Creative Writing Contest: Second place
Our car sputtered along the dirt road across the thick prairie plains. It was a gorgeous, hot summer day: the sun sizzled like a sliced…
Arts & Culture
How to peel a banana
A few months ago I began to notice that the bananas I bought were becoming increasingly difficult to peel. While I could at one time…
The Decade in Arts
Whoa. What was that? Did you just see that?? I think that was a “decade” that just ripped right past us. Damn. “The 00s,” “The…
The Decade in Arts (sucked, btw)
Like most people who lack the intellectual capacity for nuanced thought, I love a sweeping statement. The huger the better. Indeed, most of my utterances…
Dollars for Darlings
Artists know that local initiatives are the key to maintaining and developing a vibrant arts community. Just ask Vanessa Kuzina, lead vocalist and guitar player…
The Global Canvas
Imagine a canvas so vast it spans the entire globe. What if I told you this canvas already exists? Artists and non-artists alike from nearly…
Not over the Hill
On Jan. 4, 2007, at the age of 36, animator Helen Hill was murdered, for no known reason, in her home in the midst of…
It’s a wonderful play (within a play)
The Manitoba Theatre Centre celebrated their 52nd anniversary with the opening of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, an engaging and entertaining twist on…
CD Review : Mike Roe “We All Gonna Face the Rising Sun”
Holy fuck! I swear to God, I said those words, out loud, multiple times during my initial listen to Mike Roe’s history of southern gospel…
CD Review : The xx “The xx”
There’s something undeniably refreshing about a group of 20-year-olds writing and self-producing one of the best albums of 2009. I’m referring here to The xx,…