Arts & Culture

The Cat Empire, formed in Australia, is a six-piece fusion band that has managed to fly under the radar while selling millions of albums worldwide. Mixing elements of reggae, jazz, Afro-Cuban, funk and pop...

Local punk rock musician and folk singer Greg Rekus recently released his new full-length album entitled The Dude Abides. Having toured across Canada in 2011, Rekus has set off to promote his new album...

Suspicious Futures: Select Video Work, by Susan Britton, is a collection of videos that, to date, have been out of the public eye for more than 15 years. Britton’s work, to be shown at...

Dear Kara, I'm a student at the U of W and I've never been on a date or kissed a girl before. I am very quiet, a bit anxious and avoidant in general, and I...

Imagine for a minute that you are an artist. You’re local, from Manitoba and eager to showcase your contemporary work in the belief that it will stretch boundaries, shatter expectations and change the landscape...

I didn’t even bother watching the Oscars this year because the only film in the running that I’d seen was Moneyball, so I was spared Billy Crystal’s blackface routine — which apparently wasn’t even...

Islands has always been a band on the periphery of my musical interests. I gave earlier albums Arms Way and Vapours a listen, but was unable to connect. The music was sporadic, unexpectedly beautiful,...