CD Review : The Famines “Free Love is a Sales Technique”
Is there a crueler bait-and-switch than “reality”? All it does is savage the hopes and reveries we lay so desperately at its false altar. Indeed,…
Is there a crueler bait-and-switch than “reality”? All it does is savage the hopes and reveries we lay so desperately at its false altar. Indeed,…
Balanced has grown from a small Canadian prairie imprint to a sizable enterprise boasting alternative sounds including broken beat, down tempo, hip hop excursions and,…
Twenty years after Roger & Me, Capitalism: A Love Story is Michael Moore’s latest attack on American greed. Beginning with a comparison of modern America…
Amongst the clutter of the forty paintings that compromise Milos Milidrag’s A Global Inuit (Sex, Jokes and Polar Bears), I was immediately drawn to a…
There’s something quiet about spaghetti westerns. The storylines are basic enough: enigmatic cowboy hero draws-and-fires his way to the bottom of the human condition. But…
In the past few years, a coterie of musicians, many, if not all, graduates of the University of Manitoba’s School of Music’s Jazz Studies program,…
Dan Fante’s new novel, 86’d, is a rip-roaring novel about a forty-two year old alcoholic, pill-popping loser at life on his last legs. The story…
If it had ended after the first piece, it would have been spectacular. Unfortunately, it went on. On Wednesday, Sept. 9, approximately 700 people attended…
Artist: Iggy Pop Album: Preliminaries Year : 2009 Label: Astralwerks .5 out of ** The latest from the punk rock God (or Dog, Iggy Pop’s…
Artist: The Wind Whistles Album: Animals Are People, Too Year : 2009 Label: Independent * out of * The graphic on the Wind Whistles Myspace.com…