Arts & Culture
A play within a play on Royal MTC stage
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Alice Childress was almost the first Black woman playwright to have her work appear on Broadway in 1955 with her wry and potent meta-comedy Trouble in Mind.
But when producers requested a happier ending and...
UMFM show spotlight — ‘Scary Hours’
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After dark, after hours, demon time, scary hours.
Things slow down at night, things feel different in the dark, and the spirits and emotions that stay hidden during the day rise up.
We all have dark...
Festival du Voyageur as a first-timer
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Despite living in Winnipeg for nearly a decade, I had never attended Festival du Voyageur before this year, even with the high acclaim it has received from all my friends who were born and...
Nevertheless, they are ‘Still Here’
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Ukrainian U25 Men’s National Team forward Gleb Krivoshapkin distinctly remembers the day his family learned that the Russian army had invaded their city last February. They were prepared to defend themselves with what they...
’Toban about town — Coffee Culture
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Aside from a few chains sporadically peppering Pembina highway, Winnipeg South is sorely lacking coffeehouses. Even a few of the Starbucks locations that used to work as base camps for rogue U of M...
Andy Shauf, ‘Norm’ — 4/5 Stars
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Saskatchewan-born singer-songwriter Andy Shauf is a consummate storyteller. This reputation has followed him around for his entire career, and he seems quite happy to perpetuate it.
Shauf’s earlier work fit firmly into the storytelling idiom...
Grief as love in ‘Heart Like a Pow Wow’
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A collection of animated shorts made by Indigenous creators was released on the free streaming service CBC Gem Jan. 27. How To Lose Everything is a five-episode series that explores loss.
One of the shorts,...







