Arts & Culture
CD Review: Bjork, Biophilia
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Biophilia is the eighth full-length studio album from avant-garde darling Bjork. Ten tracks released with accompanying individual apps for each of the songs turn the music into “a visualization of songs,” Bjork said on...
Sound Off
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Sound Off is a continuing column in which we pose different artists the same series of crucial questions.
In his second studio album under the Arts and Crafts banner, Oh, Fortune, Dan Mangan looks to...
Point / Counterpoint
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Point / Counterpoint is a platform in which two parties discuss pertinent cultural issues from opposing sides. It’s a real debate, and like any honest fight, there are winners and losers. This is the...
Ten great things
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Tis the season for tales of terror! But I have to admit that scary movies just don’t do it for me. Long before corn syrup was used as an on-screen substitute for fake blood, books...
Places for Peanuts
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I looked up at the walls of the Edge Gallery, awestruck. Small postcard-sized drawings were everywhere, covering the walls like tiny freckles.
The Edge Gallery sits on the periphery of the downtown area, off...
Todd & the Book of Pure Evil
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There’s something uncannily charming about Todd & the Book of Pure Evil. The show debuted last fall on the Space network and was filmed right here in Winnipeg. The series begins when Todd Smith,...
Book review: MetaMaus
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It’s been more than 20 years since the original release of Art Spiegelman’s two volume holocaust epic, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, and in that time span the book has become a critical darling, a...
