Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Presenting “‘Heritage Minutes’ from hell”

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Zachary Sigurdson
Watching the trailer for Matt Rankin’s The Twentieth Century requires more than a bit of mental gymnastics to realize what the film is actually about. It’s an absurdist film about former Canadian prime minister William...
Arts & Culture

The most wonderful time of the year for holiday classics

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Manitoban staff
It’s that time of year again — holiday movies will be on every channel of the dial for the next month. But what makes a holiday movie a holiday movie? Is The Nightmare Before...
Arts & Culture

Furry fun for a fantastic cause

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Grace Anne Paizen
Although the U of M brings in dogs from time to time as a student mental health initiative, there is a largely unknown way in which students can interact with furry friends on a...
Arts & Culture

Let them eat cake

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Kaelen Bell
The kings of off-kilter, dumb-in-the-smartest-possible-way alternative rock Cake stands among the likes of the B-52s, Ween and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard — bands whose goofiness belies a beating human heart, whose music...
Arts & Culture

Squirrelly Dan’s gots a few words about Christmas

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Zachary Sigurdson
There are few Canadian comedians with as much heart and holiday cheer as K. Trevor Wilson. The award-winning comedian is most famous for his role as Squirrelly Dan in the acclaimed comedy series Letterkenny. In...
Arts & Culture

Building student community through anime

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Zachary Sigurdson
From live-action remakes, to streaming services like Crunchyroll and old-fashioned bootlegs, anime’s continually growing influence on pop culture makes the case that Japanese animation is not quite the niche interest it once was. The potential...
Ernest Zarzuela
Arts & Culture

Manitoba mainstays form local supergroup

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Kaelen Bell
Creating music, touring and exposing oneself to the world — these things are rarely easy. But for the members of New Wales, forming a new band with a combined century of music-industry experience between...

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