Things Withered
We know Winnipeg-born Susie Moloney from her novels A Dry Spell, The Dwelling, and The Thirteen. Moloney, who currently spends time in New York, tends…
Arts & Culture
Not your mommy’s garage
In a building constructed to hold more cars than were owned in the entire city of 1906 Winnipeg, a new 18+ venue is about to…
Going Deep with Jodie Layne
Our knowledge about safer sex usually includes reduction of risk and getting tested. We learn about the different kinds of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and…
Like riding a short, wide bicycle
He is the namesake of an American brigadier general and an English footballer, but local musician and visual artist Steve Basham represents neither war nor…
Make your own craft beer dinner (and dessert)
French Onion Soup by Sarah Michaelson (blogs at foodadventureclub.blogspot.ca) The Ingredients: 1 Tbsp butter 1 super giant Vidalia onion and 1 normal onion (or…
A passion for pints
Most restaurants plan a concept and a menu, and then pair their liquors accordingly – but at Barley Brothers in Winnipeg, it’s all about the…
Big Fun in review
As one night of the event Big Fun, itself paired with the New Music Festival, Jan. 24 at the barely ventilated Windsor Hotel was a…
‘I am B.A. Johnston, and I’m sorry’
A B.A. Johnston performance has very little to do with music; it’s a booze-soaked whirlwind of sad-sack ditties interrupted by moderate acts of destruction. The songs…
A night of Winnipeg for Winnipeg
For the third year in a row, Romi Mayes has collected 20 of her favourite local songwriters, bringing them together for one night of exceptional…
The Good, The Bad, and the Critic
F.W. Murnau’s 1922 classic Nosferatu–starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok—portrays a merciless vampire interested in a new castle to lure his victims to and, more…