Arts & Culture
Patrick Watson – ‘Wave,’ 3.5/5
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As the musical monoculture continues to swallow every genre and subculture in its maw, it can feel exhausting — and increasingly pointless — to try and trace an artist’s precise influences.
However, every now and...
Micah Erenberg – ‘Love Is Gonna Find You,’ 3.5/5
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Besides heartache and whiskey, one of the tent poles of classic country and folk music is a sense of humour.
There’s often a playfulness to these stories of lost love and lonely travels, a winking...
‘The Third Colour’ wraps up first run at Prairie Theatre Exchange
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The Third Colour from Manitoban playwright Ian Ross just finished its first run at the Prairie Theatre Exchange (PTE).
In an “absurdist dramedy” using clown-style comedy to discuss heavier topics of colonialism, trauma and reconciliation,...
Jenny Heijun Wills relaunches her memoir ‘Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.’
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Winnipeg based author and University of Winnipeg professor Jenny Heijun Wills relaunched her first memoir to a packed McNally Robinson atrium on Oct. 8.
First released in mid-September, Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir...
Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour was life-changing
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Sir Elton John rode into Winnipeg on a stormy fall day and let the sun go down on a full house at Bell MTS Place.
His final world tour, justly dubbed the Farewell Yellow Brick...
Margaret Atwood wraps up Winnipeg’s 2019 Thin Air festival
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Canadian literary legend Margaret Atwood brought weighty topics with wit to the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Sept. 30.
An Evening with Margaret Atwood wrapped up the Winnipeg International Writers Festival’s Thin Air 2019 event.
Atwood is...
Winnipegger Katrina Rosen gives frank look at marital struggles and cross-continental...
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"Mike, do you want to bike around the world?”
That is one of the first lines in Winnipeg-born author Katrina Rosen’s new book, and was the catalyst for the adventure it was based upon.
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