Culture
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Scouring the TED waste bin
With the TEDxManitoba event coming up on Feb. 15, there are a lot of powerful ideas waiting to be unleashed into the intellectual culture of Winnipeg.
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New Exchange District eatery lives up to its promise
Spanish restaurants are popping up around Winnipeg, perhaps hinting towards the next food trend.
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U of W students battle the elements during last hockey game of the Spence Street Hockey League
As heaps of snow engulfed every corner of the city on Friday, Jan. 28, the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) SnoWeek wrapped up with the last game of the Spence Street Hockey League (SSHL).
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Sudoku and Crossword Solutions for the puzzles from Jan. 27, 2011.
Sudoku and Crossword Solutions for the puzzles from the Jan. 27, 2011 issue.
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Fashion Streeter
My style is mood-based, seasonal and constantly evolving. -
Strange and wacky, yet totally functional
Beards are the sexiest and warmest type of facial hair for the winter season.
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Making children’s dreams come true, one wish at a time
Most women jump at any opportunity to throw on a sexy pair of sling-backs, but Gina Nasuti and Karine Driedger have taken it to a whole new level.
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Fashion Streeter
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Freud’s Bathhouse and Diner set to close
Less than a year after opening, an Exchange District art space that left an indelible mark on Winnipeg’s art scene as a place for outsider and alternative art is closing.
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‘We don’t have to go all the way, we’ll just lie here and hold each other’
Every couple goes through a series of unavoidable stages, some of those emotional, the more interesting and hilarious ones, physical. Which sexual stage is your relationship in?
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Pan-fried and excellent
OK, so the Black Sheep Diner didn’t win the best breakfast award this year from local breakfast bloggers the Breakfast Connoisseurs (though they did in 2008), but the Black Sheep is a great alternative if you’re feeling burnt out from your other options.
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A dramatic display of Colombia and its culture
Described as abstract, humorous, satirical, saddening and undeniably beautiful all at once, Colombian-born artist Fernando Botero is a living legend.
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Fragmenting the psyche
Contradiction, irony and duality are often notable themes in today’s postmodern world.
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Pumping iron at 2 a.m.
Can’t sleep? Go work out.
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Fashion Streeter
Minimal. -
Politicians on the dark side, hysteria and the end of the world
John Cusack, the Mayans and an array of melodramatic doomsday theorists would all have us believe that this year, 2011, will be our last before the apocalypse.
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Fashion Streeter
I’m tall. I do everything but pants. -
Fashion Streeter
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Crossword and Sudoku solutions from the Dec. 2, 2010 issue.
Crossword and Sudoku solutions from the Dec. 2, 2010 issue.
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Welcome to the new bingo: erotic bingo
Winnipeg is naughtier than ever before. With a number of hotels and bars in the city offering weekly erotic bingo nights, the popularity of the game is proving that bingo isn’t just for grandma anymore.