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…
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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…
Get your Yukon
Yukon Blonde, Kelowna-born Vancouver indie rockers, will begin their latest tour at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on Feb. 18 — one year since the…
Even in Dafoe, gossip flows freely
The first floor of Dafoe Library is notorious for its hustle-and-bustle, chatty and noisy, heavily trafficked nature. This part of the library is for those…
Wading through a sea of vibrating gloves and leather paddles
If there’s one thing that makes people more uncomfortable than talking about sex, it’s talking about sex toys. Although we’re well into the 21st century,…
The philosophy of love
So, it is now after Valentine’s Day. Some of you may have had a night to remember, while others had a night they wish to…