PTE's newest offering channels those taken in endless pattern of violence

Makambe K. Simamba’s Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers starts by making us wait. As the 2007 hip-hop track Crank That by Soulja Boy plays, evocative video projections by set designer Trevor Schwellnus spool out, white lines on black capturing a gated community at dark, moonlight or streetlight limning the outlines of trees and buildings, leaving the rest in shadow.

Museums exhibit solidarity with Black History Month programming

Black History Month has not gone unnoticed by Winnipeg’s major museums.

One-person emancipation proclamation

Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers: it’s a long title because it’s a long story, and to explain it in full would take Makambe K. Simamba far longer than one hour.

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Business leader Marcel Desautels left local legacy

Marcel Desautels, a Winnipeg business leader and one of the University of Manitoba’s major benefactors, died Tuesday in Toronto. He was 88.

If it’s cool and you dig it, enter it in Cool Digs

Grab your shovels and get building.

Originality of winning banner questioned

Questions are being raised about the winning design of the new Lunar New Year Chinese zodiac banner competition organized by Downtown Winnipeg BIZ and the Winnipeg Chinese Cultural and Community Centre.

Winnipeg New Music Festival kicks off with first of five concerts

The 2023 Winnipeg New Music Festival promised us ancestral tales with its opening, same-titled concert presented Saturday night. But it didn’t tell us that an explosive combustion of genre-bending, cultural forces could pack an emotional wallop able to carry us well into the future and beyond.

The annual celebration of contemporary music that runs through Friday, Feb. 3 presented its first of five evening concerts, “Ancestral Tales,” featuring five diverse works led by WSO music director and WNMF artistic director Daniel Raiskin.

River-trail hut designs runs deep into culture, history

Canoes and paddles have been synonymous with The Forks for thousands of years.

Manitoba icon becomes an international rock star

The stone that built Winnipeg is entering a rock hall of fame.

Ambitious soul, but Homegrown Heart

Country music these days is like traffic on Winnipeg streets — there are pickup trucks everywhere.

Add this Winterruption to your social calendar

Some people view the coldest months of the year as a hibernation period for music festivals and concerts in Manitoba. Winterruption (Jan. 20-29) is out to wake those people up.

This metaphor is a window into the art of science

When she lowers herself to the ground, Jessica B. Hill takes the form of a human pretzel, tying her legs one over the other and wrapping her loping fingers through the looped arm of her coffee mug.

Nickelback returns June 20

Nickelback is coming back to Winnipeg, and they’re bringing some country music pals along with them.

Vinyl re-issue of The Lake Winnipeg Fisherman brings back songs chronicling the Interlake

Ray Giguere, owner of Argy’s Records, once referred to The Lake Winnipeg Fisherman, a traditional, folk-music album recorded in 1970 by Riverton singer/songwriter Sol Sigurdson, as a “unicorn record.”

Star Trek rogue John de Lancie leans in to narrator role for Peer Gynt with WSO

Few can snap their fingers so audibly, and so famously, as John de Lancie.

It’s a handy skill for an actor who plays an omnipotent alien that can change the universe with the snap of his fingers while making life miserable for Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the starship Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation and other series in the franchise that explore “Space, the final frontier.”

Q, de Lancie’s roguish character that returned to the small screen last year in the Star Trek offshoot Picard, has become the actor’s calling card in the science-fiction realm.

Out of a stressful visit to the dentist comes laughter, empathy in absurdist play Le Soulier

Nine out of 10 kids hate going to the dentist.

Playful invitation into world of feeling like an outsider

Jim Morrow grew up in Newfoundland, so he says he knows what it feels like to be different.

Indigenous music series launches third season

The third season of a video series highlighting live performances and original new music by First Nation, Métis and Inuit artists will première on Facebook and YouTube on Jan. 20.