Arts & Culture
Ways to survive Winnipeg public transit in Winnipeg’s deep freeze
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It’s crazy. At the beginning of each and every month students line up by the hundreds in University Centre to get their hands on a bus pass for the next month. Even in the...
Bringing Strindberg’s dreams to life
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Every year, Winnipeg’s Master Playwright Festival honours a playwright whose work has been significant to the craft and inspiring to audiences and fellow playwrights alike. This year the playwright of choice is August Strindberg,...
Unnecessary Review
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Holy shit you guys, I have something pretty special to talk about.
In recent years popular media has evolved from standard-def to hi-def, then hi-def to three-dimensional. I’m here to tell you that the third-dimension...
More guns, less whimsy
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The Green Hornet has suffered from the expectations it created. While the film is — as I write this — the highest grossing currently in theatres, 79 per cent of top critics have panned...
Recital probe
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Classical musicians from the University of Manitoba’s faculty of music are trying to change the way we consume music by performing outside of organized orchestral concerts. People like Charmaine Bacon, flutist and Marcel A....
Five Questions
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Five Questions is a continuing column in which we pose a
different artist the same five crucial questions.
One:
The Manitoban: What substance or activity do you find
to be creativity-producing?
Enjoy Your Pumas: Spinach.
Two:
M: Who is...
Dude, bro
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The first major comedic release of 2011 is Ron Howard’s The Dilemma. Despite being marketed as a buddy film in the same vein as 2009’s I Love You, Man, audiences might be disappointed to...
