Nice stereo!

This past weekend Matt and I hosted a surprise birthday party for our good friend Antonio.  Despite my incredible butterflies and overall lack of faith in myself not to blow the whole thing, it was a success.
Surprise!
One of the highlights of the night for me came when a bunch of us were standing outside having [...]

I don’t cry like a little bitch when I can’t open my milk.

Matt and I went to see Louis CK perform at the Walker Theatre this past Friday and there’s no other way to say it: Best Standup Ever.  We got tickets months ago (using the same gift card we used to buy tickets to the aurally-disastrous Timber Timbre/Final Fantasy show a few weeks ago).  We’ve been [...]

Bad Shows and Bowling

Let me start this off by saying that I love going to see live music – no matter who the artist.  I’ll buy tickets to a show if I think it’ll be a good time, even if I’d never buy their CD (read: download their music illegally).  It really takes a lot to make me [...]

Human Rights…er, well, mostly.

Stu Murray is heading up the new Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg.  I hadn’t realized the vast experience he has with human rights – and by that I mean denying them to vast communities of people.
The gauzy glow of human rights, or, the crinoline of Canadian human rights
Murray was a member of the Conservative [...]

Change the ‘Hood

Featured in today’s Winnipeg Free Press are two articles based on the research that Elizabeth Comack and three other academics are doing on gang violence in Winnipeg’s inner city and north end.  They met with gang members back in August and discussed the ways in which they see gang violence changing in Winnipeg.  As per [...]

Canoe Trip Extraordinaire

This past long weekend I went on a canoe trip in the Whiteshell with Matt and 10 of our friends.  It was, obviously, amazing.

On Friday evening we rented canoes at Caddy Lake (where my grandparents have a cabin) and canoed north through to South Cross Lake, where we camped the night.  Two friends of ours [...]

Doer Out

So Manitoba’s NDP Premier has stepped down in order to go work for the Conservatives?  I guess he’s showing his true colours.  Besides the colour of a terrible spray-tan, that is.  I wonder if they can find an even more Liberal NDPer to take his place?

Do the Bus a Bus

I can’t do hangovers like I could ten years ago.  Despite the fact that this admission makes me feel incredibly, boringly old, it is the harsh reality that I was faced with this morning at 8:30 a.m. as I awoke to a wave of pain and anguish after drinking my face off on a Monday [...]

What the Folk

I’ve been going to the Winnipeg Folk Fest for a very, very long time.  My parents took me there when I was but a wee child, and I started camping there every year with friends when I was about 16 or 17 – whatever age it is when your parents start to losen their grip [...]

Chillin’ with Raekwon

On Friday night I invited a few friends over for drinks and apps before we all headed down to Blush to see Raekwon perform.  Mine and Meghan’s goal of getting our photo taken with every member of Wu Tang is slowly on its way to fruition.
After a few drinks (or, you know, a bottle of [...]