Armin Wiebe says it was an anecdote about his grandparents that inspired his first play, The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz. The former University of Manitoba writer-in-residence says he recalled a story about his grandfather contracting poison ivy so severely that he had to wear a dress to harvest. “I started speculating on how [my [...]
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Is that all there is?
Well this is it folks — it’s the end of another publishing year at the Toban and quite possibly the end of “Essentially A Playlist.” I don’t know who the Arts Editor will be next year and whether they’ll let me continue my list-making and ramble-writing loosely held together by a bi-weekly theme. If they [...]
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Essentially a play list
It may have been more than 15 years since I was there, but the memory of a year living in Japan has remained with me through the ensuing years. I was actually there when the killer quake struck Kobe (while still earthshaking, the effects 200 kilometres away weren’t deadly), so the Sendai quake and tsunami [...]
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Unnecessary review
Unnecessary Review is a continuing column in which a rotating series of writers review something unnecessarily. In Robert Zemeckis’s trilogy Back to the Future, actress Claudia Wells, who played Jennifer Parker — Marty McFly’s girlfriend — was replaced in the second movie by Elisabeth Shue, causing the last shot in Back to the Future to [...]
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Getting digitally intimate
What can one say about a show called Projected Intimacy? Perhaps that it sounds singularly intimidating and cerebral. You might also say that it a collection of live streamed performances at Gallery One One One in the Fitzgerald Building. Or that it took place last week. Paradoxical though it is, the name is appropriate for [...]
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Up-and-comers at Outworks
Friday, March 11 brought Winnipeg another ten centimetres of snow, MPI a new batch of accident claims and the art scene a new exhibit of emerging talent. Outworks gallery hosted Fan-Taz-Um, a collective exhibit of new artists from the University of Manitoba. The show exhibited a wide range of styles and subjects that can give [...]
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Integral arts
“Collaborative” and “multimedia” are two words that get thrown around a lot in today’s art world. As art becomes more of an intellectual exercise and less of a craft, more artists find it possible to express their ideas in a variety of media and the boundaries between them fade away. Another prominent characteristic of the [...]
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Watching Armageddon
What does a Manitoba-born, Toronto-dwelling piano student turned guitar “partisan” have in common with rappers Chuck D and Flavor Flav? Please write in if you can think of something. Nevertheless, Public Enemy is one of the many groups musician Michael Peters cites as influences. “What I love about Public Enemy,” he said, “is they have [...]
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Never see Bieber
Two weeks ago, I was given the dubious assignment of writing a review of the Justin Bieber 3D biographical/concert movie Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. I put off seeing it for a week, hoping one of two things would happen: either the “higher ups” who commissioned the piece would forget about it or, by some [...]
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Try a little tenderness
Everybody likes music, which is why it should be illegal to call listening to it a hobby. It’s not a hobby if everyone on Earth does it, but I digress. Everybody likes music, and most of us probably have something to say about the music business. Maybe that it will chew you up and spit [...]