Arts & Culture
The best seats in the house are in your own home
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During these unprecedented times, society has turned to the arts to fill the hours spent quarantining.
Besides the overwhelming presence of streaming services specifically for television and film, many plays and musicals have also become...
We’ll always have Cinematheque at Home
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With sit-in movie theatres still closed around the province, and if you don’t own a vehicle to attend a drive-in theatre, Winnipeg’s local darling, the Cinematheque, has you covered for a movie night in.
Cinematheque...
The Prairie Joggers — ‘The Prairie Joggers,’ 4/5
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The Prairie Joggers make simple songs with complicated hearts. The Winnipeg duo’s chipper, dust-blown sound is reliant on dense lyricism and memorable melodies rather than any sort of bombast or surprise.
Their debut self-titled EP...
From board to digital
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Alchemists
Matthew Doering, editor-in-chief
Even more soul-sucking than fixating on the daily increase in the spread of COVID-19 may be the absence of research and conferences as our academic lives are turned upside down during this...
Ada Lea — ‘Woman, Here,’ 3.5/5
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Ada Lea’s debut record, 2019’s What We Say in Private, was a prickly and elastic rock composition, built from bent folk guitars and an itching stop-start rhythmic pulse.
Lea’s new EP, Woman, Here, is billed...
The who’s who of Canadiana
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A collective memory of Canadians, Hinterland Who’s Who remains a staple of Canadiana, with newly produced versions of the short educational films on television at this very moment.
Andrew Burke, a film professor at the...
Music in the age of coronavirus
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Cody Goertzen and Adam Hill are keeping busy while the world burns outside, attempting to make the most of this collective isolation.
“We’re doing okay,” Goertzen said. “We’ve got a nice space — we’ve got...
