Things Withered
We know Winnipeg-born Susie Moloney from her novels A Dry Spell, The Dwelling, and The Thirteen. Moloney, who currently spends time in New York, tends…
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Big Fun in review
As one night of the event Big Fun, itself paired with the New Music Festival, Jan. 24 at the barely ventilated Windsor Hotel was a…
‘I am B.A. Johnston, and I’m sorry’
A B.A. Johnston performance has very little to do with music; it’s a booze-soaked whirlwind of sad-sack ditties interrupted by moderate acts of destruction. The songs…
The Good, The Bad, and the Critic
F.W. Murnau’s 1922 classic Nosferatu–starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok—portrays a merciless vampire interested in a new castle to lure his victims to and, more…
A prophecy of decay
Ontarian-turned-Manitoban Lauren Carter has written for literary journals and newspapers such as Prairie Fire and the Globe and Mail, and released her poetry collection, Lichen…
Feminism is still relevant
The opening scene of Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada interchanges and overlaps footage from the first Royal Commission on the Status…
Lacking Flavour
To say that I love Mexican food would be an understatement. I will pretty much eat Mexican food at any given time on any given…
A big, steaming pile of garbage
When it was announced that No Doubt would regroup to release a new full-length album, a feeling of hope and excitement fell over the world….
Heartbreak and pick-me-ups
JP Hoe is one Winnipeg musician that has been steadily growing in popularity over the past six or seven years and his new album Mannequin…
The Heist
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis deliver the goods with their first independent full album release, The Heist. A project three years in the making, the entire…