Let there be a purpose
Celebrating Black History Month is a traditional way of highlighting the accomplishments and cultural values of black people. Although people, mostly from North America, have…
Arts & Culture
Interrupting animals
At the end of Federico Fellini’s Amarcord (1973), a peacock belonging to a local aristocrat escapes from his master’s house and lands in the town…
John Cage on the radio
The Komodo Dragon Show has been on the air on UMFM for over 10 years— same name, same host: the venerable Paul Von Wichert. Von…
Winnipeg in writing
Sometimes it takes a fresh set of eyes to see something for what it is, and this is especially true of Manitoba. Manitoba is at…
The Sadies get hereditary
We, as a society, do not always take well to the idea of inherited privilege. Perhaps we think it’s undemocratic; it conjures up some collective…
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…
Technology for art’s sake
What happens when you give a reference librarian an iPhone and tell her to do something exciting? If you’re Liv Valmestad, a librarian in the…
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,…