The 2011 Manitoban Short Fiction Contest
Think you’re adept at story telling? Want to showcase your writing talents? Join in the fun and participate in the 2011 Manitoban Short Fiction Contest!…
Arts & Culture
Movie review: Immortals
There are blood, guts and glory — everything we might expect from the new adventure/action film Immortals, directed by Tarsem Singh. This is not a…
Things I’ve loved
Things I’ve Loved is a celebration of things from the near or distant past, either overlooked or forgotten by the unforgiving eye of popular culture….
NaNoWriMo is upon us
You want to be a novelist. Come on, admit it: it’s your lifelong goal to write an entire narrative, start to finish, with a complete…
In South Korea, the future is now!
Before my brother forced me to learn how to play StarCraft — so that he could enjoy ruthlessly murdering me without consequences, no doubt —…
Movie review: The Way
Emilio Estevez’s films (first Bobby and now The Way) read to me as cinematic fortune cookies: dubious, unenlightening and, most of all, disposable. In Bobby,…
Movie review: Tower Heist
There aren’t many people happy right now with the men and women who work on Wall Street. Tower Heist, directed by Brett Ratner, is a…
Game review: Batman: Arkham City
I’m Batman. Ok, that’s not true, but I feel like Batman and you can too with Batman: Arkham City. After a long and rather disappointing…
Ten great things
1. Risk — This is probably my favourite board game of all time. Truthfully, though, it is not a game for everyone. You must be…
The World: A Global Village
The increasing interconnectedness of our planet has created what is often called a “Global Village.” This connection comes as a result of the constant stream…