Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

John Cage on the radio

By
Maria Bowler
The Komodo Dragon Show has been on the air on UMFM for over 10 years— same name, same host: the venerable Paul Von Wichert. Von Wichert is a U of M faculty of music...
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Winnipeg in writing

By
Benjamin Miller
Sometimes it takes a fresh set of eyes to see something for what it is, and this is especially true of Manitoba. Manitoba is at the same time introverted and outward-looking. Few of us...
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The Sadies get hereditary

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Benjamin Miller
We, as a society, do not always take well to the idea of inherited privilege. Perhaps we think it’s undemocratic; it conjures up some collective memory of monarchy that we’d rather not think about....
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Five Questions

By
Maria Bowler
Five Questions is a continuing column in which we pose a different artist the same five crucial questions. One: The Manitoban: What substance or activity do you find to be creativity-producing? Matt Schellenberg of The Liptonians: Bolthouse...
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Diaristic documentaries

By
Ryan Simmons
From Feb. 11-13, the Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque will be hosting Alan Zweig, one of Canada’s greatest documentary filmmakers, with a retrospective of some of his best works. Cinematheque is not alone in highlighting...
Arts & Culture

Technology for art’s sake

By
Leif Larsen
What happens when you give a reference librarian an iPhone and tell her to do something exciting? If you’re Liv Valmestad, a librarian in the University of Manitoba’s architecture and fine arts library, you...
Arts & Culture

The pretty girl

By
Jordan Michalski
We all know those girls. Those girls who guys seem to gaze upon endlessly. Those girls who guys are afraid to talk to. The pretty girls. Even if this doesn’t ring a bell and...

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