Arts & Culture
This land is FOODLAND
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Winnipegger Adam Smoluk’s second feature FOODLAND opens tomorrow at Winnipeg Cinematheque. The film, written and directed by Smoluk and produced by Juliette Hagopian, takes place in South Winnipeg and was produced through the National...
Chaplin’s Circus comes to town
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Charlie Chaplin was notoriously reluctant to reveal his filmmaking techniques, but this much is known: he started each production with an idea and little else. Usually it was a premise, a character and a...
Music and you
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How do you get your music? Well, there are really only two ways you can answer this question. Option A: You buy your music. Whether you head off to HMV or on iTunes, you...
Laptops in examinations? Say What?
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It has happened twice. Twice in the last week! As examinations too-quickly approach, I have had two classes where an individual has asked if they could write their exam on a computer. I am...
The rare breed of winter cyclist
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About a month ago I wrote an article in the Manitoban regarding the top trends of fall 2010. Sitting in the number 12 spot on that list was the oh-so-trendy bicycle. It seems that...
Texting continues to be all the rage and I will never...
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There have been countless times where I couldn’t go a whole outing without feeling ignored by a friend whose nose was buried in their T9 world. It’s like when someone says it rude for...
Living in GOSA’s glass bubble
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From the week of Nov. 15-19, 2010, I lived in a tent in the Gallery of Student Art on campus at the University of Manitoba, in an exhibition called Secondhand Tables and Chairs. The...
