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…


Warhol to Wedman

Artist Neil Wedman is bringing his work to the University of Manitoba’s Gallery One One One. Wedman, a native Vancouverite, is well known for his…


Guaranteed to fail?

Waiting for Superman has an axe to grind with the American education system, asking questions about why it’s declining, the kids who are trapped in…



Cabane fever

Canadian choreographer and dancer Paul-André Fortier’s latest work steps outside the boundaries of dance. Cabane, the latest work by one of Quebec’s best-known dancers, incorporates…



Tron­-sendent

Editor’s note: Some people on the Manitoban staff are really into the film Tron and its sequel Tron: Legacy. And by “into it” I mean,…


The grad school blues

Applying to grad school is quickly becoming the bane of my existence: it is time consuming, costly, and more or less unnecessary. Basically, I am…



Smells

It happened in a classroom in Tier, where the desks are small and cramped. Where bodies slip into their seats, like folders in a filing…