Festival is back for its fifth year. Between Jan. 27 and Jan. 31, downtown Winnipeg’s annual winter music festival will once again fill venues in and around the city’s urban centre with...
Revenant embraces realism
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Months before The Revenant was released, stories were flooding in from set reporting the difficulty of the shoot, with one crewmember even referring to the production as “living hell.”
Filmed over a nine month period...
The Piano Maker: a post-war pilgrimage
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In his new book The Piano Maker, Kurt Palka draws inspiration from a time of economic and social crisis in post-First World War Canada to create a noteworthy story. The potency of this book...
Dickinson of Dragon’s Den to talk achievement
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On Thursday, Jan. 28, the UMSU 2015-16 Speaker Series will bring renowned Canadian entrepreneur Arlene Dickinson to speak in the “fishbowl” area just off of the Drake Centre’s atrium. The event is free of...
Writer-in-residence: Jeanne Randolph
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Over the next three months, students with a flair for writing will have the opportunity to be advised by the seasoned Canadian writer, Jeanne Randolph.
This winter term, the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative...
A quarter-century of creativity
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Winnipeg’s New Music Festival (NMF) is turning 25. To celebrate their anniversary, the local festival will be hosting many exciting events popping up at various venues across the city from Jan. 23-29.
In 1989, Bramwell...
Fresh album, fresh attitude
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When your voice draws comparisons to Canadian music legends Neil Young and Gordon Lightfoot, you know you have something special, and for J.P. Hoe, that’s exactly the case. Take his 2012 sophomore record Mannequin...
