Arts & Culture

“Winnipeg is known nationally and internationally as a real hot bed of visual arts,” said Shawna Dempsey, co-director of Mentoring Artist’s for Women’s Art (MAWA). Dempsey would know; she is a well-regarded performance and...

The recent brouhaha over changing lyrics to our national anthem (personally, I like Gail Asper’s suggestion of “in all of us command” over “thou dost”) got me thinking about lyrics. Not just the casually...

Long a fan of Joanna Newsom, there’s no way that I can possibly provide a neutral, unbiased review here. Sorry. She could record herself making hand-to-armpit fart noises for three hours and I would be...

It was only two years ago that Montreal-based DJ Champion (Maxime Morin) became a household name across the country with his hit single, “No Heaven.” Often referred to as the Canadian version of Moby,...

We’re apparently in the third phase of the amalgamated rap/alterna-hip hop/techno/rock ensemble evolution that is Gorillaz. In case you don’t much keep up with Damon Albarn, when the Britpop icon isn’t entertaining with Blur...

Just like video killed the radio star, online shopping has sent many traditional businesses the way of the dodo. We have seen the ramifications of the digital world in Canada, with two of the...

Voyeurs During the summer of 1964, I was employed as a student research assistant in the U of M anthropology lab, and so it was particularly convenient for me to reside right there on campus....