Uneasy Winnipeg
Have horror in mind? Here are some locally shot films and television shows, and novels by local authors to pick up in time for Halloween….
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Teeming with life, history
Just over the creek is where it all began roughly 135 years ago. Standing over a sea of some 11,000 chalky white clonal tombstones in…
Lit up
It may be impossible to positively establish a statistically significant link between drinking and producing great writing. However, a sizable enough sample of what many…
Spectacularly Sober
I’ll be 22 years old in November, and I don’t drink. No, I’m not allergic, religious, a recovering alcoholic, or traumatized by some event from…
Self-medication
Twenty per cent of Canadians experience mental illness during their lifetime, and 20 per cent of those Canadians will at one time or another develop…
Honing their draft
Even in the gift shop, adjacent to the room where the action actually goes down, Winnipeg’s Half Pints brewery has its own distinctive smell. It…
Alcohol and your body
Whether you enjoy a glass of wine with dinner, you’re a Friday night kegger fan, or you’re abstinent and happy, here’s the rundown on what…
Winnipeg brewing
My footsteps in the arena of local beer lore are child-sized compared to those of Bill Wright and Dave Craig. Their recent book 300 Years…
Our Flatlander’s favourites
Two Manitoban editors got a chance to check out the Flatlander’s Beer Festival. By no means beer experts, Fraser and Marc were given a simple…
Three reasons why we drink
Drinking is an age-old custom. Archaeologists have found evidence of fermented alcoholic beverages’ existence in China as early as 9,000 years ago. Intoxicating liquor runs…