Thomas Pashko

Managing editor  

  • CRITIPEG: Gas Can

    Mattias Graham’s Gas Can is a seemingly simple short film.

  • Whose house? Sonya’s House!

    Sonya Ballantyne is at the forefront of Winnipeg’s new wave of Indigenous cinema.

  • CRITIPEG: Accumulation of Moments Spent Under Water with the Sun and Moon

    Charlene Vickers’ Accumulation of Moments Spent Under Water with the Sun and Moon is an art show with the future on its mind. 

  • Whose House? James and Jessica’s House!

    James Korba and Jessica Nagy have only been living together since August, but the couple says that a theme to their home has quickly emerged.

  • CRITIPEG: Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada

    Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada, the new anthology by Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA), is the first book on feminist art across all media ever published in Canada.

  • Whose House? Ashley’s House!

    Ashley Burdett spends her days as a hairstylist and her nights as a stand-up comedian.

  • CRITIPEG: Unarmed Verses

    Unarmed Verses is a miracle of a movie – the kind of minor masterpiece that makes clear why documentaries are reaching new heights of popularity.

  • CRITIPEG: Faces Places (Visages, Villages)

    Unlikely connections are at the core of Faces Places.

  • Whose House? Mitch’s House!

    The term “musician” feels too vague to sum up Mitch Dorge’s accomplishments. 

  • CRITIPEG: Ruches fantĂ´mes / Ghost Hives

    Ruches fantômes / Ghost Hives, the newest exhibition by artist Valérie Chartrand, uses multiple media to explore disappearing bees with apocalyptic regard.

  • Whose House? Tesia’s House!

    Tesia Rhind is quickly becoming one of Winnipeg’s most-talked-about tattoo apprentices. 

  • CRITIPEG: The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

    Documentarian Errol Morris has made some of the medium’s most defining pictures. The Fog of War earned him an Oscar, and The Thin Blue Line wrote the book on true-crime docs while freeing an innocent man from death row.

  • Whose House? Todd’s House!

    Propagandhi has always been a political band. Since their inception in 1986, the group has embraced an anarcho-punk ethos centred on social justice that seems especially relevant in 2017. However, bassist and vocalist Todd Kowalski says that 2017 is business as usual for Propagandhi.

  • Critipeg: SHARDS

    Gallery 1C03’s SHARDS is an active conversation between history and the present. 

  • Whose House? Bailee’s House!

    Ever since she began playing music in high school, local musician Bailee Woods has stuck by one key philosophy: give your bands weird names.

  • 43,001 nights at the movies

    The moviegoing experience has been a part of Winnipeg culture since the 19th century. More than just a leisure activity, how and where Winnipeggers see movies can be a barometer for gauging local cultural and economic trends.

  • Critipeg: Stalker

    A surreal and sprawling sci-fi meditation, Stalker is set in a dystopian future society whose fabric is forever altered by the appearance of “The Zone,” a mysterious geographic space of seemingly otherworldly origins.

  • Whose House? George and Jennifer’s House!

    Teaching has been a constant factor in the lives of George Buri and Jennifer Cheslock. Buri, a history educator at the University of Manitoba and the University of Winnipeg, first began teaching in 2009, shortly before Cheslock moved on from her gig as a high school art teacher to work in theatre.

  • Critipeg: Obit

    The word “obituary” can have misleading connotations. 

  • Whose House? Carrie’s House!

    “I don’t think our exes should be exiled.” This is the core sentiment behind Loverboys, the new solo exhibition by visual artist Carrie Bryson.

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