Arts & Culture
Frighteningly funny
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This Halloween the musical improv comedy group Outside Joke is teaming up with the Dungeons and Dragons Improv Show to kick off their fourth season of comedy at the Gas Station Arts Centre.
Outside Joke...
The Sumner Brothers – “The Hell in Your Mind”, 4/5
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Picture a wave undulating in a heavy storm on a nippy and overcast day. It is a dark and dangerous sight, but it calms you nevertheless. That feeling is what the Sumner Brothers have...
Ben Caplan and the Casual Smokers – “Birds with Broken Wings”,...
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With absolutely no surprise, Ben Caplan and the Casual Smokers’ sophomore album perches atop Canadian community and campus radio magazine !earshot’s national folk/roots/blues chart.
The album opens with a beautifully twisted and villainous song called...
Why tapes are great
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Millennials quiver with excitement at the sight of anything tacky, nostalgic or vintage. It became not a question of if, but when a genius and soon-to-be billionaire would begin the audio cassette revival when...
Why tapes aren’t that great
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Nostalgia can be an extremely powerful motivator. If a significant object of one’s past is no longer widely available or relevant, then a sense of nostalgia will often amplify and create a great demand...
Ready, set, art
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As artists, friends, family, and curious spectators arrived at the lobby of the Centennial Concert Hall on Oct. 9, six easels patiently awaited 20-minute masterpieces constructed by the paintbrushes of 12 talented locals for...
Of basements and barrooms
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The 90s birthed many of the University of Manitoba’s current students as well as huge noise and punk rock bands like Nirvana, Hole, Propagandhi, and Kittens.
The latter two emerged from little isolated Winnipeg.
Despite producing...






