Arts & Culture

Mezzezeh took the liquid from Koomba and he gulped down every drop of it. Instantaneously he felt the potion flowing through his veins and felt his intestines twisting as he held his stomach, falling...

One of the defining aspec­­ts of today’s popular culture is its fragmentation. Popular music is divided into such infinitesimally small sub-genres that some bands move in and out of them with each album. In...

Well I was all set to write about resolutions and promises for this playlist, in keeping with the ones we all seem to make at this time of year, but I was finding far...

A swing and a miss. It was a valiant effort, but in its two-year life span Winnipeg radio listeners remained unreceptive to the pop alternative pitched by Curve 94.3 FM. CHUM Radio had high...

Much like Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus, City Lights is a film that exists for its ending alone, a “comedy romance in pantomime” as the opening title indicates, which, in 1930, makes it even more...

For the past month, arts and culture sections in newspapers and magazines have been filled with top 10s, fives and perhaps a few top 14s, but no discussion of the three most important and...

Lake Superior State University — longstanding arbiter of taste and go-to state university for word-banishing — declared the word “epic” banned for 2011. Along with “viral,” “fail” and “Facebook” as a verb, “epic” is...