Maria Bowler

Five Questions

Five Questions is a continuing column in which we pose a different artist the same five crucial questions. One: The Manitoban: What substance or activity…


Five Questions

Five Questions is a continuing column in which we pose a different artist the same five crucial questions. One: The Manitoban: What substance or activity…


Five Questions

Five Questions is a continuing column in which we pose a different artist the same five crucial questions. One: The Manitoban: What substance or activity…


Looking inside the anxious mind

“You know you’re being irrational, but you can’t stop your heart from racing,” says Lindsay*, a U of M student diagnosed with anxiety. “And if…


Creating little worlds

Lake Superior State University — longstanding arbiter of taste and go-to state university for word-banishing — declared the word “epic” banned for 2011. Along with…


Five Questions

Five Questions is a continuing column in which we pose a different artist the same five crucial questions. One: The Manitoban: What substance or activity…


To whom can a girl turn

Like every young, super-fabulous lady in our city, I like certain things: shopping ‘til I drop, celebs, Apple-berry-tinis™, and the glossy women’s magazines they sell…


I just had such a good idea

Attention everyone! You guys! I have the best idea. Oh, that? That is a half-empty bottle of Crème de Menthe. Or half-full, am I right?…


H.I.T.S parade

It is Tuesday evening at the Toad in the Hole on Osborne and everything is as it should be — that is, nothing is out…


Ewww tattoo

Oh geez, this is embarrassing. I’m not entirely sure how to even talk about this. It’s not what you’d call “a fun topic,” but alright,…