Arts & Culture
CD Review : Todd Snider “The Excitement Plan”
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Todd Snider delivers another dish of country fried good times on his eighth full-length studio album, The Excitement Plan. Fans of Snider’s will find the “barefoot troubadour” in fine form, producing 12 top-notch tunes...
Breau-mance
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5 O’clock Bells
Directed by Brian Quirt
Starring Pierre Brault
* out of **
The 2009-10 season opened Oct. 8 with 5 O’clock Bells, a play about the person who made the Guess Who possible.
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Essentially a Playlist
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Despite the ever-present threat of terrible weather, I firmly believe October is one of the best months of the year. The hubbub of back-to-school insanity has died down and people have settled into a...
All the city’s a stage
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At first glance, theatre is an archaic art form, utterly outdone by its more glamorous and accessible counterpart, film. Why, then, is it important that theatre persevere in this-fast paced culture fixated on consumption...
Hailing Hoffman
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Philip Hoffman, one of Canada’s most critically respected filmmakers, is coming to Winnipeg to attend a retrospective of his short works and a screening of his first feature. Known for his distinctly personal approach,...
‘Regarding heroes’ through a master’s lens
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His iconic portraits, full of emotion, thought and care, leave the viewer with no question of his status as a master of light and tone. His sitters include the most important figures of the...
WSO creates Romantic sonic boom
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On Friday, September 26, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and conductor Alexander Mickelthwate returned for a brand new season with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.
The evening started off in measured fashion with introductions...
