Arts & Culture
Just the fax
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We are constantly reminded how technology is rapidly developing and changing our world. Apple just announced its new product — the iPad — a handy device that stores books, music, videos and will even...
New music, Ho!
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The 2010 Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival is set to kick off this Saturday. In anticipation, the Manitoban's John Herbert Cunningham spoke with WSO composer-in-residence, Vincent Ho, about his impact on the NMF...
R.I.P-HOP?
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If hip hop's not dead then, according to Timbaland, it is at least seriously ill. The producer recently said publicly that rap's just not the same, and while there are some acts he deems...
Yes? Yes — Yes. Yes . . . Yes!
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If you know anything about theatre, you know of Harold Pinter. And if you’ve heard of Harold Pinter, you know that he loves his pauses. He loves to nest in them, tempt women to...
Essentially a Playlist : ‘Dad’ doesn’t equal ‘bad’
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Last year in these very pages, The Deep Dark Woods' Winter Hours was panned — much to my chagrin. And while records get negative reviews all the time, what gave me pause was that,...
CD review – Neon Indian “Psychic Chasms”
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Alan Palomo isn’t just another electronic musician reveling in the by-gone sounds and (excessive) glam of the 1980s. In fact, the founder of the Austin, TX-based electropop outfit Neon Indian is anything but. Enigmatically...
CD review – Will Bonness “Subtle Fire”
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Jazz pianist Will Bonness is one of the young lions of the up-and-coming Winnipeg musicians that have arrived as a result of the U of M school of music’s jazz studies program.
It is...
