Midnight
2.75/5 stars Meraki Theatre Productions’ Midnight combines the classic fairy-tale formula with the tunes of Taylor Swift. Featuring a twist ending and a lively cast…
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Why Not Murder Mother
3.5/5 stars Why Not Murder Mother begins the moment the theatre doors open, with a character lying comatose on a bed flanked by her oddly…
The Ultimate Actor’s Nightmare
4.5/5 stars Club Soda Improv returns to Fringe Fest with its resoundingly successful formula. Because the show is improvised and is therefore different every day,…
Something wicked this way comes
Where do witches, the magically inclined and self-declared weirdos go to sell their goods? As of June 24, the answer is the Wicked Bazaar. Founder…
Explosive chemical found in Parker building
A “potentially unstable” chemical found in a storage closet of the Parker building sent Winnipeg Emergency Services to the University of Manitoba on Friday, June…
’Toban about town — Aburi Sushi
The philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote in celebration of the flâneur, the wandering person of leisure in urban spaces. Flâneurs soak their cities in, stroll around,…
Look past suburbia and experience Winnipeg
Throughout my life, I haven’t heard a lot of people rave about Winnipeg. Recently, I drove around Winnipeg taking pictures of places that I consider…
The lacklustre aftermath of BLM protests
George Floyd’s death in May 2020 sparked countless Black Lives Matter protests and rallies around the world, including here in Winnipeg, and there was no…
The unjust society
The very fact that there are homeless citizens in our city is a glaring problem. My issue is that there are people suffering on the…
My experience being trans, queer, brown
People pass away with their stories, or they are written out of them. On Aug. 2, 1987, Winnipeg held its first Pride march. A fact…