My love affair with Death Cab
Death Cab for Cutie, for those of you who don’t know, is a band founded by Ben Gibbard in the late nineties. They’ve released seven…
Amy Anne Smith
Movie Review: Wiebo’s War
Written and directed by David York, Wiebo’s War is documentary film detailing Wiebo Ludwig’s twenty-year struggle against the oil and gas industry in northern Alberta….
CD Review: Feist, Metals
I wish I could say that I have followed Leslie Feist’s career from the very beginning — because this would imply that I have impeccable…
McQueen hits GoSA
The Gallery of Student Art (GoSA) has a new exhibit opening this week. Wear is You: An exhibition homage to Alexander McQueen will be showing…
Speak for yourself
September of 2005, Neil Strauss’ The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick-up Artists becomes a New York Times best seller. The book follows Strauss’s…
Nuit Blanche stories
I have been to the Winnipeg Art Gallery only three times in my life before Saturday night. I can say with absolute confidence that Nuit…
Third-dimension harshing your movie buzz?
I love the cinema. The front doors sound like a space ship landing gear, and as I walk in from the cold, a fabulous excess…
Disappearing into Thin Air
It was late at night, around this time last year, downtown Winnipeg. Just past eight o’clock, I stepped off the 62 bus and out onto…
Maddin Haunts Winnipeg
After first debuting in Toronto, and travelling overseas for a stint in Paris, Guy Maddin’s Hauntings 1 multi-screen installation is coming home. As part of…
Spring kind of sucks
Can you feel it? The last week of weather in Manitoba has offered us a glimpse into what we are in for. The temperature on…