Arts
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Putting Redman in a seven-foot deep hole
New York’s Cey Adams, founding Creative Director of Def Jam Records, spoke in the University of Winnipeg’s Riddell cafeteria on Thursday, October 3, 2013 as part of the UWSA's Freestyle Festival. I enjoyed an evening of colourful tales of rappers from the 1980s and early 1990s, artists whom Adams had worked or rubbed shoulders with during his tenure at Def Jam.
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The magnificent seven
‘Peg playwrights Alix Sobler, Cairn Moore, Trish Cooper, Carolyn Gray, Debbie Patterson, Jessy Ardern and Ginny Collins are all debuting new plays in the 2013-2014 theatre season. In an art form that’s typically dominated by male writers, having seven female playwrights produced in a single season in one city is incredible.
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Shad
Shad is Canada’s patron saint of self-deprecating rap.
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Mitten Claps
The soft vocals and intimate guitars & percussion of this Winnipeg duo, made up of Jonathan and Randall Hildebrand, is one of those sunny day treasures.
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Electric Soul
Local four piece Electric Soul brings you Second Paradise.
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Hardcore in the middle of the day
All-ages hardcore matinee shows are making a comeback in Winnipeg, and it’s all thanks to Ray Guyot and Jon Mayo, the two men who co-founded Icebox Productions earlier this summer.
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No help wanted
Canadian country rockers the Sadies are back with Internal Sounds, the highly anticipated follow-up to Darker Circles, a shortlisted nominee for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize.
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Special Ed
Winnipeg has had its share of strange and unusual characters.
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Don Jon
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a charismatic actor with a wide range of films in his repertoire.
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Rookie of the year
Chester, Nova Scotia-based filmmaker Jason Buxton made his feature film debut last year with Blackbird, the story of a troubled teen who is wrongly accused of planning a Columbine-esque high school shooting spree.
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Contemporary literature meets modern ballet in a Handmaid’s Tale
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is known for bringing us revamped versions of tried-and-true classics, such as last season’s portrayal of The Sleeping Beauty, but the RWB’s bold adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale – a 1985 novel written by award-winning Canadian author Margaret Atwood – promises to be something that regular ballet audiences have never seen before.
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Young Galaxy
Vancouver’s Young Galaxy made the Polaris Music Prize Short List for its (incredible) fourth record Ultramarine.
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PUP
PUP (formerly known as Topanga - changed after a tantrum because <i>Girl Meets World</i> is maybe a thing) is kind of Toronto’s answer to The Cribs or The Vines (and a million other bands that blend dirty guitars, group yells and mayhem with clean production) and the four piece is really immediate and intense while still being lots of fun.
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Little Miss Higgins & The Winnipeg Five
Drop the needle. A ghostly guitar lick and the bluesy voice of Saskatchewan’s Little Miss Higgins enter the room.
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CFCF
Celestial, astral, extraterrestrial.
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Hillbilly hope
Three years after the release of the To the Last Drop LP, Cheering for the Bad Guy returns with Next Year Country, its third full-length record.
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Iron men
Cancer Bats are bringing their alter ego Bat Sabbath to the Pyramid Cabaret on October 10, banging out tunes originally recorded by British heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath.
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Molière gets Winnipeg’d
Many plays have been adapted for present day’s stage and screen, but award winning playwright Carolyn Gray’s adaptation of Molière’s 1668 satire The Miser is a little more Winnipeg-centric than most.
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True grit
In an age in which everything is online, forgettable and undocumented, two Winnipeggers have come together to get ripped.
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Grace Unplugged
Christianity and film are usually at odds in some way or another.