The gold handbell
There once was a young girl who lived in residence at the Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg. One day while walking to class she heard…
Arts & Culture
The jive on jay walking
I drive two vehicles, and not very often at the same time. I drive a large pickup truck for work and my Chevrolet Aveo on…
Back to the grind
So you’re reading the Manitoban again — this probably means that you’re back at school and have fallen into that old routine. Yes, with the…
Insta-foods and you!!!!
University students always seem to be on the run: late for class, catching a bus and constantly in a crazed rush. Have you ever thought…
Chronicles of Mezzezeh: Part 4
Mezzezeh took the liquid from Koomba and he gulped down every drop of it. Instantaneously he felt the potion flowing through his veins and felt…
Genre-hopping
One of the defining aspects of today’s popular culture is its fragmentation. Popular music is divided into such infinitesimally small sub-genres that some bands move…
Essentially A Playlist
Well I was all set to write about resolutions and promises for this playlist, in keeping with the ones we all seem to make at…
Awaiting a Curve ball
A swing and a miss. It was a valiant effort, but in its two-year life span Winnipeg radio listeners remained unreceptive to the pop alternative…
Blinded by City Lights
Much like Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus, City Lights is a film that exists for its ending alone, a “comedy romance in pantomime” as the opening…
The noughties in Asian cinema
For the past month, arts and culture sections in newspapers and magazines have been filled with top 10s, fives and perhaps a few top 14s,…