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…
Arts & Culture
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….
Gypsy Woman coming to Black Hole
The Black Hole Theatre company is set to open their 2011-12 season with a contemporary version of The Gypsy Woman, a play by Don Nigro….
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!…
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,…