CD Review : Yeasayer, “Odd Blood”
Yeasayer’s Odd Blood has been one of this year’s the most highly anticipated indie albums. It follows the Brooklyn psychedelic rockers’ creative and experimental 2007…
Arts & Culture
CD Review: Hawksley Workman, “Meat”
I am throwing my hands up in the air. When I listen to an album, I try my hardest to find some kind of pattern….
CD Review : Courtney Farquhar “Nowhere I’d Rather Be”
I’ll admit, this album caught my eye. Courtney on the cover sitting in the grass, all legs and cut-off jean shorts in a retro flower…
All the City’s a Stage : Sarasvati Productions
All the City’s a Stage” is a continuing look at local independent theatre companies in Winnipeg. This week: Sarasvati Productions Theatre dates back to the…
Grrrls, Grrrls, Grrrls
“Riotgrrrl is [ . . . ] because we are angry at a society that tells us Girls = dumb, Girl = bad, Girl =…
Graduate! It’s like, whatever.
So you’re graduating soon! Going out into the “real world” to be an “adult,” without the downy cushion of studenthood beneath your head. Good luck…
False Dichotomies
False Dichotomies is a continuing column that unfairly pits two things against one another to determine, definitively, which is better. This week: watching the entire…
The Realest
Walking through Kristjana Wood’s exhibition is much like going through a nature interpretation center or an aquarium. These exquisitely rendered paintings each focus on a…
Mother Lover
What does the 30 Years’ War — which involved most of 17th century Europe — have in common with contemporary society, particularly one viewed through…
Musical Memory : The Headbanging Fraud
Attending concerts has never been my calling. Instead, I had always chosen to listen to music free of charge, by blasting terrestrial radio stations and…