She’s so heavy
Imagine Franz Kafka, but without the joy and hope. You’ll arrive at Caryl Churchill’s Fen — a play as bleak as the landscape from which…
Arts & Culture
Just the fax
We are constantly reminded how technology is rapidly developing and changing our world. Apple just announced its new product — the iPad — a handy…
New music, Ho!
The 2010 Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival is set to kick off this Saturday. In anticipation, the Manitoban’s John Herbert Cunningham spoke with WSO…
R.I.P-HOP?
If hip hop’s not dead then, according to Timbaland, it is at least seriously ill. The producer recently said publicly that rap’s just not the…
Yes? Yes — Yes. Yes . . . Yes!
If you know anything about theatre, you know of Harold Pinter. And if you’ve heard of Harold Pinter, you know that he loves his pauses….
Essentially a Playlist : ‘Dad’ doesn’t equal ‘bad’
Last year in these very pages, The Deep Dark Woods’ Winter Hours was panned — much to my chagrin. And while records get negative reviews…
CD review – Neon Indian “Psychic Chasms”
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,…
CD review – Will Bonness “Subtle Fire”
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…
CD review : Thousand Foot Krutch “Welcome to the Masquerade”
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,…
Awkward Overtures
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…