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The highs and lows of Winnipeg Folk Festival
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Getting more elaborate and more innovative each year, for many people the Winnipeg Folk Festival is an annual ritual that is not to be missed. I have affectionately compiled a list of highlights and...
From a distance
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The short stories in Michelle Berry’s collection, I Still Don’t Even Know You, present the same kind of perspective on people that you get by watching them at night under the glare of a...
Essentially a playlist
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Man oh man, you gotta feel sorry for Dan oh Dan. Gilbert that is. It’s not enough that his marquee player left him on live TV, but then he got slapped by the commish...
Into the wilderness
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The critical feedback for The Wilderness of Manitoba’s latest album When You Left the Fire has been nothing if not consistent. The same descriptors reappear: a lush, folk album with 1960s influences and rife...
After Abba
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From June 3-19, Stockholm Sweden celebrated Crown Princess Victoria’s marriage to her personal trainer Daniel Westling, with a festival of the arts called “LOVE Stockholm 2010.” If financial circumstances, scheduling or a no-fly...
BoG notes
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The University of Manitoba’s Board of Governors met on June 22.
University President David Barnard spoke about the negotiations between various professional faculties and the provincial government over raising tuition levels above the previously approved...
UMSU notes
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The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) council met on June 24th, 2010.
The council approved the selection of Darcy Vermeulen to fill the position of UMSU council chair for the 2010-11 year.
Services Coordinator Sharilyn...
