Nicholas Friesen
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The power of positive pop
It’s been five years since Winnipeg pop/R&B songstress Flo released her self-titled debut, but the girl hasn’t been sitting around waiting for the phone to ring. Opening for the likes of Lauryn Hill, recording with Western Canadian Music Award-winning producer Arun Chaturvedi and writing up a storm, Flo’s sophomore disc, Pieces of Me is the culmination of a lot of positive things.
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Man at work
Born on Prince Edward Island, raised in Ottawa and living in Winnipeg for the past nine years, artist Seth Woodyard is on a whole other level.
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Movie review round-up
A look at what’s playing at Cinematheque this month.
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Beyond downtown
We here at The Uniter’s Arts & Culture section spend the better part of the year focusing on artists and the events that happen in the downtown area. From shows at the Lo Pub to exhibitions on the University of Winnipeg campus, there is a lot going on right here.
But where does this art and culture come from? Since nobody was born cool in the basement of the Royal Albert, we decided to find out what kind of great art was being made and what trends were happening all around Winnipeg. -
More Music this Month
More Music this Month
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Ten years in and better than ever
It’s hard to believe that the University of Winnipeg Student Film Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary this April - mostly because few festivals in the city have lasted as long.
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More music this week
More music this week
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More music this week
More music this week.
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The F Holes
Creepy, spooky, fun and with great musicianship to spare, local five-piece the F Holes deliver 12 tracks to get you groovin’.
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Split Crooked
The press release describes the band as though “Alicia Keys and Glenn Danzig shared vocals in a still ‘Unplugged’ Nirvana.”
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Hootin’ and hollerin’
When Danny Hacking of local rock quartet The Hoots calls me, he’s apologetic.
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Happy Father’s Day
In 2010, local indie film production team Astron-6 inked a deal with B-movie crusaders Troma Entertainment to fund and distribute Father’s Day, a violent revengesploitation comedy about paternal love gone awry.
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More music this week
More music this week
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Rock ‘n’ roll animal
If you ever caught punk quartet The Squareheads during its short tenure as Winnipeg’s most dangerous band, you walked away from the show with one thing on your mind:
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Something different
I have a little giggle every time I walk into Elements, the restaurant located in the gorgeous University of Winnipeg science building - and that giggle is because of the name.
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MIKE O’NEILL
Crashing in with the warm warble we all adored from his days in The Inbreds, Mike O’Neill’s This Is Who I Am helps to kick off this power pop gem of a disc.
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CONSUMER GOODS
Opening with the eight-minute epic Up In Flames, this fourth disc from the newest incarnation from former Winnipegger Tyler Shipley’s Consumer Goods is a step in a different direction.
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More music this week
More music this week
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More music this week
More music this week
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The world is ending, cue the music!
There are countless movies about the end of the world. Some take a realistic approach, while others are totally over the top. Here’s a rundown of each style and if any of them could actually happen.