Arts & Culture

This October saw the Toronto-based band the Darcys deliver their first offering on the Arts & Crafts label. Produced by Murray Lightburn of the Dears, this self-titled album is filled with moody and textured...

Ingredients: 1 full, chopped banana 5-6 ice cubes 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 tablespoon sugar 1-2 tablespoons cinnamon 3/4 cup milk Directions: This recipe makes 2-3 glasses of banana shake. Take one banana and chop into four or five separate...

Sound Off is a continuing column in which we pose different artists the same series of crucial questions. Maya Postepski makes up one third of the Toronto-based New Wave trio Austra. Having recently been named...

I remember pulling Eragon off of the shelf eight years ago. I remember asking the man at the counter if the book was really worth my while (I was such a hopeless geek, even...

Recently, the Manitoban was able to sit down and talk vinyl with one of the all-time Winnipeg record gurus, Greg Tonn, founder of the widely respected city institution Into the Music. Manitoban: For...

For some it may be hard to imagine Marketa Irglova without her long-time collaborator, Glen Hansard, as one half of the Swell Season . The 23-year-old jumped into the spotlight alongside Hansard in 2008...

The birth of reggae, the rise of a young Bob Marley, Jamaican civil unrest, police extortion, the birth of dub, the English punk scene of the late ’70s, the solo career of Paul McCartney...