Arts & Culture
JR Charron — ‘Impression,’ 3/5
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What do you say about a record like JR Charron’s Impression? Its instant familiarity and country-radio soundalike style is part of the appeal, its lack of innovation a boon rather than a legitimate criticism....
Creative freedom in a restrictive time
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PETRIC — Jordan Day, Jason Petric and his brother Tom — are experiencing a bit of cognitive dissonance. After years under an exacting label, they’ve finally managed to make the record they’d always sought...
An experimental exhibition in more ways than one
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Presented by the PLATFORM Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, 시험/ تست / yeèhdzà / test is an exhibition that showcases four school of art graduate students from the U of M — Casey...
Braedan Hafichuk — ‘Shimmering Basin’
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It's been a month of firsts for Ominous Walrus Publications, whose debut offering is the first issue of a fantastical action-comedy comic book series by Braedan Hafichuk titled Shimmering Basin.
Hafichuk, who has loved fantasy...
Winnipeg comic book creator dishes on his debut series
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When someone brings up the fantasy genre, what typically comes to mind? Long epics, powerful, righteous heroes and a great evil, often in the form of a dragon.
These tired tropes are exactly what U...
U of M student launches publishing company
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A third-year student studying global political economy at the University of Manitoba has founded her own independent publishing company.
The Mandi Inspiration Publishing House promises “to be the soul of creativity.” The company initially...
Vagina Witchcraft — ‘Vagina Witchcraft,’ 4/5
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Vagina Witchcraft’s debut record doesn’t open with a scream or sludgy riff, but a missive, spoken with such raw feeling as to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up: “I...







