arts




Fringe reviews

The Winnipeg Fringe Festival was bigger than ever this year with 108,721 indoor attendees and an estimated 80,000 people visiting Old Market Square for live…


Science briefs

A white-nosed problem Results of recent laboratory and field work show that a soil bacterium can inhibit the growth of a fungus which causes a…


Tripped out travel feature

This is an introduction to the Manitoban‘s tripped out feature edition, covering a range of travel stories submitted by some of our readers and editors,…


Lost Luggage

My decision to organize “Lost Luggage,” a travel writing contest between students at the University of Manitoba and City University of Hong Kong, came out…


The smog

“What do you want?” Ian looked at me, as direct as his question. I didn’t know him at all. I came with Justus, whom I…


Business as usual

Everything loses beauty with overexposure. Even the sunrise becomes devalued when one sees it constantly with tired eyes from the seat of a 747. Cycles…


Cover to cover with Carlyn

Acclaimed Winnipeg writer Brenda Hasiuk used her hometown as a setting in last year’s Your Constant Star, which follows three Winnipeg teens as they enter adulthood….