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The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) kicked off Francophonie Month on March 1 by streaming Fransaskois singer-songwriter and filmmaker Alexis Normand’s 18-minute film French Enough. The film is set at Normand’s family cabin near...

In the post-Phoebe Bridgers indie landscape, confessional songwriting has become the standard, and the more gut-wrenching the better.  But what gets lost in this chase for authenticity is what makes confessional songs actually great —...

Alice Childress was almost the first Black woman playwright to have her work appear on Broadway in 1955 with her wry and potent meta-comedy Trouble in Mind. But when producers requested a happier ending and...

After dark, after hours, demon time, scary hours. Things slow down at night, things feel different in the dark, and the spirits and emotions that stay hidden during the day rise up. We all have dark...

Despite living in Winnipeg for nearly a decade, I had never attended Festival du Voyageur before this year, even with the high acclaim it has received from all my friends who were born and...

Aside from a few chains sporadically peppering Pembina highway, Winnipeg South is sorely lacking coffeehouses. Even a few of the Starbucks locations that used to work as base camps for rogue U of M...

Saskatchewan-born singer-songwriter Andy Shauf is a consummate storyteller. This reputation has followed him around for his entire career, and he seems quite happy to perpetuate it.  Shauf’s earlier work fit firmly into the storytelling idiom...