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The Fright Stuff
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Gape-mouthed monsters overrun swirling landscapes of fever and dream. The preternatural world consorts freely with ours, often to violent and surreal effect. Aesthetic touchstones such as Manga, Buddhist hell scrolls and Hieronymus Bosch have...
Eat, Sleep, Drink Evil
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Christening your band “Goatwhore” is definitely not the path of least resistance to widespread social acceptance. This is unfortunate, because to hear lead singer Ben Falgoust explain it, Goatwhore are actually the black metal...
Sudoku: Behind the scenes
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Upon meeting Will Gibson (Doctor Octagon) the creator of the Manitoban’s sudoku puzzles, two things are abundantly clear: this man knows his computers and he knows his sudoku.
For those not familiar with the...
Roller derby proudly returns to Winnipeg
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I got my first glimpse of the Murder City Maidens at a practice on a Canadian Forces base late one night last week. Not since junior high field trips to Wheelies, where Salt-N-Pepa’s song...
So you want to climb?
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I can honestly admit that some of the coolest people I know are climbers. Maybe they’re cool because they climb. Or maybe climbing makes them cool. Or maybe they’re cool because when they talk...
Olympics bring obscurity to the forefront
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Winter sports are few and far between, likely because many of us want nothing to do with the frigid outdoors. There is hockey, skiing, snowboarding, snowman-making and — how could I forget — hockey....
Mastering the Bosu ball
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“See that circle right in the middle? That’s what we call the ‘sweet spot.’” Brenda is the instructor of a Bosu class I’ve started taking at Joe Doupe, the Bannatyne campus’ gym, and she’s...
