Arts & Culture

The scene occurs in broad daylight, but everything is gray — the sky, the buildings, the ground, the characters’ faces. Jude Law and Ron Perlman are waiting to jump across an opening in a...

A promise seems to mean nothing until a ring accompanies it. It has long been the tradition that upon asking someone to marry, and as a method of signifying that a person was “claimed,”...

The Doodle family was at a loss last week when they discovered that their loving father figure, Yankee, had passed on. Although not personally known to many, Yankee Doodle was famous in his...

Superintendent Chalmers, the man who strikes fear in the heart of principal Seymour Skinner, is a thoroughly boring man. His no-nonsense attitude and stern demeanor do nothing to indicate that he has any sense...

As I sit down to write this, nestled within the sundry walls of the Manitoban office, I’m receiving some flak from other writers about my choice of character. In this instance, the character is...

Hello Doughboys Where is your war today? Vietnam’s nitroglycerin jungles weren’t enough, Now that the jungles are stained red The sand has to be painted With new swords unspoiled That are built to destroy the plow To not be beaten And tear...

“Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells, Courts her young navies, and the storm repels” — Erasmus Darwin In the 1980s, North America was invaded. Mad Max tore up our screens. AC/DC tore up our...