Arts & Culture

It must be September again. The echoes of U1 tour guides saying “That’s the radio station” are receding and the most common questions of people walking into UMFM are “Where’s the used book store?”...

Winnipeg’s hip-hop scene, like any in Canada, is constantly overlooked and often regarded as a pale imitation of an American art form. In response, the Winnipeg Cinematheque is going to attempt to give it...

Artist: Iggy Pop Album: Preliminaries Year : 2009 Label: Astralwerks .5 out of ** The latest from the punk rock God (or Dog, Iggy Pop's preferred title) claims inspiration from the Michel Houellebecq novel The Possibility of...

Artist: The Wind Whistles Album: Animals Are People, Too Year : 2009 Label: Independent * out of * The graphic on the Wind Whistles Myspace.com page of a rodent flying an airplane is, in the words of...

For most of us patriotic Canadians required to take French until the grade nine, French class sucks. I, too, am part of the majority that feels this way. After years of completing sheets of...

This piece is intended to be spoken to the tune of Baz Luhrmann’s “Everybody’s Free (to Wear Sunscreen).” Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of 2009, read your textbooks. If I could offer you only...

Whether in the form of Jedi Knights who wield their elegant lightsabers, or cartoon felines who deliver pizza and fight crime, the samurai has become a part of Western culture. With the exception of...