Arts & Culture

Well I was all set to write about resolutions and promises for this playlist, in keeping with the ones we all seem to make at this time of year, but I was finding far...

A swing and a miss. It was a valiant effort, but in its two-year life span Winnipeg radio listeners remained unreceptive to the pop alternative pitched by Curve 94.3 FM. CHUM Radio had high...

Much like Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus, City Lights is a film that exists for its ending alone, a “comedy romance in pantomime” as the opening title indicates, which, in 1930, makes it even more...

For the past month, arts and culture sections in newspapers and magazines have been filled with top 10s, fives and perhaps a few top 14s, but no discussion of the three most important and...

Lake Superior State University — longstanding arbiter of taste and go-to state university for word-banishing — declared the word “epic” banned for 2011. Along with “viral,” “fail” and “Facebook” as a verb, “epic” is...

The back lane is creepy — pitch black in the summer and surprisingly bright in the winter, but creepy all year round. The reason the back lane puts me off is because it’s so...

The rider sees the cabin; he sees the creak of its door; he sees the shadows that pour in from the lightless house astride the evening star that sets across the field. Cotton, he...