Arts & Culture

Think about your favourite contemporary artist. Do you have one? What do you like about their work? Now think about your favourite artist ever. Do you have one? What do you like about their...

Armin Wiebe says it was an anecdote about his grandparents that inspired his first play, The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz. The former University of Manitoba writer-in-residence says he recalled a story about his...

Yoga is everywhere these days. In Winnipeg, it feels like there is a new yoga studio popping up on every block of every trendy neighborhood. This is not a big city, so yoga’s growing...

Green hills, seaside towns and lovely castles tarnished a mossy green from age. This is Wales. North Wales, that is. It may be just as full of English as England is, but it’s still...

When it comes to the talk radio, some people feel that it’s a genre that has gone the way of the compact disc, one that’s listened to only while driving long distances in the...

So here we are. Within the next few days the Winter 2011 term will be officially behind us. We will head off to exams and then into our four-month summer. As this was my...

Well this is it folks — it’s the end of another publishing year at the Toban and quite possibly the end of “Essentially A Playlist.” I don’t know who the Arts Editor will be...