Legends of the Periphery: Polo Star, Sue Sally Hale
From time to time, even some of the greatest and most prolific heroes in all of sports fall through the cracks of obscurity and are…
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Broken roads to open hearts
Backpacking across Europe is perhaps a right of passage. Maybe I’m a bit behind the times? Australia is the new Europe when it comes to…
When writing fades to black
Writing haunts me like a bad-burrito-and-beer night; it stings my gut, a constant reminder of the denial that I have consumed for well over a…
Dog walking with Pamela Anderson
Kristin Nelson has a popular name. She shares it with an American primitive painter and an actress famous for her work on the TV series…
Warhol to Wedman
Artist Neil Wedman is bringing his work to the University of Manitoba’s Gallery One One One. Wedman, a native Vancouverite, is well known for his…
Wellek, Felix and the sacred orders
Fairbanks Community Centre. There were eleven of them. Slouching, wretched failures, waiting, just as he ordered, warming up the eight lonely rows of rusted steel…
Do futuristic games have 8-bit beat?
I lay there bleeding from the sizeable hole on my chest, just before my left shoulder. I knew that the end would come soon. A…
Thinking big about the boreal
Most Manitobans have been to the boreal, but many are unaware that it’s called that. It’s the place with the pines, spruce and birch trees,…
Unnecessary Review
Holy shit you guys, I have something pretty special to talk about. In recent years popular media has evolved from standard-def to hi-def, then hi-def…
Theo speaks
Normally, when someone experiences the type of trauma that has come to punctuate the career of Theoren Fleury, it is not typical that they go…