Wellek, Felix and the sacred orders
Fairbanks Community Centre. There were eleven of them. Slouching, wretched failures, waiting, just as he ordered, warming up the eight lonely rows of rusted steel…
Arts & Culture
Smells
It happened in a classroom in Tier, where the desks are small and cramped. Where bodies slip into their seats, like folders in a filing…
Do futuristic games have 8-bit beat?
I lay there bleeding from the sizeable hole on my chest, just before my left shoulder. I knew that the end would come soon. A…
Turning 18 . . . meh
On Jan. 16, 2011, I turned 18 years old. Yes, I turned 18 in the year 2011. This is the part where you quickly do…
Ways to survive Winnipeg public transit in Winnipeg’s deep freeze
It’s crazy. At the beginning of each and every month students line up by the hundreds in University Centre to get their hands on a…
Bringing Strindberg’s dreams to life
Every year, Winnipeg’s Master Playwright Festival honours a playwright whose work has been significant to the craft and inspiring to audiences and fellow playwrights alike….
Unnecessary Review
Holy shit you guys, I have something pretty special to talk about. In recent years popular media has evolved from standard-def to hi-def, then hi-def…
More guns, less whimsy
The Green Hornet has suffered from the expectations it created. While the film is — as I write this — the highest grossing currently in…
Recital probe
Classical musicians from the University of Manitoba’s faculty of music are trying to change the way we consume music by performing outside of organized orchestral…
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…