Arts
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Feel the love
Gil Carroll, Adam Soloway and Josh Winestock are the names behind the up-and-coming record label Real Love Winnipeg.
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Flying solo
What are the odds of a larger set, gruff-voiced bearded dude releasing an album called Beards?
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On their own, together
Sarah Roche, 28, and Lise McMillan, 30, have worked together for years, as students and company members of Winnipeg’s Contemporary dancers, but about two years ago the duo decided to break out on their own.
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Everyman theatre
Local theatre lovers can finally catch Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire’s 1989 off-Broadway musical revue Closer Than Ever right here in Winnipeg.
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A light in the darkness
Let there be light. And dark, too.
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So fresh and so clean
Since 2005, Winnipeg’s WNDX Festival of Moving Image has been breaking brains and melting eyeballs, exposing film audiences to the best in experimental film, installations, performances and video from here at home and around the world.
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The Grandmaster
Perhaps the most well known Chinese writer-director in North America, Wong Kar-Wai has made four decades worth of sensational and spell bounding films.
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Tiny Furniture
Prior to her critically acclaimed television series Girls, Lena Dunham won film audiences over with her second feature, 2010’s Tiny Furniture.
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Frosh financial
Be it tuition or textbooks, post-secondary school expenses seem to climb every year, but two Winnipeg bloggers are helping students get through university without being swallowed up by debt.
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Needs Improvement?
Jon Paul Fiorentino’s new collection of poetry Needs Improvement (Coach House Books) contains some of his best and most important work yet.
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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
When I spoke with Ofield Williams – the Grand Analog DJ and oft-hip hop producer – his group’s third and latest record Modern Thunder had already garnered critical acclaim since its release on August 20.
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The Proud Sons
This Winnipeg five piece evolved from radio rockers AM Glory (which evolved from Accepting Silence) and does power pop country served just right.
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The Young Pixels
To stop any Black Keys/White Stripes comparisons before they start - the Young Pixels are more in line with the Pixies’ Black Francis/Kim Deal, if they didn’t hate each other, had kids and lived on an organic farm near Brandon, Manitoba.
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Yes We Mystic
Originally formed in 2011, Yes We Mystic is a five-piece folk rock band from Winnipeg.
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The Heavy Blinkers
This Halifax project went away for a while, but it’s back and it’s beautiful and you missed it even if you didn’t know it.
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Tensile strength
In August, Montreal-based art rock band Braids released its second full-length album Flourish // Perish.
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Rapper’s delight
Local hip hop artist M-Kaps unveils his sophomore full length, Another Day, Another Sodoku on Saturday at the Park Theatre. The MC started getting into hip-hop as a teenager a decade ago, but things didn’t get serious until 2009 when he released the Supremium EP, a collection of tracks he had been working on during the five years prior.
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The World’s End
In 2004 British Director Edgar Wright tickled our funny bones with the delirious zombie satire Shaun of the Dead.
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The Manor
Ontario born Shawney Cohen began his film career as a digital effects artist for James Issac’s underwhelming Jason X.
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Keeping it in the family
Many filmmakers look to their surroundings for inspiration. In the case of Shawney Cohen, whose debut documentary The Manor hits Cinematheque this week, all it took was going back to work for his parents.