Arts & Culture

Five questions

By
Maria Bowler
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 do you find produces creativity? Matt Peters: I find going...
Arts & Culture

My weekend with ghosts

By
Maria Bowler
According to Winnipeg legend, the Fort Garry Hotel is haunted. I'm there to attend the 2010 Spirit Seekers conference, dedicated to “paranormal research, spirit communication and intuitive development.” My experience in that arena is...
Arts & Culture

Lipstick Traces

By
Maria Bowler
Which Spice Girl were you? If you were a female aged seven to 14 in 1996 you probably at least considered it. The Spice Girls were essentially a ‘60s girl group reincarnated for the...
Arts & Culture

World War 1.5

By
Maria Bowler
To make art is at once challenging and satisfying, like completing a puzzle. One of life's great pleasures is to stand back and look at something that you have made, something that was not...
Arts & Culture

Graduate! It’s like, whatever.

By
Maria Bowler
So you're graduating soon! Going out into the “real world” to be an “adult,” without the downy cushion of studenthood beneath your head. Good luck with that, I'm sure it will work out for...
Arts & Culture

R.I.P-HOP?

By
Maria Bowler
If hip hop's not dead then, according to Timbaland, it is at least seriously ill. The producer recently said publicly that rap's just not the same, and while there are some acts he deems...
Features

Winter Comfort’s Discomforted

By
Maria Bowler
Well, I suppose it's official now. We're deep in the throes of winter. The time of year when many of us head indoors, pull on one of our several Snuggies and enjoy the comforts...
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