Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

R.I.P-HOP?

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Maria Bowler
If hip hop's not dead then, according to Timbaland, it is at least seriously ill. The producer recently said publicly that rap's just not the same, and while there are some acts he deems...
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Yes? Yes — Yes. Yes . . . Yes!

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Andrea Karr
If you know anything about theatre, you know of Harold Pinter. And if you’ve heard of Harold Pinter, you know that he loves his pauses. He loves to nest in them, tempt women to...
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Essentially a Playlist : ‘Dad’ doesn’t equal ‘bad’

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Michael Elves
Last year in these very pages, The Deep Dark Woods' Winter Hours was panned — much to my chagrin. And while records get negative reviews all the time, what gave me pause was that,...
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CD review – Neon Indian “Psychic Chasms”

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Harrison Samphir
Alan Palomo isn’t just another electronic musician reveling in the by-gone sounds and (excessive) glam of the 1980s. In fact, the founder of the Austin, TX-based electropop outfit Neon Indian is anything but. Enigmatically...
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CD review – Will Bonness “Subtle Fire”

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John Herbert Cunningham
Jazz pianist Will Bonness is one of the young lions of the up-and-coming Winnipeg musicians that have arrived as a result of the U of M school of music’s jazz studies program. It is...
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CD review : Thousand Foot Krutch “Welcome to the Masquerade”

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Kyle Phillips
Somebody needs to tell Thousand Foot Krutch that rap-core died with Limp Bizkit and the first couple Linkin Park albums. The California trio's latest offering, their fifth full-length, Welcome to the Masquerade, opens with...
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Awkward Overtures

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Maria Bowler
With cameras and photographs so readily available, photographic art has some challenges ahead in order to define itself. How does a contemporary photographer make work that distinguishes itself, both from everyday snapshots and other...

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