Arts & Culture
H.I.T.S parade
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It is Tuesday evening at the Toad in the Hole on Osborne and everything is as it should be — that is, nothing is out of the ordinary. A rambunctious patron hollers his displeasure...
Classical Rock
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The south-facing exterior wall of the University of Manitoba’s Marcel A. Desautel faculty of music bears the words, “DEMOLISH SERIOUS CULTURE.” Attempts to remove this puzzling imperative from the smooth limestone have been partly...
Welcome to Guantanamo
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Jello Biafra, outspoken punk rock auteur and censorship activist, is coming to town with his new group, the Guantanamo School of Medicine. Biafra is the founder and frontman of the seminal punk group Dead...
Broken hearts and social scenes
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According to what some guy told me, if you have done something for three years or more, you can be an expert witness in a court case. Since I have been watching “concert movies”...
The garden and the wilderness
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Catfish’s tagline is “don’t let anyone tell you what it is .” Along those lines, Eric Eisenberg of cinemablend.com warned, “Sitting down in the theater, you’re truly better off knowing as little about it...
The strange culture of the men’s room
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You are sitting in your cold, hard seat at Canad Inns Stadium. The Blue Bombers are down by less than seven points in the fourth quarter, and you feel the urge. No, not the...
Pretty Women
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I originally wasn’t supposed to get a makeover at all. I was invited along by our Managing Editor, Laura, and decided to go and see if I could get in on the offer too....
