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…
Arts & Culture
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…
Sex and the Campus
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…
Yankee Doodle
The Doodle family was at a loss last week when they discovered that their loving father figure, Yankee, had passed on. Although not personally known…
The springs of Springfield: Superintendent Chalmers
Superintendent Chalmers, the man who strikes fear in the heart of principal Seymour Skinner, is a thoroughly boring man. His no-nonsense attitude and stern demeanor…
The springs of Springfield: Gil Gunderson
As I sit down to write this, nestled within the sundry walls of the Manitoban office, I’m receiving some flak from other writers about my…