Queer all-female band Strange Breed tours new album, Permanence
Rock ’n’ roll never died — it only transformed and carried on. Strange Breed, an all-queer, all-female garage-rock group from Vancouver, is touring across Canada…
Arts & Culture
Kent Monkman’s latest exhibit opens at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Canadian history is being retold in Kent Monkman’s latest solo exhibit at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Canadian Cree artist Kent Monkman’s Shame and Prejudice: A…
The Bros. Landreth ⎯ ‘’87,’ 4/5
The Bros. Landreth are back with their highly anticipated sophomore album, ’87.
Ally Gonzalo captures Winnipeg’s Filipino queer community in latest portrait series
Ally Gonzalo brings boldness and beauty in Bakla!, his latest portrait series. Gonzalo is now a Winnipeg-based professional photographer, but he got his start back…
Local YA fantasy author S. M. Beiko launches ‘The Brilliant Dark’ at McNally Robinson
A locally-made epic trilogy will come to an end this month. The Brilliant Dark, S. M. Beiko’s final instalment of The Realms of Ancient trilogy,…
U of M’s 4-H club promotes leadership
Farm kids are not the only ones going to 4-H clubs anymore. The U of M Future Leaders 4-H Club is a group where students…
U of M’s school of art showcases Indigenous South African pottery and alumna PJ Anderson’s work
The latest exhibit at the U of M’s School of Art Gallery’s collections gallery is hundreds of years in the making. Contemporary Traditions and Allusions:…
Begonia’s in bloom
Local music icon Alexa Dirks, known onstage as Begonia, is between filming music videos and a busy tour schedule. She is also releasing her first full-length album, Fear, Sept. 13.
Begonia — Fear, 4.5/5
Alexa Dirks, who performs under the name Begonia, unsurprisingly delivers stellar vocals and raw lyrics on her highly anticipated debut full-length album, Fear.
Festival blankets the city with creativity
Winnipeg’s sixth annual Wall-to-Wall Mural & Culture Festival — run by Synonym Art Consultation in collaboration with Graffiti Art Programming Inc. — runs throughout September.