Arts & Culture

How often does a play come along that has the audience rollicking with laughter while, at the same time, ripping their hearts out? Kevin Loring’s play Where the Blood Mixes began its life several years...

Advice for people going to see Headspace: you should probably turn off your cell-phones. If it goes off, neither the actors nor the audience will bother to mock you; the script does that for...

“Winnipeg is known nationally and internationally as a real hot bed of visual arts,” said Shawna Dempsey, co-director of Mentoring Artist’s for Women’s Art (MAWA). Dempsey would know; she is a well-regarded performance and...

The recent brouhaha over changing lyrics to our national anthem (personally, I like Gail Asper’s suggestion of “in all of us command” over “thou dost”) got me thinking about lyrics. Not just the casually...

Long a fan of Joanna Newsom, there’s no way that I can possibly provide a neutral, unbiased review here. Sorry. She could record herself making hand-to-armpit fart noises for three hours and I would be...

It was only two years ago that Montreal-based DJ Champion (Maxime Morin) became a household name across the country with his hit single, “No Heaven.” Often referred to as the Canadian version of Moby,...

We’re apparently in the third phase of the amalgamated rap/alterna-hip hop/techno/rock ensemble evolution that is Gorillaz. In case you don’t much keep up with Damon Albarn, when the Britpop icon isn’t entertaining with Blur...