Canada: An American experience
When traveling to an unfamiliar nation, the wise take opportunity to learn about the land, its culture, practices and concerns. Clearly, one takes into consideration…
Arts & Culture
The inner workings of a music store
Music is a driving force in our culture today. Simply look to the fairly recent invention of the mp3 player and the iPod and you…
How not to park a car
Like the downtown area of every major city in the world, Vienna’s is largely made up of one-way streets. Even though I was aware of…
The leaves aren’t green anymore
A couple of weeks ago September was swept away by a breeze of nonchalant copper leaves. Classes officially start in beginning of September, but things…
Sex and the campus
Thanksgiving, the time of year when you stop and be thankful for what you have. A lot of the time, it seems like when you…
CD review: Jen Lane, For the Night
Don’t be fooled by the cover art of Jen Lane’s For The Night: this is not the urban folk-pop it would appear to be at…
D.O.A. on mediocrity, punk and the Canadian lumberjack look
Journalist Bob Mersereau’s new book The Top 100 Canadian Singles has reduced our musical history to sort of a baby boomer version of a Guy…
CD review: Amanda Palmer, Amanda Palmer Performs the Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele
APPTPHOROHMU is an indie pop album by the ever-fascinating, possibly insane, Dresden Dolls front-woman. As an avid Radiohead fan, I can say that I’ve seen…
School of art students star in NYC artist’s latest work
Students at the University of Manitoba’s school of fine art comprised the majority of cast and crew at a recent shoot by a visiting artist….
Case 39 aims low, misses
Case 39, like many horror movies, relies heavily on the devices and themes of its genre. While some of these are successfully employed, the film’s…