Features
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The Venue + The Nightspot
Union Sound Hall has hit the ground running since opening in August 2013.
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The Celebrity
Chances are you’ve heard Ace Burpee’s unique voice at some point, either while he is hosting his popular morning show on 103.1 Virgin Radio, speaking at a charity event or doing his live on location work all over Winnipeg.
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The Winnipegger Abroad
With family heritage in Nigeria and Manitoba, and having performed across Canada, Aisha Alfa has a brilliant passion for Winnipeg.
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The Photographer
It is easy to see why so many voted April Dawn Plett as their favourite photographer.
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The Athlete
Locally grown hockey player Jonathan Toews will go for gold at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, with the goal to make his country proud once again.
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The Writer
There’s no shortage of people with talent in this city. The rare finds, though, are those that have a work ethic, drive or attention to detail that matches their natural gifts.
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The Comedian
When you meet J.D. Renaud, he comes across as a humble, down to earth, and creative guy.
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Take only pictures, leave only footprints
A city in flux, Winnipeg is always expanding outward. Peripheral suburbs, cul-de-sacs, IKEA. All are believed to be icons of progress and growth. They indicate the existence of ambition, planning and a middle class.
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Musical medicine
Laughter? Nope, it’s music.
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Winnipeg through the eyes of a tourist
Whenever you visit a new place, you seek out new adventures and experiences to revel in. It intrigued me how positive most of these people were about this city. Perhaps these are the people to ask what our city is all about. What were their expectations and how did Winnipeg live up to them?
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This place is a factory
When someone says family band, the mind immediately jumps to something of the Partridge persuasion, the Carpenters, or Dr. Fünke’s 100% Natural Good-Time Family Band Solution. It’s no gimmick, but rather a way of life with local musician Sandy Taronno.
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Hometown Haunted
Winnipeggers ain’t afraid of no ghosts.
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Seeing beyond the trees
Having an independent record label in 2013 doesn’t mean the same thing it did 10 or 20 years ago (or even one year ago).
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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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The green in between
Green space: unnatural nature. Serving the purpose of efficiency, urban planning and design allow dense populations to access everything they need, or need to do, in a timely fashion – the city. The way it looks correlates to the way its infrastructure gets organized around its most vigorous economic activity – the cityscape.
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Label Makers
Many Winnipeg record labels are gearing up to release music by a variety of local artists and out-of-town musicians this fall.
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Boundary breaking books
Charlene Diehl – director of Thin Air 2013 – is determined to change people’s perceptions of what the festival actually is.
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Measuring our lives with coffee spoons
Around the year 850, a young shepherd named Kaldi was traversing the Ethiopian Highlands when he noticed his goats acting erratically – so spirited, in fact, they could not sleep at night. Kaldi quickly concluded that his herd had been munching on berries from a strange tree and so reported his findings to the abbot of a local monastery. After consuming a drink made with the suspect berries, so goes the legend, the abbot became alert for the long hours of evening prayer.
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Where are they playing?
Whether you're a new post-secondary student wondering where the cool music can be found downtown or a music lover that can't keep track of which venues are open or closed (the last year has seen the Lo Pub, Negative Space, Pop Soda's, Republic and more shut down) the Uniter hopes this grid of its favourite downtown live music venues will fill your sound-hungry belly.
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Shine On Festival of Music and Art
Held in the heart of the Sandilands Forest, the Shine On Festival of Music and Art has been going strong since 2005 as a laid-back yet experimental music festival.