Music, politics and morals
Last month Canadian music legend and children’s entertainer Fred Penner stopped by the UMFM studios to help promote his upcoming December shows in Winnipeg. Penner…
Leif Larsen
Movember, A Mo-emoir.
Haven’t been without a beard in more than a decade. My face is furious for thrusting it into this cold bright world unprepared.The wife has…
Things I’ve loved
Things I’ve Loved is a celebration of things from the near or distant past, either overlooked or forgotten by the unforgiving eye of popular culture….
Amundsen’s Cold Recall
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becoming the first person to reach the South Pole, the Royal Norwegian embassy in…
Mission abandoned
On Oct. 21, 2011, almost every news channel I turned to was covering two things: the announcement that former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi had been…
The price of openness
Unlike mainstream media, the Manitoban does not endorse political candidates, parties or movements. We are a free and open medium for the expression of any…
Rapid transit to ‘nowhere’
Winnipeg Transit is not terrible. There, I said it. The buses are clean, the operators generally friendly and the service is pretty decent if you…
Playing with each other
Let’s face it; two human bodies can only come together in so many ways. Once you’ve tried them on top, you on top and behind,…
iPhone 4S
On Oct. 4 Apple’s new CEO, Tim Cook, announced the iPhone 4S — successor to the iPhone 4 — at a media event at Apple…
Centre vs. Centre
Several times during the most recent provincial election campaign I said if you were to take away all of the colours, politicians and TV commercials,…