Arts & Culture
CD Review: Hawksley Workman, “Meat”
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I am throwing my hands up in the air.
When I listen to an album, I try my hardest to find some kind of pattern. I ask myself, “Why did this artist put these...
CD Review : Courtney Farquhar “Nowhere I’d Rather Be”
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I’ll admit, this album caught my eye. Courtney on the cover sitting in the grass, all legs and cut-off jean shorts in a retro flower printed blouse. Then on the back of the case,...
All the City’s a Stage : Sarasvati Productions
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All the City's a Stage” is a continuing look at local independent theatre companies in Winnipeg.
This week: Sarasvati Productions
Theatre dates back to the Greeks and the Dionysia festival, where both the tragedy and...
Grrrls, Grrrls, Grrrls
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“Riotgrrrl is because we are angry at a society that tells us Girls = dumb, Girl = bad, Girl = weak,” wrote Kathleen Hanna in 1991, as part of The Riot Grrrl Manifesto....
Graduate! It’s like, whatever.
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So you're graduating soon! Going out into the “real world” to be an “adult,” without the downy cushion of studenthood beneath your head. Good luck with that, I'm sure it will work out for...
False Dichotomies
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False Dichotomies is a continuing column that unfairly pits two things against one another to determine, definitively, which is better.
This week: watching the entire Oscar telecast vs. spending a year in prison for...
The Realest
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Walking through Kristjana Wood’s exhibition is much like going through a nature interpretation center or an aquarium. These exquisitely rendered paintings each focus on a single living subject, among them animals, plants, insects and...
