Arts & Culture

The UMFM Show Spotlight is monthly column showcasing various programming on the University of Manitoba's campus and community radio station. To recommend a show for spotlight, contact [email protected] Looking for a local music fix? UMFM's...

There’s something quiet about spaghetti westerns. The storylines are basic enough: enigmatic cowboy hero draws-and-fires his way to the bottom of the human condition. But even during the most raucous of gun battles, that...

On Dec. 19, 2008, a group of musicians under the leadership of Keith Price assembled at Epiphany Lutheran Church in Winnipeg to record an album. This is the result: straight-ahead neo-bop jazz reminiscent of...

In the past few years, a coterie of musicians, many, if not all, graduates of the University of Manitoba’s School of Music’s Jazz Studies program, have been transforming the music scene in Winnipeg. Amber Epp,...

Dan Fante’s new novel, 86’d, is a rip-roaring novel about a forty-two year old alcoholic, pill-popping loser at life on his last legs. The story is humourous, if you like laughing at people who...

The scene occurs in broad daylight, but everything is gray — the sky, the buildings, the ground, the characters’ faces. Jude Law and Ron Perlman are waiting to jump across an opening in a...

A promise seems to mean nothing until a ring accompanies it. It has long been the tradition that upon asking someone to marry, and as a method of signifying that a person was “claimed,”...