Arts & Culture

I’ve just finished reading Charles Foran’s mammoth biography of one of my literary heroes, Mordecai Richler. Privy to Richler’s private papers, held by the University of Calgary, Foran made a startling discovery that had...

Jonathan Ball is a writer, a filmmaker and scholar, but mostly, he’s a writer. The author of two quite successful recent books, Ex Machina and Clockfire and innumerable other things, he teaches writing at...

When was the last time you had to unpack a crate full of squashed baby sea turtles and their eggs that were smuggled across international borders in someone’s luggage? Do you think you could...

Starting Dec. 1, the Winnipeg Art Gallery will be screening the winners of the 2010 Cannes Lions festival, which took place June 20-26, 2010. The Screen Advertising World Association created the festival in...

“NEW.” It was written in thick black letters across the neon green sticker, covering parts of the psychedelic smoke trails left by a vintage six-shooter. Whoever placed that small adhesive ad was either a...

I, like most other students I know, am inexplicably poor. I’m not complaining, because I still have a roof over my head and food in my hand at this very moment, but it’s nice...

Five Questions is a continuing column in which we pose a different artist the same five crucial questions. One: The Manitoban: What substance or activity do you find to be creativity-producing? Nathan Ham: Absolute friendship is the...