Released just before Christmas, William Prince’s Earthly Days is already drawing deserved acclaim. The Winnipeg singer-songwriter – by way of Peguis First Nation – had previously earned accolades slinging his tunes live at several joints around...

In celebration of the third annual drive to raise funds for UMFM during Pledge-O-Rama, host Michael Elves provides insight on the origins and insides of his many shows aired on the station: Technically, I “host”...

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Boney M. returns for Christmas Take a quick moment to look at the last name in the byline. Now, when I tell you that I have a complicated...

I didn’t even bother watching the Oscars this year because the only film in the running that I’d seen was Moneyball, so I was spared Billy Crystal’s blackface routine — which apparently wasn’t even...

I sat on this idea for a few weeks because I felt it would maybe be in poor taste to run with it while people were still expelling fluids from orifices, but now that...

This is the last Essentially A Playlist of 2011, and as we head into the winter publishing break at the Manitoban, I considered doing a “best of” list like everyone and their dog (now...

In the last Essentially A Playlist, we took a trip to the moon courtesy of Pink Floyd and the deluxe remastered editions of their complete catalog, recently released by EMI. As we concluded that...