Arts & Culture
Essentially a Playlist : ‘Dad’ doesn’t equal ‘bad’
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Last year in these very pages, The Deep Dark Woods' Winter Hours was panned — much to my chagrin. And while records get negative reviews all the time, what gave me pause was that,...
CD review – Neon Indian “Psychic Chasms”
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Alan Palomo isn’t just another electronic musician reveling in the by-gone sounds and (excessive) glam of the 1980s. In fact, the founder of the Austin, TX-based electropop outfit Neon Indian is anything but. Enigmatically...
CD review – Will Bonness “Subtle Fire”
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Jazz pianist Will Bonness is one of the young lions of the up-and-coming Winnipeg musicians that have arrived as a result of the U of M school of music’s jazz studies program.
It is...
CD review : Thousand Foot Krutch “Welcome to the Masquerade”
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Somebody needs to tell Thousand Foot Krutch that rap-core died with Limp Bizkit and the first couple Linkin Park albums. The California trio's latest offering, their fifth full-length, Welcome to the Masquerade, opens with...
Awkward Overtures
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With cameras and photographs so readily available, photographic art has some challenges ahead in order to define itself. How does a contemporary photographer make work that distinguishes itself, both from everyday snapshots and other...
(black) and white face
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The world is chock-full of secretaries who exhaust their days processing paper and questioning why they bothered to wax their legs at all when it appears that they will be forevermore sheathed in cotton...
Words from the last reality TV junkie
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The rise of reality TV in the last 10 years has marked many top 10 lists summarizing our last decade. And before the big scare of Y2K we never knew the popularity that would...
