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Arts & Culture

Static prevails

By
Damian Purdy
Send and Receive, Winnipeg's annual festival of sound, is on again this week and there's nary a hook, harmony or hand-clap to be heard. Instead, over a dozen of the world's foremost sound artists...
Arts & Culture

An infected trio of swine and the huge, horrifying canine

By
James NcCorchuk
Another major flu epidemic may well be underway. We all remember the disaster of SARS a few years ago, West-Nile virus has made many headlines in recent years and recently there was worry over...
Arts & Culture

Hurl from a top window

By
Kevin Doole
In his first work of creative non-fiction, the 13-year old Eric Valdemar wrote about war and childhood. Inspired by his hometown of Rostock in northern Germany, the site of numerous pioneering aeroplane-manufacturing facilities, and...
Editorial

The Ultimate Downer

By
Damian Purdy
On the morning of April 5, 1994, Jarrod woke up wide-eyed. Believing that he could fly, the teenager convinced his father to drive him and a hang glider to a barren country road. There,...
Arts & Culture

CD Review : Corb Lund “Losin Lately Gambler”

By
Leif Larsen
The first song I heard on Corb Lund’s new album, Losin’ Lately Gambler was “A Game in Town Like This,” and, frankly, it filled me with a sense of dread. The song wasn’t bad;...
Arts & Culture

CD Review : NDU “The Rebel Zone”

By
William O'Donnell
Hip-Hop is a genre of music but it is more often than not called “rap,” which is technically the vocal style. In many ways, people are right to use that term because this music...
Arts & Culture

CD Review : Todd Snider “The Excitement Plan”

By
Sheldon Birnie
Todd Snider delivers another dish of country fried good times on his eighth full-length studio album, The Excitement Plan. Fans of Snider’s will find the “barefoot troubadour” in fine form, producing 12 top-notch tunes...