Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

A first year’s guide to university according to George Roy

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George Roy
First-years, you’re not in high school anymore. University, as I’m sure you’ve been told, is much different than high school. Maybe you don’t believe it. I didn’t when I began university. Knowing now how...
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The people behind the paint

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Lasha Mowchun
I asked Dee Barsy on a bright Wednesday morning, “Is painting still relevant? In a media-saturated world where the average person is bombarded by thousands of images a day through the Internet, television and...
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Drawn Underground

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Brandice Smith
Recently I stumbled upon something called folksonomy (from “folk taxonomy”) — a kind social tagging for art. It’s a program that gives any member of the public access to look at various museums’ online...
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Lollapalooza-palooza

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Meredith Holigroski
I still don’t know how it happened. What began as an observation between friends, that the 2010 Lollapalooza line-up was pretty great, somehow evolved into looking up cheap hotel rooms and booking time off...
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8-bit Charm

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Ryan Harby
In order for Scott Pilgrim to date Ramona Flowers he must first defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends. At least part of the success of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series is due to the...
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Michael Cera in review

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Laura Blakley
Fans of the Scott Pilgrim series seemed collectively intrigued by the idea of the Canadian graphic novel being transformed into an Edgar Wright flick, and then Scott Pilgrim fans collectively slapped their foreheads when...
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Art in the city’s North End

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Ben Miller
A new arts centre in Winnipeg’s North End hopes to improve the lives of that community’s members. The Selkirk Avenue North End Arts Centre (NEAC) offers drop-in art programs hosted by professional artists for...

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