Beats without borders
Hip hop has long been a platform for political messages. Starting out in the Bronx in New York City, MCs would use powerful rhythmic vocals…
Arts & Culture
A new noise
Crowds. Lights. A new noise. I stumble into the Toad on Osborne. The vast hum of the outside world recedes behind me, overcome by the…
A rainbow of chaos
Amongst the clutter of the forty paintings that compromise Milos Milidrag’s A Global Inuit (Sex, Jokes and Polar Bears), I was immediately drawn to a…
TV in the cinema
TV is often hailed as the greatest mass communications advance of the 20th-century, but viewers worldwide are being challenged to do away with it this…
UMFM Show Spotlight : The Scene
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…
CD Review – The Dead Letters “The Dead Letters” EP
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…
CD Review – Keith Price “Breakfast of Champions”
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….
Amber Alert
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,…
Booze cruisin’ to the bottom
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…
Yore Lore: The battle of Stalingrad
The scene occurs in broad daylight, but everything is gray — the sky, the buildings, the ground, the characters’ faces. Jude Law and Ron Perlman…