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Uncovering the secret lives of medieval concubines

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Boris Tsun Hang Leung
Around 600 years ago in Ferrara, Italy, an Inquisitor interrogated dozens of women cohabiting with supposedly celibate clergymen, leaving behind a register that detailed the investigation and its suspects. Centuries later, this court record...
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Sofar Sounds relaunches in Winnipeg

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Boris Tsun Hang Leung
Dan Kennedy, a local music producer, is relaunching Sofar Sounds’s Winnipeg branch after a hiatus. Sofar Sounds started in London, England in 2009 as a concert network that specializes in low-key and intimate gigs in...
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Freeze Frame film festival highlights youth cinema

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Boris Tsun Hang Leung
Freeze Frame International Film Festival for Kids of All Ages, an annual festival in Winnipeg, is about to mark its 30th anniversary. Taking place at the Centre culturel franco-manitobain from March 8 to 14,...
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Local play Emergency Ops is a trainwreck, literally

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Boris Tsun Hang Leung
Local artist Hayden Maines recently performed Emergency Ops, a solo comedy about a group of civil servants managing a disaster in a small town. Taking place last weekend at the Irish Association of Manitoba,...
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Wilding out with The Weekly Y-lers

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Boris Tsun Hang Leung
Kyler Zaenali and Tyler Ward are the two U of M students behind The Weekly Y-lers, a UMFM radio show that explores different musical themes and the history of musical genres.  It all began when...
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A coming-of-age story, but about a mother

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Boris Tsun Hang Leung
Parents always want the best for their children, but they may not always know what their children need — this is the lesson of The Mother and the Bear. Filmed in Winnipeg and released...
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Bluebloods releases debut LP Discount Everything

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Boris Tsun Hang Leung
Winnipeg band Bluebloods released their self-produced debut LP, Discount Everything, last month. It features 11 tracks that celebrate the Canadian prairies and American Midwest, Mennonite socials and all. The band is comprised of Conrad Sweatman...
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