Arts & Culture

This is not the first time I’ve been asked to write about hipsters, and judging by the topic’s current popularity, one would be inclined to think members of this species were multiplying rabbit-like. Hipsters!...

You might not be quite aware of it, since it has become such a part of your daily life, but you’re in a love affair, so are your parents, grandparents, friends and professors. Everyone...

There was a time when even Starbucks, now fast becoming the exclusive domain of sugar-crazed teenagers, was filled with safe but tasteful music. When I worked at one in 2004, I heard Ray Charles,...

Higgins Avenue in Winnipeg is well known . . . for all the wrong reasons. The Graffiti Gallery, nestled between Waterfront Drive and Gomez Street, is working to change that perception by adding “cool...

Middle-class suburbia is not the stuff of legend. As far as its depiction in art is concerned, it is stucco sprawl, vapid and neatly fenced, recorded with a grimace by its escapees. Often for...

A writer and storyteller from Zimbabwe, Ignatius Mabasa has just arrived to the U of M’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture (CCWOC) as its writer/storyteller-in-residence for fall 2010. He graciously agreed to...

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