Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Review: Take Shelter, dir. Jeff Nichols

By
Adam McCort
The annual Oscar ceremony has come and gone. For those of us cynical of Hollywood’s celebration of excellence in film, it was yet another year of predictable best picture nominations, most of which do...
Arts & Culture

Manitoba invades SXSW

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Amy Anne Smith
The South by Southwest music festival is about to kick off and in the spirit of SXSW we here at the Manitoban have decided to take some time and look at some of the...
Arts & Culture

Sound Off w/ The Cat Empire

By
Leah Hansen
The Cat Empire, formed in Australia, is a six-piece fusion band that has managed to fly under the radar while selling millions of albums worldwide. Mixing elements of reggae, jazz, Afro-Cuban, funk and pop...
Arts & Culture

Sound Off w/ Greg Rekus

By
Ryan Harby
Local punk rock musician and folk singer Greg Rekus recently released his new full-length album entitled The Dude Abides. Having toured across Canada in 2011, Rekus has set off to promote his new album...
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Platform presents reclaimed history in new video exhibit

By
Leah Hansen
Suspicious Futures: Select Video Work, by Susan Britton, is a collection of videos that, to date, have been out of the public eye for more than 15 years. Britton’s work, to be shown at...
Arts & Culture

Ask Kara

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Kara Passey
Dear Kara, I'm a student at the U of W and I've never been on a date or kissed a girl before. I am very quiet, a bit anxious and avoidant in general, and I...
Arts & Culture

40 years strong for Plug In

By
Leah Hansen
Imagine for a minute that you are an artist. You’re local, from Manitoba and eager to showcase your contemporary work in the belief that it will stretch boundaries, shatter expectations and change the landscape...

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