Arts & Culture
Not over the Hill
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On Jan. 4, 2007, at the age of 36, animator Helen Hill was murdered, for no known reason, in her home in the midst of hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans. This tragic end exists in...
It’s a wonderful play (within a play)
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The Manitoba Theatre Centre celebrated their 52nd anniversary with the opening of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, an engaging and entertaining twist on Frank Capra's much-loved traditional holiday classic. Philip Grecian's inventive...
CD Review : Mike Roe “We All Gonna Face the Rising...
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Holy fuck!
I swear to God, I said those words, out loud, multiple times during my initial listen to Mike Roe’s history of southern gospel music, We All Gonna Face the Rising Sun.
Perhaps it speaks...
CD Review : The xx “The xx”
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There's something undeniably refreshing about a group of 20-year-olds writing and self-producing one of the best albums of 2009. I’m referring here to The xx, a dream pop foursome out of South London —...
Bras off, bottoms up
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I walked up the stairs to Out of Line Theatre's production of Le Mort in utter terror. Wouldn't you be completely terrified if the website for a play showcased a naked woman's crotch drenched...
Opera, LOL
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I'm gonna get that waaaabbit” is what Elmer Fudd sang to the Overture of Gioachino Rossin's The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) as he was out hunting Bugs Bunny. But, in truth,...
When and wear
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Reincarnation, on Dictionary.com is defined as “the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.” Metaphysical inconsequential crap aside, generally speaking, I’m willing to...
