Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

The Weakerthans’ cabin collaboration

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Benjamin Miller
Ottawa singer-songwriter Jim Bryson’s latest album, The Falcon Lake Incident, features Winnipeg’s own Weakerthans. According to Weakerthans guitarist Stephen Carroll, the collaboration was a natural one, partly because of the artists’ similarities. “I think...
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The only car I ever loved

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Morgan Modjeski
Teal in color, light on gas and as threatening as a fly — a Honda Civic is the only car I ever grew to love. Dubbed the “Hot-mobile” by my girlfriend and equipped with a...
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How to get famous

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Jordan Michalski
I’m sure that, by now, most of you have heard of Winnipeg YouTube sensation Maria Aragon. If not, let me fill you in: Two weeks ago, 10-year-old Maria Aragon posted a YouTube video of...
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To creep or not to creep

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Jordan Michalski
What do my dental hygienist, the person who crashed their car into mine, the person who bought my guitar off of Kijiji.com and hundreds of other seemingly random people have in common? They have...
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Dog walking with Pamela Anderson

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Benjamin Miller
Kristin Nelson has a popular name. She shares it with an American primitive painter and an actress famous for her work on the TV series Psych (although the actress spells her first name with...
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Remembering Nodar

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Michael Elves
I’m in the process of reading VANOC CEO John Furlong’s memoir of the 2010 Olympics, Patriot Hearts, and certainly one of the central events in the book — and in my own memories of...
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Get your Yukon

By
Benjamin Miller
Yukon Blonde, Kelowna-born Vancouver indie rockers, will begin their latest tour at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on Feb. 18 — one year since the release of their first, self-titled, album. Jeffrey Innes, Graham...

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