Arts & Culture


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…


Diaristic documentaries

From Feb. 11-13, the Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque will be hosting Alan Zweig, one of Canada’s greatest documentary filmmakers, with a retrospective of some of…



The pretty girl

We all know those girls. Those girls who guys seem to gaze upon endlessly. Those girls who guys are afraid to talk to. The pretty…


A social situation

It is that time of year once again, after New Years but before summer, that is classified as “peak social season.” Friends, friends of friends,…




Transit Waltz

I dance with the bus Each turn, each curve Each jolt, each thrust I dance with the bus I dance with the bus On way…


Hearts in the Arts

It is one of life’s great pleasures to rank stuff. Anything in the arts especially lends itself to those sorts of subjective, qualitative declarations, and…