Musical Memory
Moshing is a thrilling experience for some, and a piss-your-pants-scary experience for others. Me, I fall into the latter category, though I did not, in…
Arts & Culture
Lazy days and the indifferent gaze
The leaves rust and the sky turns white like clay. With heavy resignation, we consign our Chip & Pepper wetwear and cut-offs to the furthest…
Yore Lore: Salman Rushdie
Most of us have heard of Salman Rushdie. It may be no more than remembering a Seinfeld episode in which Kramer is convinced that he…
The nature of time and ‘now’
We all know that we cannot change the past, and the future is yet to come. As a consequence of what happens today, and what…
Binding feminism and art
Books, scrapbooks or diaries can often take on an unparalleled power, becoming physical means of personal expression, memories and creative growth. To this end, 10…
The springs of Springfield: Jimbo Jones
It seems like a cliché now that bullies, while aggressive and cruel, are really sad, pathetic individuals with little to no self esteem. Jimbo Jones…
Sex and the campus
We all know that people act strangely in certain situations, but why is it that an almost impossibly dramatic change occurs when we go on…
Static prevails
Send and Receive, Winnipeg’s annual festival of sound, is on again this week and there’s nary a hook, harmony or hand-clap to be heard. Instead,…
An infected trio of swine and the huge, horrifying canine
Another major flu epidemic may well be underway. We all remember the disaster of SARS a few years ago, West-Nile virus has made many headlines…
Hurl from a top window
In his first work of creative non-fiction, the 13-year old Eric Valdemar wrote about war and childhood. Inspired by his hometown of Rostock in northern…