Arts & Culture

The Liptonians, a Winnipeg-based indie-rock quintet, are poised for more mainstream success with the release of their second album, Let’s All March Back Into the Sea, scheduled to be released this February. While their...

The University of Manitoba Symphony Orchestra begins its second year under Maestro Richard Lee this week on Oct. 27 with the first of four performances scheduled for the year. The first concert includes works...

If there ever was a series that would have the honour of the title “The Series,” it would be this one. Based off of the national bestselling author Steig Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy comes some...

Perhaps the most compelling aspect of the music of Toronto’s Owen Pallett — classical violinist, composer, founder of Final Fantasy (a name under which he no longer performs) and occasional member of Arcade Fire...

I recently went to Australia to volunteer and travel the beautiful countryside along with some friends in a program called International Student Volunteers. With certain ulterior motives that involved being swept off my feet...

Starting in the spring of 2010 I found myself starting to dabble in the idea of slam poetry. Slam poetry is a kind of poetry that holds true to an antithesis of formality, commonly...

Any avid traveler can testify that leaving a country you have just explored and fallen in love with can be a heart wrenching and difficult thing. I was terribly sad to leave Australia and...