Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

CD Review: Trampled By Turtles, Stars and Satellites

By
Marc Lagace
If you’re a regular folkie at the Winnipeg Folk Fest, you may already be familiar with the pride of Northern Minnesota, Trampled By Turtles. The progressive bluegrass quintet from Duluth brought their devilishly fast...
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CD Review: Decemberists, We All Raise Our Voices to the Air

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Amy Anne Smith
Interesting is a prickly word. When I say something is interesting, I usually mean that it is mediocre, but that I am feeling too wimpy to say so. Interesting is a word that I...
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How to watch Game of Thrones, season two

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Amy Anne Smith
Warning: slight to significant to severe spoilers ahead --- HBO is an island in a sea of bad television and the Game of Thrones series that was released last fall is a perfect example of why....
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Mass Effect 3, a fitting conclusion

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Richard Wong
Edmonton based developer Bioware follows up one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time with a blockbuster franchise finale in Mass Effect 3. The entire galaxy is at stake and the choices...
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Get off my Facebook, Grandma

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Darcy Ropchan
EDMONTON (CUP) — People say you should respect and listen to your elders, as though old people are Yoda, dripping with wisdom that they should dispense every chance they get. That’s bullshit. Old people...
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Five movies people used to love, but now inexplicably hate

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Colin Gibbings
SASKATOON (CUP) Ever liked a movie that most people seem to hate? Everyone has at least one. Some have several. Ever hated a movie everyone else seems to love? Again, of course you do. Even Star...
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Worthy adaptation (Hunger Games double take!)

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Amy Anne Smith
For most, Katniss Everdeen needs no introduction. Suzanna Collins’s bestselling novel The Hunger Games has moved out of Scholastic Book orders and into the mainstream. People who haven’t read it have heard of it,...

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