Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Places for Peanuts

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Amy Anne Smith
I looked up at the walls of the Edge Gallery, awestruck. Small postcard-sized drawings were everywhere, covering the walls like tiny freckles. The Edge Gallery sits on the periphery of the downtown area, off...
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Todd & the Book of Pure Evil

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Amy Anne Smith
There’s something uncannily charming about Todd & the Book of Pure Evil. The show debuted last fall on the Space network and was filmed right here in Winnipeg. The series begins when Todd Smith,...
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Book review: MetaMaus

By
Ryan Harby
It’s been more than 20 years since the original release of Art Spiegelman’s two volume holocaust epic, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, and in that time span the book has become a critical darling, a...
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CD Review: Tom Waits, Bad as Me

By
Timothy Dyck
Tom Waits is notorious for taking listeners to bizarre and gritty soundscapes. His musical prowess has been punctuated with sharp horn melodies, drunken carnival-esque sounds and bitter drunken piano ballads, all the while sung...
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My love affair with Death Cab

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Amy Anne Smith
Death Cab for Cutie, for those of you who don’t know, is a band founded by Ben Gibbard in the late nineties. They’ve released seven studio albums, three of which were recorded with Atlantis....
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Essentially a Playlist

By
Michael Elves
With the omnibus crime bill that the Conservative government recently introduced, you’d be forgiven for thinking that our parents have some longstanding hate on when it comes to drugs. But I get the feeling...
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CD Review: Dan Mangan

By
Adam Petrash
Oh Fortune, the follow-up to the 2009 Polaris Prize nominee Nice, Nice, Very Nice, sees the Vancouverite Dan Mangan show definite growth. He’s dropped the stripped down songs that featured only his voice and...

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