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CD Review – The Dead Letters “The Dead Letters” EP

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Kevin Doole
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...
Arts & Culture

CD Review – Keith Price “Breakfast of Champions”

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John Herbert Cunningham
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...
Arts & Culture

Amber Alert

By
John Herbert Cunningham
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,...
Arts & Culture

Booze cruisin’ to the bottom

By
Sheldon Birnie
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...
News

What’s the big deal?

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Leif Larsen
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...
News

Sometimes the best medicine is no medicine

By
Jen Robinson
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...
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To the appendix, from the heart

By
Damian Purdy
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...

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