Arts
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Christmas with a conscience
Christmas traditions come from an inherently good place. In movies and pop music, the holiday season is all about taking a special moment to appreciate the people you love, bake cookies and learn life lessons from kind strangers with bird poop all over them.
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True self
When listening to such singers as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, with their powerful yet velvety singing voices, it might make you momentarily wish you had the ability to sing like that.
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Turn up the good!
Boys just want to have fun.
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Nutcracker, eh
For the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, nothing is more synonymous with the holidays than a local production of Nutcracker.
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The good news
Local humanitarian Amanda Furst is dabbling in documentary filmmaking to show Winnipeggers just what life in the East African nation of Tanzania is really like.
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No frills, no thrills
Winnipeg is teeming with writers. We tend to focus, however, on the authors who’ve published books when there are in fact many writers out there actively publishing great pieces online, in newspapers, literary journals and anthologies, too.
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Captive audience
Renowned horn soloist and conductor James Sommerville is coming to Winnipeg for one night of discussion and another evening of fantastic music.
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Rappin‘ like it’s a hobby
Having never seen Shad perform a set, I didn’t know quite what to expect from the 31 year-old Juno Award-winning emcee when he took the stage at Union Sound Hall.
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Moon Tan
This one’s a howler. A decade or so after The Darkness made kitsch sincere again, the children of this movement picked up instruments and unleashed a four song EP of hooky, numbing and epic space rock.
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Lucky Dog
Opening with “Ramblin’ Man’s Lament” and skating through nine other tracks of sleepy, Nick Drake with a twang acoustic mumbling, Zachary Lucky’s latest is best served with a Sunday nap and a warm blanket, listened to with a stray cat that you named after your wife who committed suicide.
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Dog Day
Having to double check whether or not I’d popped in a mid-90s Sonic Youth disc, I was happy to find that the sombre yet menacing guitar lines were that of Halifax’s favourite husband and wife duo, Dog Day.
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Cross Canada chaos
Toronto punk band PUP just released its debut self-titled album on October 8 through Royal Mountain Records, and its sophomore disc is right around the corner.
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Do the evolution
“(It’s) a bit like a recital,” Chic Gamine co-vocalist Alexa Dirks says of playing in her hometown of Winnipeg. “It’s mostly our family and friends, so I feel like we can have fun and make mistakes in front of them.”
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Shad keeps Stylin’
Consistency and honesty are difficult to maintain in a fickle hip hop industry. More often than not (or than we’d like to think) artists fall out of favour, disappear after a one-and-done, or simply struggle to stay relevant amidst changing tastes and attitudes.
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Last Vegas
60-something friends Billy (Michael Douglas), Paddy (Robert De Niro), Archie (Morgan Freeman) and Sam (Kevin Kline) have been best friends since childhood.
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Portrait of Jason
Every once in a while there are films that are so strange and alluring you just have to watch them to appease your own morbid curiosity.
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Musical medicine
Laughter? Nope, it’s music.
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Art imitating life, kind of
Set in River Heights, there’s lots of Winnipeg flavour in Social Studies, the new Prairie Theatre Exchange comedy by Trish Cooper, one of seven local female playwrights that’s debuting work this 2013/2014 season.
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Left punch
On March 3, Winnipeg political activist Nick Ternette died at the age of 68. Now, his memoirs have surfaced in an autobiography called Rebel Without a Pause.
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Woodshed Havoc
Local riff-rockers Woodshed Havoc deliver 10 tunes of southern fried shout rock to get you up and dancing, but is their formulaic radio rock ready for you?