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….
Arts & Culture
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…
Doughboys
Hello Doughboys Where is your war today? Vietnam’s nitroglycerin jungles weren’t enough, Now that the jungles are stained red The sand has to be painted…
Yore Lore:
“Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells, Courts her young navies, and the storm repels” — Erasmus Darwin In the 1980s, North America was invaded….