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Living in GOSA’s glass bubble
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From the week of Nov. 15-19, 2010, I lived in a tent in the Gallery of Student Art on campus at the University of Manitoba, in an exhibition called Secondhand Tables and Chairs. The...
Essentially a playlist
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I’ve just finished reading Charles Foran’s mammoth biography of one of my literary heroes, Mordecai Richler. Privy to Richler’s private papers, held by the University of Calgary, Foran made a startling discovery that had...
Rolling with Ball
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Jonathan Ball is a writer, a filmmaker and scholar, but mostly, he’s a writer. The author of two quite successful recent books, Ex Machina and Clockfire and innumerable other things, he teaches writing at...
Feathers, Fur, Friends! Foes?
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When was the last time you had to unpack a crate full of squashed baby sea turtles and their eggs that were smuggled across international borders in someone’s luggage? Do you think you could...
Ad Infinitum
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Starting Dec. 1, the Winnipeg Art Gallery will be screening the winners of the 2010 Cannes Lions festival, which took place June 20-26, 2010. The Screen Advertising World Association created the festival in...
We’ve still got the blues
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“NEW.” It was written in thick black letters across the neon green sticker, covering parts of the psychedelic smoke trails left by a vintage six-shooter. Whoever placed that small adhesive ad was either a...
The science of Phrenology
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Man, of course, is the only creature given divine rationality. These, and other traits, are housed in the brain, the central organ that differentiates us from the beasts. Scientists and philosophers have long pondered...
