Aug 24th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
My final post on Winnipeg takes a gander at three remarkable features of the city and its hinterlands: The Forks; Lake Winnipeg day trips; and some engaging oddities.
1. The Forks. This multipurpose space, located at the confluence of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in Winnipeg's downtown, today houses a market area, shops, several bars, a recreational area, a fabulous hotel, and the site of ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Winnipeg top three: The Forks, day trips, & engaging oddities
Aug 24th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
My final post on Winnipeg takes a gander at three remarkable features of the city and its hinterlands: The Forks; Lake Winnipeg day trips; and some engaging oddities.
1. The Forks. This multipurpose space, located at the confluence of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in Winnipeg's downtown, today houses a market area, shops, several bars, a recreational area, a fabulous hotel, and the site of ...Winnipeg's Plug In: Contemporary art on the prairie
Aug 23rd, 2010 at 11:00AM:
Winnipeg's contemporary art scene has developed an undeniable and persistent buzz, thanks in no small part to the city's own Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art. Founded in 1972, Plug In has been central to Winnipeg's evolution as an important center of contemporary art. Those with their fingers on the pulse of contemporary art and film will already know that the Royal Art Lodge's members hail ...Winnipeg: Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Aug 19th, 2010 at 2:30PM:
Currently under construction in Winnipeg is the very ambitious Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The museum, which occupies a part of The Forks complex in Winnipeg, was the brainchild of Winnipeg's late media mogul Izzy Asper. It has received funding from an impressive range of federal, provincial, municipal, and private sources. The museum will emphasize human rights as a global subject, though ...Winnipeg's locavore restaurant wave
Aug 17th, 2010 at 11:00AM:
Manitoba is pretty far north, all things considered. On its southern edge, the province straddles the Minnesota-North Dakota state line; to the north, the province stretches to the 60th parallel, where it borders the territory of Nunavut. Yet despite its northerly geography, Manitoba has enough frost-free days to generate some significant agricultural production. Here's the locavore math: Local ...Winnipeg: Folklorama
Aug 12th, 2010 at 3:30PM:
In Winnipeg, as in most big Canadian cities, there is an unassimilated immigrant presence at the surface of daily life. Canada has an official policy of multiculturalism, enshrined in the constitution, and cultural displays of difference are actively encouraged by federal and provincial governments. Winnipeg's diversity is impressive. The city has a significant Francophone minority, several ...Why Winnipeg should be on your radar
Aug 12th, 2010 at 10:00AM:
When I first visited Winnipeg, in 2005, I did so on the advice of an art world acquaintance in New York who spent a lot of professional time in Canada. I asked him which Canadian city he deemed to be coolest. After a perfunctory nod to Montreal, he zeroed in on Winnipeg. He cited the city's high culture, its dynamic contemporary creative figures, its prairie sunsets, and its very undiscovered ...Canadian prairie road trip day three: Regina-Winnipeg
Aug 6th, 2010 at 1:30PM:
On the third and sadly final full day of our Canadian prairie road trip adventure, we wake up slowly in Regina. We race around the city before taking off for our long journey to Winnipeg, first stopping at a bakery and convenience store in the Cathedral Village neighborhood, and then dashing over to the bustling Atlantis Coffee at Hamilton and Victoria, where the espresso is good and the ...Canadian prairie road trip day two: Saskatoon-Regina
Aug 3rd, 2010 at 11:30AM:
Our proper road trip begins early at Saskatoon John G. Diefenbaker International Airport. We are headed to Regina via Moose Jaw, and not a moment too soon. We're stir crazy and we can't wait to get on the road. We pick up our rental from a grinning car rental company employee and we're off. As we round Saskatoon, not yet into the suburbs, we can already see flat prairie fields.
About a half ...Canadian prairie road trip day one: Calgary-Saskatoon
Aug 2nd, 2010 at 10:30AM:
The first day of our three-day road trip had to be reworked when we discovered that it is impossible to arrange a one-way car rental from Calgary to Winnipeg. After a half-day spent checking out the appealing Boho mish-mash of Calgary's Inglewood neighborhood, we nabbed a ride to the airport and checked in for our almost completely full flight to Saskatoon.
The Calgary airport, much like ...Neighborhood watch: Inglewood, Calgary
Jul 30th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
Inglewood street scene.
A little neighborhood adjacent to downtown, Inglewood has emerged over the last several years as one of Calgary's most dynamic 'hoods. Inglewood is the oldest neighborhood in a city full of new builds financed by oil revenue. Happily, the neighborhood carefully safeguards its buildings, and the façades of Ninth Avenue SE, its main strip, are in no danger of ...The great Canadian prairie road trip: Calgary-Saskatoon-Regina-Winnipeg
Jul 27th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
This road trip had its genesis in idle travel fantasy chat, as so many journeys do. A few months ago my friend Melissa and I discussed how much we wanted to do a road trip together over the summer, and we cranked out a number of ambitious itineraries. The craziest of all involved Melissa driving 18 hours by herself from Colorado to Alberta to pick me up prior to an eastward run across Canada. ...
