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CD Review – The Dead Letters “The Dead Letters” EP
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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 even during the most raucous of gun battles, that...
CD Review – Keith Price “Breakfast of Champions”
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On Dec. 19, 2008, a group of musicians under the leadership of Keith Price assembled at Epiphany Lutheran Church in Winnipeg to record an album. This is the result: straight-ahead neo-bop jazz reminiscent of...
Amber Alert
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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, have been transforming the music scene in Winnipeg.
Amber Epp,...
Booze cruisin’ to the bottom
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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 is humourous, if you like laughing at people who...
What’s the big deal?
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Go ahead, think of a number at random, any number, I’ll wait . . . what was your number? If you chose was 67 then that’s kind of eerie, mainly because that was my...
Sometimes the best medicine is no medicine
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Mr. Wright was dying of cancer. Confined to his hospital bed, large tumors invaded much of his body. His prognosis was bleak — to say the least — yet he had not given up...
To the appendix, from the heart
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Dearest Appendix,
We need to talk. The vibe between us has been kind of, I don't know, "off" lately. You know what I'm talking about. The stilted conversation, the furtive glances. I feel like you...
