Arts & Culture
Come home to the WAG again
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To the joy of many local art lovers, the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) officially reopened May 5 in the wake of COVID-19.
Apart from its first two days of opening which were reserved for frontline...
Stranger things have happened, and we want more
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Bold, bright and colourful — these are the words that best describe the energy emanating from the work of Winnipeg Oji-Cree artist Jordan Stranger.
Originally from Peguis First Nation, Stranger was born into an artistic...
The best seats in the house are in your own home
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During these unprecedented times, society has turned to the arts to fill the hours spent quarantining.
Besides the overwhelming presence of streaming services specifically for television and film, many plays and musicals have also become...
We’ll always have Cinematheque at Home
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With sit-in movie theatres still closed around the province, and if you don’t own a vehicle to attend a drive-in theatre, Winnipeg’s local darling, the Cinematheque, has you covered for a movie night in.
Cinematheque...
The Prairie Joggers — ‘The Prairie Joggers,’ 4/5
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The Prairie Joggers make simple songs with complicated hearts. The Winnipeg duo’s chipper, dust-blown sound is reliant on dense lyricism and memorable melodies rather than any sort of bombast or surprise.
Their debut self-titled EP...
From board to digital
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Alchemists
Matthew Doering, editor-in-chief
Even more soul-sucking than fixating on the daily increase in the spread of COVID-19 may be the absence of research and conferences as our academic lives are turned upside down during this...
Ada Lea — ‘Woman, Here,’ 3.5/5
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Ada Lea’s debut record, 2019’s What We Say in Private, was a prickly and elastic rock composition, built from bent folk guitars and an itching stop-start rhythmic pulse.
Lea’s new EP, Woman, Here, is billed...
