C. Jordan Crosthwaite
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New librarian taking the books to where students live and work — and walk
Libraries are changing faster than you can Google “e-book,” and the University of Winnipeg library is trying to keep up. Some school libraries have sold off their print collections in favour of online-libraries. The U of W library isn’t there yet, but new library dean Jane Duffy plans to shake up how students hit the books.
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Arts Briefs
New York Cuisine; Raffling Picasso; Stylish Sterility; Haute-Couture for Hire
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The playing field has been levelled
It’s easy to get drowned out in the waves of social media – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more – but it’s also easy to have your voice heard. It’s easy to feel like your presence in the world is larger, now that you have your own YouTube soapbox.
“People have to really think about how they present themselves to a much bigger world via social networking,” said Laurie Cirivello, the executive director of the Grand Rapids Community Media Center. -
Arts Briefs
Find a Penny, Pick it Up ; Billboard Banditry ; Swine-Flu Cereal ; Disney: Back to Basics
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Comics: Collecting, conventions and academics
Popular film adaptations of comics like Watchmen, Hellboy and the blockbuster run of Spider-Man, Batman and other superhero movies, are some of the most visible manifestations of comic books entering the mainstream consciousness.
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Memory and looking back
He is largely regarded as one of the best and most innovative cartoonists at work today, and he goes by one name only: Seth.
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LITTLE GIRLS - Concepts
Toronto’s Little Girls play dark, rolling, muddy pop songs.
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Arts Briefs
Expensive socializing; Better off at Dollarama; The Illustrated Old Testament: Rated R; Private Internet
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Arts Briefs
Animal rights vs. art rights; Agent Mustard in the study with the iPhone; Are there laser beams in my cornflakes?; The return of a classic
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Arts Briefs
Japanese slasher-babe turns to politics; Style cops police at university; Amateur porn fest sells out; Pothole porridge; Dramatic delinquent assaulted in San Fransisco
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Eating on campus at the University of Winnipeg
In a downtown campus bent on urban renewal and community integration, and in a neighbourhood famous for cultural diversity and some of Canada’s best ethnic food, the shift from Chartwells to Diversity Food Services at the University of Winnipeg makes perfect sense.
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Arts Briefs
Getting off when the stock market crashes; Manson contracts H1N1, continues to bore audiences; Fascism vs. Socialism: The Chess Game; Shlocky novel prized by readers in China; Fine art contraceptives
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Living like a pirate in modern times
Pirate life, in many ways, hasn’t changed for 300 years.
Pirates off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden, bankrolled by landlubber warlords, threaten worldwide trade with a degree of fearlessness, organization and camaraderie that harkens to the old-time pirates from what is affectionately referred to as The Golden Age of Piracy.
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Arts Briefs
TV on the Magazine ; Nabokov on the news ; A Funny Recession ; Taking it to the Streets ; The Pirate Bay in Your Neighborhood
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Arts Briefs
Censorship in Scotland; The Jedi face discrimination; Monkey’s prefer Monkey Music, Metallica; Punkers go prancing
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All about the other student debt
Statistics Canada cites that 45 per cent of undergraduates at universities carry debt, with an average of nearly $20,000. Those statistics surely refer to Canada Student Loans and student credit at banks. But librarians, barkeeps and video store clerks tell a story even more horrific than Statistics Canada.
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But what about the books?
If you check the local events listings, it’s likely you’ll come across a concert, lecture or art show at the Millennium Library. If you need free Wi-Fi or study space or an espresso, your local public library will do the trick.
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Arts Briefs
Polaroid sells its Warhol Polaroids; Ikea changes font; Smells like fungus; American Apparel loses advertising over too-young nude model
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Arts Briefs
No nudity at the Met; Well-designed water; Artists seek refuge in crumbling ruins; Alice Cooper wants to rock out, sing in a musical
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Taking it to the streets
This weekend one of Winnipeg’s fastest growing festivals is celebrating its fifth year running, and no, it’s not at Bird’s Hill Park. The Sherbrook Street Festival is just one of several block-parties that happen throughout the warmer months in Winnipeg.