This week in violence
Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil: Afterlife and Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis’ Machete both opened this month and both are stupid. Why then, has Machete…
Arts & Culture
Hip replacement
This is not the first time I’ve been asked to write about hipsters, and judging by the topic’s current popularity, one would be inclined to…
Sex and the campus
You might not be quite aware of it, since it has become such a part of your daily life, but you’re in a love affair,…
Coffee music: The guide
There was a time when even Starbucks, now fast becoming the exclusive domain of sugar-crazed teenagers, was filled with safe but tasteful music. When I…
More than the sum of its parts
Higgins Avenue in Winnipeg is well known . . . for all the wrong reasons. The Graffiti Gallery, nestled between Waterfront Drive and Gomez Street,…
A record of how I felt then
Middle-class suburbia is not the stuff of legend. As far as its depiction in art is concerned, it is stucco sprawl, vapid and neatly fenced,…
Campus Spotlight: Ignatius Mabasa
A writer and storyteller from Zimbabwe, Ignatius Mabasa has just arrived to the U of M’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture (CCWOC) as…
And the Polaris Music Prize goes to…
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Sex and the campus
When you grow up in a world of rules it’s often difficult to suddenly have to play a game blind, without knowledge of what is…
Alone, but still strong
“You mean you’re traveling alone?” is a question I am asked nearly every single day. In truth, yes, I am traveling alone. But that’s not…