Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Following the Ten Commandments

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Lauren Siddall
New York photography duo Andrea Robbins and Max Becher began photographing and researching monuments of the Ten Commandments when living in the southern United States. “We started photographing and researching the subject and were surprised...
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The late, great Salvador Dalí

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Ian T. D. Thomson
n Nov. 15, the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) presented a lecture by Elliot King, an art historian and expert on surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Part of the WAG’s ongoing exhibit, Dalí Up Close, King’s...
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The Reality of Storm Chasing

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Carlyn Schellenberg
The upcoming documentary, The Reality of Storm Chasing, set to be filmed by local storm chaser Francis Lavigne-Theriault, chronicles storm chasing experts in the United States and Canada. Lavigne-Theriault, a University of Manitoba atmospheric sciences...
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Tribology: merging medicine and art

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Lauren Siddall
Cre8ery’s latest exhibit, Tribology by Helene Girard, amalgamates medical terminology and visual art to create a showing concentrated on the effects of interactive movement through textures. Girard associates the language of medicine in the titles...
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

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Ian T. D. Thomson
“If you want to kill me, you better hurry, because I’m a hundred years old” – Allan Karlsson. Best-selling Swedish novel The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared tells the tale...
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Comfort food for thought: the Store Next Door

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Michelle Saromo
Even before popular restaurant Chew opened on Waterloo Street in the River Heights neighbourhood in 2013, owners Kristen Chemerika-Lew and Kyle Lew had always wanted a store right beside their restaurant. “We called it a...
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Sitting down with the Strumbellas

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Lauren Siddall
Toronto-based band, the Strumbellas, have seen massive success this past year. Between their Juno win for “Folk and Traditional Album of the Year,” their Sirius Indie Award for “Folk/Roots Album of the Year,” and...

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