Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Ben Caplan and the Casual Smokers – “Birds with Broken Wings”,...

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Olivia Michalczuk
With absolutely no surprise, Ben Caplan and the Casual Smokers’ sophomore album perches atop Canadian community and campus radio magazine !earshot’s national folk/roots/blues chart. The album opens with a beautifully twisted and villainous song called...
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Why tapes are great

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Olivia Michalczuk
Millennials quiver with excitement at the sight of anything tacky, nostalgic or vintage. It became not a question of if, but when a genius and soon-to-be billionaire would begin the audio cassette revival when...
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Why tapes aren’t that great

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Seamus Hamilton-Pattison
Nostalgia can be an extremely powerful motivator. If a significant object of one’s past is no longer widely available or relevant, then a sense of nostalgia will often amplify and create a great demand...
Arts & Culture

Ready, set, art

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Olivia Michalczuk
As artists, friends, family, and curious spectators arrived at the lobby of the Centennial Concert Hall on Oct. 9, six easels patiently awaited 20-minute masterpieces constructed by the paintbrushes of 12 talented locals for...
Arts & Culture

Of basements and barrooms

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Emelia Fournier
The 90s birthed many of the University of Manitoba’s current students as well as huge noise and punk rock bands like Nirvana, Hole, Propagandhi, and Kittens. The latter two emerged from little isolated Winnipeg. Despite producing...
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Dance on over to UMSwing

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Raylene Paci
Ballet. Jazz. Tap. These are just a few dance classes you might have taken as a child at the urging of your mother. You might have been horrible or you might have even continued...
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Pages by and for the people

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Ryan Capar
On Oct. 24, Toronto-based Broken Pencil Magazine, a publication dedicated to “zine culture and the independent arts” will present Canadian zine event Canzine 2015 in Winnipeg. Broken Pencil Magazine will once again join forces...

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