Frighteningly funny
This Halloween the musical improv comedy group Outside Joke is teaming up with the Dungeons and Dragons Improv Show to kick off their fourth season…
Arts & Culture
The Sumner Brothers – “The Hell in Your Mind”, 4/5
Picture a wave undulating in a heavy storm on a nippy and overcast day. It is a dark and dangerous sight, but it calms you…
Ben Caplan and the Casual Smokers – “Birds with Broken Wings”, 5/5
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…
Why tapes are great
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…
Why tapes aren’t that great
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…
Ready, set, art
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…
Of basements and barrooms
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…
Dance on over to UMSwing
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…
Pages by and for the people
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…
Delhi 2 Dublin – “We’re All Desi”, 5/5
This album is loud as hell and all the better because of it. To introduce world music collective Delhi 2 Dublin’s latest album We’re All…