Arts & Culture
The best Canadian albums of 2022
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Alvvays — Blue Rev
https://youtu.be/YVJ0ZKYu-GI
Alvvays has reclaimed its rightful spot as indie-pop royalty. Since its first record in 2014, the band has pumped out perfect pop gems at a frustratingly slow pace. Blue Rev comes...
The ’Toban staff’s holiday favourites
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
https://youtu.be/xgVo96JaqeM
Yes, Stanley Kubrick’s uncanny, erotic psychodrama Eyes Wide Shut is indeed a Christmas movie. The obviously fake New York City streets are lined with fairy lights, and the film ends with...
’Toban tracks — a holiday miracle
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Holiday music — the trash they pump through mall speakers from October through December as they try to hype up shoppers and passersby to buy as much garbage as they can afford.
It is easy...
’Toban about town — Double D’s Cheesecake & Coffee House
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I like to tell myself I am too metropolitan in spirit to enjoy frequenting the same places and meeting the same familiar faces. But part of the appeal of living in Winnipeg is that...
Gimme Some Truth documentary festival returns
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Returning for its 13th run, the Dave Barber Cinematheque plays host to the 2022 Gimme Some Truth documentary film festival held from Dec. 7 to 11.
Opening night will feature the newly annual documentary challenge...
Four books for thinking critically about love
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Cuffing season is upon us, that time from late fall to early spring when couples seemingly pop out of the ground. At times like these, and with my eye on the socially exhausting holiday...
Dangler, ‘Sunny Day Lake Music’ — 4.5/5 Stars
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Sunny Day Lake Music is both a completely apt and ironic way to name the debut compilation EP from Dangler. There is a sort of musical breeziness to some of the tunes and arrangements,...







