Arts & Culture

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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When you grow up in a world of rules it’s often difficult to suddenly have to play a game blind, without knowledge of what is expected and what is not allowed. To grow up...