Arts & Culture

In the past few years, a coterie of musicians, many, if not all, graduates of the University of Manitoba’s School of Music’s Jazz Studies program, have been transforming the music scene in Winnipeg. Amber Epp,...

Dan Fante’s new novel, 86’d, is a rip-roaring novel about a forty-two year old alcoholic, pill-popping loser at life on his last legs. The story is humourous, if you like laughing at people who...

The scene occurs in broad daylight, but everything is gray — the sky, the buildings, the ground, the characters’ faces. Jude Law and Ron Perlman are waiting to jump across an opening in a...

A promise seems to mean nothing until a ring accompanies it. It has long been the tradition that upon asking someone to marry, and as a method of signifying that a person was “claimed,”...

The Doodle family was at a loss last week when they discovered that their loving father figure, Yankee, had passed on. Although not personally known to many, Yankee Doodle was famous in his...

Superintendent Chalmers, the man who strikes fear in the heart of principal Seymour Skinner, is a thoroughly boring man. His no-nonsense attitude and stern demeanor do nothing to indicate that he has any sense...

As I sit down to write this, nestled within the sundry walls of the Manitoban office, I’m receiving some flak from other writers about my choice of character. In this instance, the character is...