Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

’Toban tracks

By
Kaelen Bell
The best love songs are not romantic — instead, they say something about romance. Sometimes they are about friends or parents or children or pets or music itself. Sometimes they are desperate. Sometimes they...
Jenelle McCann
Arts & Culture

Recommendations for your next virtual viewing party

By
Manitoban staff
It is around this time every year that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honours some of the best filmmaking, acting and technical work at its Academy Awards ceremony, colloquially known as...
Dallin Chicoine
Arts & Culture

The state of local film is not in flux

By
Shaylyn Maharaj-Poliah
During Manitoba’s initial shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020, many beloved institutions were shuttered and long-anticipated events were cancelled. One of these closures was the Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque, a local...
Arts & Culture

A much-needed distraction from lockdown blues

By
Kaelen Bell
As its name would suggest, Six-Foot Citrus is a band with a handle on absurdity — an instrument-swapping lineup with a constantly rotating frontperson, the quartet feels amorphous and playful, striking the balance between...
Arts & Culture

Musical chemistry found in a most unexpected place

By
Kaelen Bell
The internet was supposed to make our lives better. The reality of that naive dream is a little more complicated and a whole lot scarier, as it turns out the information superhighway might just...
Arts & Culture

In conversation with Canadian author Annette Lapointe

By
Shaylyn Maharaj-Poliah
From the COVID-19 pandemic and murder hornets to important civil rights protests and one of the most nail-biting elections in American history, 2020 was certainly a roller-coaster ride of emotions. Now that we are beginning...
Arts & Culture

’Toban cornertable

By
Emily Unrau-Poetker
Annette Lapointe is intimately familiar with the Canadian Prairies. Born into rural life, Lapointe has spent her time since then travelling away from and returning to one or another of the Prairie provinces. She...

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