Manitoba invades SXSW
The South by Southwest music festival is about to kick off and in the spirit of SXSW we here at the Manitoban have decided to…
Arts & Culture
Sound Off w/ The Cat Empire
The Cat Empire, formed in Australia, is a six-piece fusion band that has managed to fly under the radar while selling millions of albums worldwide….
Sound Off w/ Greg Rekus
Local punk rock musician and folk singer Greg Rekus recently released his new full-length album entitled The Dude Abides. Having toured across Canada in 2011,…
Platform presents reclaimed history in new video exhibit
Suspicious Futures: Select Video Work, by Susan Britton, is a collection of videos that, to date, have been out of the public eye for more…
Ask Kara
Dear Kara, I’m a student at the U of W and I’ve never been on a date or kissed a girl before. I am very…
40 years strong for Plug In
Imagine for a minute that you are an artist. You’re local, from Manitoba and eager to showcase your contemporary work in the belief that it…
Essentially A Playlist: Soundtrack edition (part one)
I didn’t even bother watching the Oscars this year because the only film in the running that I’d seen was Moneyball, so I was spared…
CD Review: Islands, A Sleep & A Forgetting
Islands has always been a band on the periphery of my musical interests. I gave earlier albums Arms Way and Vapours a listen, but was…
Life After Pokémon
Ash Ketchum was the undisputed hero of my childhood. He had that red Pokéball hat that he would turn backwards every time he prepared to…
Jinchalo: A visual journey
Jinchalo, title of Matthew Forsythe’s newest graphic novel, is a Korean expression, meaning “really?” A question of reality: what and where is the line between…