Patrick Harney
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Favourite local writer
1. Sheldon Birnie
2. Owen Toews
3. Zoe Mills
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Favourite local public art piece
1. emptyful by Bill Pechet
2. Riley Grae mural
3. Cinematheque bathroom by JD Renaud
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Are they beyond salvation?
Last year, traditional Catholics, or trad Caths, were brought to wider attention when The New York Times published the article “New York’s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church.”
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Stopping here
In her book On Fire, Naomi Klein describes a conversation with farmer-poet Wendell Berry. In their discussion, Klein asks Berry for advice “for rootless people like me and my friends, who disappear into our screens and always seem to be shopping for the perfect community where we should put our roots down.”
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The carsharing alternative
The ever-increasing demands of private car ownership hold Winnipeg’s infrastructure captive. Parkades suck up valuable real estate, multi-lane highways seemingly run through every intersection, and important services are frequently placed in distant industrial parks.
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Is the truth out there?
While conflict in the Gaza Strip intensifies, media outlets have begun to highlight the new form that information warfare has taken.
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Post-post-punk
Within music circles, the prefix “post” is often attached to an ever-growing array of genres including post-rock, post-metal and post-harcore.
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Drowning in tech junk
In the modern world, tech junk inundates people’s daily lives. Old phones, chargers with frayed cables or the rarely spoken-to Google Nest devices represent the outdated, worn out or useless.
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Challenges for daycares
Behind Richardson College for the Environment sits a small orange building full of much smaller people. Atop three bubble-like windows, the building reads “University of Winnipeg Students’ Association Day Care.”
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University culture in flux
As a smaller institution, fostering an internal culture is integral to attracting students to the University of Winnipeg (U of W). When I weighed my options, my perception of the university’s culture brought me in.
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‘Made with collective care’
From April 5 to 9, Prairie Theatre Exchange will host Phase 4.0, a dance show presented by Alexandra Elliott Dance.
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‘An architectural jewel’
Places + Spaces: Winnipeg is a series of documentary vignettes that puts the structures, histories and politics of Winnipeg’s built environment on screen.
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Competition in bits and bytes
Over the past decade, professional video gaming, or esports, have rapidly ascended from basement LAN parties and dank arcades to sold-out stadiums across the globe.
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Taking pop seriously
Local up-and-coming pop artist Carlo Capobianco is set to release his debut album at the end of the month.
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‘Everyone has their turnip’
Canadian comedian Ali Hassan, host of CBC’s Laugh Out Loud and Canada Reads, is coming to the West End Cultural Centre on March 15 as a part of his Does This Taste Funny? comedy tour.
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Sounding it out
The age-old spelling bee will soon meet the age-older beer.
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Turning an old trope on its head
In 2021, Hannah Moscovitch’s Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes won the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language drama
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‘Wouldn’t it be funny if we’ started a restaurant?
Despite its meme-laden aesthetic, South Osborne’s Hoagie Boyz restaurant creates unironically delicious classic Italian subs that are simultaneously approachable and extravagant.
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‘Little ephemeral gems’
For several months each year, a heap of snow blankets Winnipeg, signaling the beginning of the city’s great slumber.
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Coming to you independent and ad-free
Between the same couple hits playing over and over, disc jockeys seemingly talking about nothing and the blare of advertisements, finding quality radio can seem like an impossible task.