U.S. Girls, ‘Bless This Mess’ — 3/5 Stars
Multi-disciplinary artist and U.S. Girls mastermind Meg Remy never stays in the same place creatively for too long. The Illinois-born, Toronto-based songwriter started the project…
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LARP and the creative Misthaven of Underworld
In the words of Ursula K. Le Guin, people who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons from within. Without the ability…
Reclaiming what it means to be ‘French Enough’
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) kicked off Francophonie Month on March 1 by streaming Fransaskois singer-songwriter and filmmaker Alexis Normand’s 18-minute film French…
Letting out a ‘Big Deep Sigh’
In the post-Phoebe Bridgers indie landscape, confessional songwriting has become the standard, and the more gut-wrenching the better. But what gets lost in this chase…
A play within a play on Royal MTC stage
Alice Childress was almost the first Black woman playwright to have her work appear on Broadway in 1955 with her wry and potent meta-comedy Trouble…
UMFM show spotlight — ‘Scary Hours’
After dark, after hours, demon time, scary hours. Things slow down at night, things feel different in the dark, and the spirits and emotions that…
Festival du Voyageur as a first-timer
Despite living in Winnipeg for nearly a decade, I had never attended Festival du Voyageur before this year, even with the high acclaim it has…
Nevertheless, they are ‘Still Here’
Ukrainian U25 Men’s National Team forward Gleb Krivoshapkin distinctly remembers the day his family learned that the Russian army had invaded their city last February….
’Toban about town — Coffee Culture
Aside from a few chains sporadically peppering Pembina highway, Winnipeg South is sorely lacking coffeehouses. Even a few of the Starbucks locations that used to…
Andy Shauf, ‘Norm’ — 4/5 Stars
Saskatchewan-born singer-songwriter Andy Shauf is a consummate storyteller. This reputation has followed him around for his entire career, and he seems quite happy to perpetuate…