Arts & Culture
Back to the grind
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So you’re reading the Manitoban again — this probably means that you’re back at school and have fallen into that old routine. Yes, with the new year comes the new semester, dragging us from...
Insta-foods and you!!!!
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University students always seem to be on the run: late for class, catching a bus and constantly in a crazed rush. Have you ever thought about what you are eating while you are on...
Chronicles of Mezzezeh: Part 4
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Mezzezeh took the liquid from Koomba and he gulped down every drop of it.
Instantaneously he felt the potion flowing through his veins and felt his intestines twisting as he held his stomach, falling...
Genre-hopping
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One of the defining aspects of today’s popular culture is its fragmentation. Popular music is divided into such infinitesimally small sub-genres that some bands move in and out of them with each album. In...
Essentially A Playlist
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Well I was all set to write about resolutions and promises for this playlist, in keeping with the ones we all seem to make at this time of year, but I was finding far...
Awaiting a Curve ball
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A swing and a miss. It was a valiant effort, but in its two-year life span Winnipeg radio listeners remained unreceptive to the pop alternative pitched by Curve 94.3 FM.
CHUM Radio had high...
Blinded by City Lights
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Much like Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus, City Lights is a film that exists for its ending alone, a “comedy romance in pantomime” as the opening title indicates, which, in 1930, makes it even more...
