Get your Yukon
Yukon Blonde, Kelowna-born Vancouver indie rockers, will begin their latest tour at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on Feb. 18 — one year since the…
Benjamin Miller
Interrupting animals
At the end of Federico Fellini’s Amarcord (1973), a peacock belonging to a local aristocrat escapes from his master’s house and lands in the town…
Winnipeg in writing
Sometimes it takes a fresh set of eyes to see something for what it is, and this is especially true of Manitoba. Manitoba is at…
The Sadies get hereditary
We, as a society, do not always take well to the idea of inherited privilege. Perhaps we think it’s undemocratic; it conjures up some collective…
Warhol to Wedman
Artist Neil Wedman is bringing his work to the University of Manitoba’s Gallery One One One. Wedman, a native Vancouverite, is well known for his…
Cabane fever
Canadian choreographer and dancer Paul-André Fortier’s latest work steps outside the boundaries of dance. Cabane, the latest work by one of Quebec’s best-known dancers, incorporates…
More guns, less whimsy
The Green Hornet has suffered from the expectations it created. While the film is — as I write this — the highest grossing currently in…
Recital probe
Classical musicians from the University of Manitoba’s faculty of music are trying to change the way we consume music by performing outside of organized orchestral…
Genre-hopping
One of the defining aspects of today’s popular culture is its fragmentation. Popular music is divided into such infinitesimally small sub-genres that some bands move…
The noughties in Asian cinema
For the past month, arts and culture sections in newspapers and magazines have been filled with top 10s, fives and perhaps a few top 14s,…