They started making panda porn to show male pandas,” explains Chris Connelly of Edmonton’s Hot Panda, “because they find that in captivity they can’t get them to mate.” Damn. If adorable pandas can’t get it...

Middle-class suburbia is not the stuff of legend. As far as its depiction in art is concerned, it is stucco sprawl, vapid and neatly fenced, recorded with a grimace by its escapees. Often for...

A writer and storyteller from Zimbabwe, Ignatius Mabasa has just arrived to the U of M’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture (CCWOC) as its writer/storyteller-in-residence for fall 2010. He graciously agreed to...

In 480 BC, as the Persians approached the Greek ships at the Battle of Salamis, they heard singing. According to Greek poet Aeschylus, “All the barbarians felt fear because they had been deprived of...

T he headlights caught the moose around midnight, just as we sped around a turn on the highway. All we saw were massive, yawning antlers and its shining hide before it strolled casually...

The critical feedback for The Wilderness of Manitoba’s latest album When You Left the Fire has been nothing if not consistent. The same descriptors reappear: a lush, folk album with 1960s influences and rife...

It begins to rain the moment I walk through the gates of my first Folk Festival, which could be taken as a bad omen except for everyone around me seems so relaxed. People of...