Spring kind of sucks
Can you feel it? The last week of weather in Manitoba has offered us a glimpse into what we are in for. The temperature on…
Arts & Culture
A Guide for the Urban Voyageur
One of Manitoba’s proudest traditions is the Festival du Voyageur. Known for a while as the world’s largest kitchen party, the Festival du Voyageur was…
Merging theory and action for International Women’s Day
The University of Manitoba Feminist Collective consists of eight members. Dana Austman, Nadine Boulay, Kira Dickson, Irene Fubara, Tara Lambert, Chantel Paul, Jennifer Portillo and…
Five Questions
Five Questions is a continuing column in which we pose a different artist the same five crucial questions. One: The Manitoban: What substance or activity…
The Weakerthans’ cabin collaboration
Ottawa singer-songwriter Jim Bryson’s latest album, The Falcon Lake Incident, features Winnipeg’s own Weakerthans. According to Weakerthans guitarist Stephen Carroll, the collaboration was a natural…
The only car I ever loved
Teal in color, light on gas and as threatening as a fly — a Honda Civic is the only car I ever grew to love….
How to get famous
I’m sure that, by now, most of you have heard of Winnipeg YouTube sensation Maria Aragon. If not, let me fill you in: Two weeks…
To creep or not to creep
What do my dental hygienist, the person who crashed their car into mine, the person who bought my guitar off of Kijiji.com and hundreds of…
Dog walking with Pamela Anderson
Kristin Nelson has a popular name. She shares it with an American primitive painter and an actress famous for her work on the TV series…
Remembering Nodar
I’m in the process of reading VANOC CEO John Furlong’s memoir of the 2010 Olympics, Patriot Hearts, and certainly one of the central events in…