Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

Sophistication according to George Roy

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George Roy
Animal House, Old School and other college movies portray university life as a laidback, drunken experience. This is not true. Obviously there are opportunities to relax and have fun, but university life is much...
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Adventures in close-to-campus wining and dining

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Sarah Petz
Although I now share a cozy apartment just off Corydon with two roommates, I have spent the majority of my three years in Winnipeg living in Fort Richmond. Conveniently close to the university —...
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The highs and lows of Winnipeg Folk Festival

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Noreen Mae Ritsema
Getting more elaborate and more innovative each year, for many people the Winnipeg Folk Festival is an annual ritual that is not to be missed. I have affectionately compiled a list of highlights and...
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From a distance

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Daniela Smith-Fernández
The short stories in Michelle Berry’s collection, I Still Don’t Even Know You, present the same kind of perspective on people that you get by watching them at night under the glare of a...
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Essentially a playlist

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Michael Elves
Man oh man, you gotta feel sorry for Dan oh Dan. Gilbert that is. It’s not enough that his marquee player left him on live TV, but then he got slapped by the commish...
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Into the wilderness

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Maria Bowler
The critical feedback for The Wilderness of Manitoba’s latest album When You Left the Fire has been nothing if not consistent. The same descriptors reappear: a lush, folk album with 1960s influences and rife...
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After Abba

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Ben Miller
From June 3-19, Stockholm Sweden celebrated Crown Princess Victoria’s marriage to her personal trainer Daniel Westling, with a festival of the arts called “LOVE Stockholm 2010.” If financial circumstances, scheduling or a no-fly...

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