TV in the cinema
TV is often hailed as the greatest mass communications advance of the 20th-century, but viewers worldwide are being challenged to do away with it this…
Winnipeg
UMFM Show Spotlight : The Scene
The UMFM Show Spotlight is monthly column showcasing various programming on the University of Manitoba’s campus and community radio station. To recommend a show for…
Ahh, all the lovely flowers…
For the majority of the fall and winter sessions at the University of Manitoba, the scenery outdoors is somber and depressing. In only a month…
Ciclovia takes Winnipeg
People pedaled and strolled and hula-hooped their way down Broadway Avenue, basking in the warmth of a late summer Sunday. On September 13, the thoroughfare’s…
The light of the world
When various medieval mountebanks and oddballs assembled “Cabinets of curiosities,” wooden boxes of things like mummy body parts, paintings of people with deformities, and narwhal…
Hate cyclists?
It was a new dawn and I was off to the pet store, walking and smiling, a hop in my step and a bunny under…
Book Review : Stripmalling Appalling
If there were ever a book that failed to deliver on the high praises of the back cover, Winnipeg expat Jon Paul Fiorentino’s Stripmalling is…