Arts & Culture
Comedic bluff callers
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Winnipeg comedians are finding more ways to make audiences laugh with a live game show called Pants on Fire, where teams try to call each other’s bluffs.
The goal for performers is to guess whether...
Faith Healer returns to Winnipeg
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Faith Healer, an indie pop duo hailing from Edmonton, will be playing Dec. 20 at The Handsome Daughter.
The band has been touring across North America since Nov. 16, and Winnipeg will be one of...
Illustrating hateful history
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Before Dec. 15, local graphic novel author Jamie Michaels hope to raise $2,500 to publish a graphic novel called Christie Pits that tells the story of a race riot in Toronto in 1933. The...
Final farewell
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Local punk band 1971 are saying farewell to fans at their EP release and final concert on Dec. 23. The group decided to disband after the sudden death of their bassist Cameron Cranston in...
Roman Clarke – Looking For Mine, 4/5
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Roman Clarke of The Middle Coast takes on his first solo effort with EP Looking For Mine which just proves that even individually the members of the trio have the Midas touch when it...
Troy Rayner – Demo*lition Day, 4/5
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Acoustic singer-songwriter Troy Rayner, also known as Gentleman Ghost, released his second EP, Demo*lition Day, on Nov. 7, three years after the release of his first EP, Fin. Rayner’s lyrical honesty pulls at the...
Cultural appropriation in the arts
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Manitoba Opera is currently showing Madama Butterfly, a piece previously questioned as being racist or being an example of cultural appropriation. The opera debuted in 1904 and depicts the ill-fated love of a Japanese...







