Arts & Culture

School I only ended up having maybe three actual meetings with each professor. Both classes required one paper, both of which are now finished, and I have one oral exam next week. I’m not saying that...

The Crocs The Rio Tarcoles, just north of Jaco, Costa Rica, is home to the largest crocodile population in the Americas. There’s a bridge over the Tarcoles that one crosses to leave Jaco for the...

This past Tuesday evening I witnessed a rarity — the recorder (that instrument you probably played in elementary school music class) used in a contemporary chamber setting. Michala Petri is a recorder virtuoso. It...

“My favourite emotion, laughing through tears,” said Clairee Belcher (Susan Clarke), one of the six memorable characters who inhabit Truvy’s Beauty Salon. The packed house at MTC on the opening night of Steel Magnolias...

One word can sum up my experience of the Prairie Theater Exchange’s (PTE) production of Glorious! It says it right there in my title. Need I really go on? I hesitate because giving a...

How often is it that you get to see classical music being performed without the presence of a conductor or violins? If you’re answer is never, you’re almost right; that “almost” is thanks to...

Whether she is hanging decaying rabbit carcasses from trees or drawing popular cartoon characters caught in acts of domestic violence, Winnipeg-based artist Diana Thorneycroft knows how to use shock value to engage the public...