Arts & Culture

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 produces creativity? Matt Peters: I find going...

Four University of Manitoba students had the opportunity to travel to Tokyo, Japan as part of the Japan-Canada Academic Consortium (JACAC), to discuss environmental issues and sustainable innovation during its first ever forum. The event...

“I think I may be in love with William Shakespeare.” I tell this to my academic friends and they answer with sceptical faces. “How?” they ask. And there is one major consideration that obviously...

School I only ended up having maybe three actual meetings with each professor. Both classes required one paper, both of which are now finished, and I have one oral exam next week. I’m not saying that...

The Crocs The Rio Tarcoles, just north of Jaco, Costa Rica, is home to the largest crocodile population in the Americas. There’s a bridge over the Tarcoles that one crosses to leave Jaco for the...

This past Tuesday evening I witnessed a rarity — the recorder (that instrument you probably played in elementary school music class) used in a contemporary chamber setting. Michala Petri is a recorder virtuoso. It...

“My favourite emotion, laughing through tears,” said Clairee Belcher (Susan Clarke), one of the six memorable characters who inhabit Truvy’s Beauty Salon. The packed house at MTC on the opening night of Steel Magnolias...