Arts & Culture
Land down under
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My name is Brittany Curtis. I am 22 years old and will be graduating from the University of Manitoba with my bachelor of kinesiology this spring. However, over the last six months, I have...
Dan Savage: best sex advice for a busy university student?
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How does one write a good sex column? For that matter, how does one write about a topic that is often the most intimate and sometimes uncomfortable thing a person can share in an...
CD review : The Paperbacks, “Lit From Within”
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One hundred and twenty-six minutes is an unusual length for an album. Yet, that’s the exact duration of Lit From Within, the new album from Winnipeg’s the Paperbacks. It’s an extraordinarily ambitious length, like...
Local Lookout : The Lytics
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The Lytics are a local hip hop treat; their music is energetic, lively and optimistic. Their catchy songs range from the electro-inspired dance beats of “Smoke! Pretty Young Things,” to the more mellow “Big...
She’s so heavy
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Imagine Franz Kafka, but without the joy and hope. You’ll arrive at Caryl Churchill’s Fen — a play as bleak as the landscape from which it is raised like the potatoes harvested by the...
Just the fax
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We are constantly reminded how technology is rapidly developing and changing our world. Apple just announced its new product — the iPad — a handy device that stores books, music, videos and will even...
New music, Ho!
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The 2010 Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival is set to kick off this Saturday. In anticipation, the Manitoban's John Herbert Cunningham spoke with WSO composer-in-residence, Vincent Ho, about his impact on the NMF...
