Arts & Culture

1,000 B.C. Mezzezeh woke up to the buzzing alarm of the mosquitoes dancing by his ears. Lethargically, he rolled off his bed. Today he didn’t feel like a kata: a ruler of the highest worship...

Wintersleep broke out in 2007 with the release of Welcome to the Night Sky, their third studio album. Currently on tour promoting their fourth album, 2010’s New Inheritors, Jon Samuel — a member of...

Last February I attended a lecture on the rise of feminist art at Video Pool as part of Oliver Botar’s contemporary art history class. Among the films shown was Carolee Schneemann’s 1964 performance Meat...

Sweetgrass Directed by: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor Opening on Nov. 12 ★★★ out of 5 After viewing the documentary Sweetgrass, the end credits explain what was just depicted: a 300 kilometre sheep-herding expedition through rural Montana....

For 32 years Victoria jazz-punks NoMeansNo have lived apart from the sleazy beast known as the music industry. Now that the rest of the world has also turned its back on this ever-diminishing creature,...

Unnecessary Reviews is a column where things are reviewed in a manner that is unnecessary. They say you can’t keep a good dog down. Just like the films Anaconda, Saw III and Vampire in Brooklyn that...

Having been born and bred on the prairies I suppose I should be used to the glaring futility of shoveling snow. I’m sure we’ve all reached that point when we realize, not only has...