400 year anniversary
Did you know the University of Manitoba has a first edition copy of the King James Bible? If you know where to go and who…
Arts & Culture
CD Review: The Darcys, The Darcys
This October saw the Toronto-based band the Darcys deliver their first offering on the Arts & Crafts label. Produced by Murray Lightburn of the Dears,…
Fruit shake, on the go!
Ingredients: 1 full, chopped banana 5-6 ice cubes 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 tablespoon sugar 1-2 tablespoons cinnamon 3/4 cup milk Directions: This recipe makes 2-3…
Sound off
Sound Off is a continuing column in which we pose different artists the same series of crucial questions. Maya Postepski makes up one third of…
Dragons, archetypes and the art of getting old
I remember pulling Eragon off of the shelf eight years ago. I remember asking the man at the counter if the book was really worth…
For the record lover
Recently, the Manitoban was able to sit down and talk vinyl with one of the all-time Winnipeg record gurus, Greg Tonn, founder of the widely…
CD Review: Marketa Irglova, Anar
For some it may be hard to imagine Marketa Irglova without her long-time collaborator, Glen Hansard, as one half of the Swell Season . The…
Long, hard road for music legend
The birth of reggae, the rise of a young Bob Marley, Jamaican civil unrest, police extortion, the birth of dub, the English punk scene of…
Boast worthy borscht
Smooth, delicious, hearty, majestic and intriguingly complex — this recipe reminds me of myself (my partner insists that I mention how simple it is). Serve…
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….