Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Get off your dumb lazy butt

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Ben Clarkson
When I was asked by one of the editors of the Manitoban to write an article about how to motivate yourself and how you are your worst critic I thought to myself, “I can’t...
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Social networks hand over the microphone

By
Ian Froese
What’s on your mind? This is the question phrased on the homepage of the micro-blogging, social networking giant Twitter.com. Users of the website, along with followers of social media counterpart Facebook.com and lesser utilized...
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A first year’s guide to university according to George Roy

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George Roy
First-years, you’re not in high school anymore. University, as I’m sure you’ve been told, is much different than high school. Maybe you don’t believe it. I didn’t when I began university. Knowing now how...
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The people behind the paint

By
Lasha Mowchun
I asked Dee Barsy on a bright Wednesday morning, “Is painting still relevant? In a media-saturated world where the average person is bombarded by thousands of images a day through the Internet, television and...
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Drawn Underground

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Brandice Smith
Recently I stumbled upon something called folksonomy (from “folk taxonomy”) — a kind social tagging for art. It’s a program that gives any member of the public access to look at various museums’ online...
Arts & Culture

Lollapalooza-palooza

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Meredith Holigroski
I still don’t know how it happened. What began as an observation between friends, that the 2010 Lollapalooza line-up was pretty great, somehow evolved into looking up cheap hotel rooms and booking time off...
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8-bit Charm

By
Ryan Harby
In order for Scott Pilgrim to date Ramona Flowers he must first defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends. At least part of the success of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series is due to the...

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