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Wintersleep never sleeps
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Wintersleep broke out in 2007 with the release of Welcome to the Night Sky, their third studio album. Currently on tour promoting their fourth album, 2010’s New Inheritors, Jon Samuel — a member of...
No shelter from this storm
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Classified by meteorologists as a “weather bomb,” Lake Winnipeg’s recent storm has left a chaotic clamouring that can be heard from many sides of the lake. Yet amid this cacophony, there are also stories...
Revisiting Carolee Schneemann
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Last February I attended a lecture on the rise of feminist art at Video Pool as part of Oliver Botar’s contemporary art history class. Among the films shown was Carolee Schneemann’s 1964 performance Meat...
Experiencing the Terrain
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Sweetgrass
Directed by: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Opening on Nov. 12
★★★ out of 5
After viewing the documentary Sweetgrass, the end credits explain what was just depicted: a 300 kilometre sheep-herding expedition through rural Montana....
How to survive the sleazy beast
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For 32 years Victoria jazz-punks NoMeansNo have lived apart from the sleazy beast known as the music industry. Now that the rest of the world has also turned its back on this ever-diminishing creature,...
Unnecessary Reviews: Marmaduke
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Unnecessary Reviews is a column where things are reviewed in a manner that is unnecessary.
They say you can’t keep a good dog down.
Just like the films Anaconda, Saw III and Vampire in Brooklyn that...
Good & Evil
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Good and evil. In politically correct discussion, it is often frowned upon to use those terms. We often hear people say, “You can’t look at the world in black and white,” or “Everything is...
