Arts & Culture

Racism, motherhood, plastic surgery and the politics of love — these are some of the issues that are being dealt with theatrically as part of FemFest 2010: On the Edge. Designed to celebrate women...

Let Me In is a violent vampire horror-drama that centers on a desperate bond that forms between two lonely kids, one of whom is a vampire. Directed by Matt Reeves, it is an American...

The art gallery: that impenetrable bastion of high, nearly unapproachable, culture. Its track lighting and white walls are dominated by whispering figures and sidelong glances. Do you return the glance? Do you know him?...

The Manitoban Musical Atlas of Popular Music is a sporadically-published guide to the export-friendly pop music of the world outside England and North America. Society Iceland’s musical society is more closely knit than its sweaters. Few...

I have a tea problem: green, Earl Grey, chai . . . the list is too long. Similarly, the smell of coffee will break even my most driven and assertive stride, and will force...

When it comes to the inventions of the human race, there is a long line of things that we’re particularly proud of. Usually these items are pieces of art, scores of music, fine wines...

As children, when something didn’t go exactly according to plan, or quite as well as we’d have liked it to, we enjoyed the luxury of do-overs. They weren’t supposed to be allowed in whatever...