CD Review : Corb Lund “Losin Lately Gambler”
The first song I heard on Corb Lund’s new album, Losin’ Lately Gambler was “A Game in Town Like This,” and, frankly, it filled me…
Arts & Culture
CD Review : NDU “The Rebel Zone”
Hip-Hop is a genre of music but it is more often than not called “rap,” which is technically the vocal style. In many ways, people…
CD Review : Todd Snider “The Excitement Plan”
Todd Snider delivers another dish of country fried good times on his eighth full-length studio album, The Excitement Plan. Fans of Snider’s will find the…
Breau-mance
5 O’clock Bells Directed by Brian Quirt Starring Pierre Brault * out of ** The 2009-10 season opened Oct. 8 with 5 O’clock Bells, a…
Essentially a Playlist
Despite the ever-present threat of terrible weather, I firmly believe October is one of the best months of the year. The hubbub of back-to-school insanity…
All the city’s a stage
At first glance, theatre is an archaic art form, utterly outdone by its more glamorous and accessible counterpart, film. Why, then, is it important that…
Hailing Hoffman
Philip Hoffman, one of Canada’s most critically respected filmmakers, is coming to Winnipeg to attend a retrospective of his short works and a screening of…
‘Regarding heroes’ through a master’s lens
His iconic portraits, full of emotion, thought and care, leave the viewer with no question of his status as a master of light and tone….
WSO creates Romantic sonic boom
On Friday, September 26, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alexander Mickelthwate returned for a brand new season with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No….
Healing wounds with words
Fresh from the release of her second book, Wounded Souls: A Collection of Poems and Songs, and its companion spoken-word CD, Wounded Souls Vol. 1…