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’Toban Listens: The Magnus Archives

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Jacob Davis
“Statement begins.” Those two words are familiar to anyone who has tuned into Rusty Quill’s horror fiction podcast, The Magnus Archives (MAG). The weekly anthology series is produced by Rusty Quill, directed by founder and...
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’Toban Listens: Lore

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Jacob Davis
What was the first urban legend you ever heard?  For me it was “The Licked Hand,” a tale about a girl at home alone with her dog that ends with animal death and the phrase...
Teegan Gillich
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Punk’s not dead: It’s back and shopping local

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Jacob Davis
With its foundation built on the love for Winnipeg’s long-standing music scene and DIY subculture, the Winnipeg Punk Rock Flea Market (WPRFM) is a DIY craft fair where the weird, the alternative or the...
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Mitski, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We

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Jacob Davis
4.5/5 Stars The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We portrays love, loneliness and self-care in a musical language that acknowledges and feels resigned to its fate. Whereas previous albums by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Mitski have...
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Mailiw: Conversations of home at the dinner table

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Jacob Davis
Local artists and their works filled Winnipeg’s Exchange District and downtown area on the evening of Sept. 23 for Nuit Blanche Winnipeg, an annual nighttime event that celebrates and explores contemporary art. Among the...
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Transphobia is being allowed to thrive in the Prairies

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Jacob Davis
Days after the 1 Million March 4 Children (1MM4C), I started seeing online articles that celebrated counter-protesters outnumbering the fringe, cross-country anti-trans protest. While there were several provinces in Canada that did have such instances,...
Teegan Gillich
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Twilight is camp and I was wrong to be a hater

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Jacob Davis
Unlike most 13-year-olds of my generation, I did not have a strange parasocial connection and love for Twilight (2008).  My vampiric interests were solely based on Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) and...
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