Arts & Culture
Let there be a purpose
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Celebrating Black History Month is a traditional way of highlighting the accomplishments and cultural values of black people. Although people, mostly from North America, have actively participated in this kind of celebration, the relative...
Interrupting animals
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At the end of Federico Fellini’s Amarcord (1973), a peacock belonging to a local aristocrat escapes from his master’s house and lands in the town square. It’s snowing at the time and the film’s...
John Cage on the radio
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The Komodo Dragon Show has been on the air on UMFM for over 10 years— same name, same host: the venerable Paul Von Wichert. Von Wichert is a U of M faculty of music...
Winnipeg in writing
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Sometimes it takes a fresh set of eyes to see something for what it is, and this is especially true of Manitoba. Manitoba is at the same time introverted and outward-looking. Few of us...
The Sadies get hereditary
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We, as a society, do not always take well to the idea of inherited privilege. Perhaps we think it’s undemocratic; it conjures up some collective memory of monarchy that we’d rather not think about....
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?
Matt Schellenberg of The Liptonians: Bolthouse...
Diaristic documentaries
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From Feb. 11-13, the Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque will be hosting Alan Zweig, one of Canada’s greatest documentary filmmakers, with a retrospective of some of his best works. Cinematheque is not alone in highlighting...
