The Manitoban

Archive for October, 2010

• U of M Symphony Orchestra opens season with American classics

  The University of Manitoba Symphony Orchestra begins its second year under Maestro Richard Lee this week on Oct. 27 with the first of four performances scheduled for the year. The first concert includes works by American greats Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin, Russian romantic Aleksandr Borodin and the University of Manitoba’s own Robert Turner. Maestro [...]

• Millenium trilogy triumph

  If there ever was a series that would have the honour of the title “The Series,” it would be this one. Based off of the national bestselling author Steig Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy comes some of the best films of a generation. This third film in the series starts with a bang, as the second film [...]

• Owen Pallett on angels, the country and Czech orchestras

  Perhaps the most compelling aspect of the music of Toronto’s Owen Pallett — classical violinist, composer, founder of Final Fantasy (a name under which he no longer performs) and occasional member of Arcade Fire — is its embrace of dichotomous tensions. Take, for example, his latest album Heartland, which Pallett describes as a “pop album [...]

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  Bison athlete profile

  Sport: Hockey Position: Defence Hometown: Debolt, AB, Canada Bisons defence Kacey Funk begins the 2010-11 season having played 56 total regular season conference games for Manitoba, including all 24 regular season games and five playoff games last season. Funk has accumulated three goals and 10 assists in her 56-game regular season playing career with the [...]

• Why I want to date a dugong

  I recently went to Australia to volunteer and travel the beautiful countryside along with some friends in a program called International Student Volunteers. With certain ulterior motives that involved being swept off my feet by a younger Hugh Jackman, I began said quest. Instead of finding a man, I found something so much better. I [...]

• Australia you’ve changed me

  Any avid traveler can testify that leaving a country you have just explored and fallen in love with can be a heart wrenching and difficult thing. I was terribly sad to leave Australia and its beautiful and breathtaking scenery, its strange animals and its marvellous people. So after spending a month in this new and [...]

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  Lack of conviction in speech and you!

  Starting in the spring of 2010 I found myself starting to dabble in the idea of slam poetry. Slam poetry is a kind of poetry that holds true to an antithesis of formality, commonly found in traditional forms of poetry, and is culturally relevant to young people. I stumbled upon poet after poet that constantly [...]

• Sex and the campus

  I, like many people, previously had a love affair. It lasted quite a while, but has recently been on hold for a prolonged period of time. I had an affair with what I thought was the perfect yam fry — delicious, orange in colour, perfectly shaped every time and with just the right texture. Yes, [...]

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  Going underground

  The time of year is fast approaching in which the entire population of the U of M moves underground. Naps on the quad and games of pick-up soccer are soon to be replaced with vitamin D deficient shuffles through our tunnel system. I thought that most universities had an underground tunnel system like ours, but [...]

• Sex and the campus

  The advertising and marketing executives are always looking for untapped markets, and so it is with dating. We are always looking for people we haven’t contacted or entire places we haven’t been before. Certainly, in a city the size of Winnipeg, there aren’t many places you can go without finding someone who is more than [...]