R.I.P-HOP?
If hip hop’s not dead then, according to Timbaland, it is at least seriously ill. The producer recently said publicly that rap’s just not the…
Arts & Culture
Yes? Yes — Yes. Yes . . . Yes!
If you know anything about theatre, you know of Harold Pinter. And if you’ve heard of Harold Pinter, you know that he loves his pauses….
Essentially a Playlist : ‘Dad’ doesn’t equal ‘bad’
Last year in these very pages, The Deep Dark Woods’ Winter Hours was panned — much to my chagrin. And while records get negative reviews…
CD review – Neon Indian “Psychic Chasms”
Alan Palomo isn’t just another electronic musician reveling in the by-gone sounds and (excessive) glam of the 1980s. In fact, the founder of the Austin,…
CD review – Will Bonness “Subtle Fire”
Jazz pianist Will Bonness is one of the young lions of the up-and-coming Winnipeg musicians that have arrived as a result of the U of…
CD review : Thousand Foot Krutch “Welcome to the Masquerade”
Somebody needs to tell Thousand Foot Krutch that rap-core died with Limp Bizkit and the first couple Linkin Park albums. The California trio’s latest offering,…
Awkward Overtures
With cameras and photographs so readily available, photographic art has some challenges ahead in order to define itself. How does a contemporary photographer make work…
(black) and white face
The world is chock-full of secretaries who exhaust their days processing paper and questioning why they bothered to wax their legs at all when it…
Words from the last reality TV junkie
The rise of reality TV in the last 10 years has marked many top 10 lists summarizing our last decade. And before the big scare…
When and wear
Copy: With a decade closing recently, the white of winter fading to grey, the flecks of our skin washing out way past pale, it’s fair…