Arts & Culture
Platform presents reclaimed history in new video exhibit
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Suspicious Futures: Select Video Work, by Susan Britton, is a collection of videos that, to date, have been out of the public eye for more than 15 years. Britton’s work, to be shown at...
Ask Kara
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Dear Kara,
I'm a student at the U of W and I've never been on a date or kissed a girl before. I am very quiet, a bit anxious and avoidant in general, and I...
40 years strong for Plug In
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Imagine for a minute that you are an artist. You’re local, from Manitoba and eager to showcase your contemporary work in the belief that it will stretch boundaries, shatter expectations and change the landscape...
Essentially A Playlist: Soundtrack edition (part one)
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I didn’t even bother watching the Oscars this year because the only film in the running that I’d seen was Moneyball, so I was spared Billy Crystal’s blackface routine — which apparently wasn’t even...
CD Review: Islands, A Sleep & A Forgetting
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Islands has always been a band on the periphery of my musical interests. I gave earlier albums Arms Way and Vapours a listen, but was unable to connect. The music was sporadic, unexpectedly beautiful,...
Life After Pokémon
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Ash Ketchum was the undisputed hero of my childhood. He had that red Pokéball hat that he would turn backwards every time he prepared to battle. God, he was badass. But he was clumsy...
Jinchalo: A visual journey
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Jinchalo, title of Matthew Forsythe’s newest graphic novel, is a Korean expression, meaning “really?” A question of reality: what and where is the line between what is real and what is imagined?
A companion piece...







