Bloody Canadian writers
It was cold and pouring rain in St. John’s when I spoke to author Craig Francis Power from his home in Newfoundland. How appropriate, as…
Maria Bowler
Hot Panda action
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…
A record of how I felt then
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,…
Campus Spotlight: Ignatius Mabasa
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…
Jock jams
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…
Breaking Down the Road Trip Mix Tape
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…
Into the wilderness
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:…
Folk Festival blog entry 4: Saturday, July 10, 2010
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…
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…
My weekend with ghosts
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…