Dear Canada
You were an afterthought at best; the antipasti to my Ciceri e Tria. I had my sights firmly set on the land of the free, the home of the brave. Read More
Dispatches: How to wear out your welcome – part 2
Tiffy Thompson on house-guests from hell: "Now they had power, potable water, and my copy of Heathers." Read More
How we never really know our neighbours at all
The moans grew louder and sounded more like distress calls than sexual sounds, and considering Marie’s lack of socializing I immediately ruled out a late-night caller. Read More
Dispatches: How to wear out your welcome
Tiffy Thompson: "Our politesse and pervasive Canadian deference only encouraged them." Read More
Winterdoom: The Reckoning
Justin Robertson: "We turn into a rabid mess and wonder how much longer we can go on for, living in a disheveled, wet, numbing state." Read More
The unbearable rudeness of being
If society is characterized by relationships, then etiquette is insurance against those very relationships becoming insufferable. Read More
Interview: Winnipeg comedian Nelson Mayer
He’s performed at the Comedy Store in LA, ended up backstage at Jimmy Kimmel and has met and shared the stage with a dizzying number of North America's top comedians. On top of this, he's a married father of six and is gainfully employed which puts him in a different category than most comedians.
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Even more grumpy consciousness!
In Grumpy Young Man’s system, his columns are represented by two separate, yet equally unimportant groups. The column’s where he doesn’t drink and the column’s where he does drink. These are his (drunken) jokes. Read More
Scott Porteous: The king of awkward
Mr. Scott Porteous is a diamond in the rough in Winnipeg's burgeoning comedy scene. Read More
Navigating Netflix: A Shot in the Dark
Inspector Clouseau, the pride of the French Sûreté Read More
Keeping the laughs going
After seven years in comedy, Winnipeg entertainer (and insomniac) Chantel Marostica is putting her jokes on DVD. Read More
Kurt Braunohler and the importance of absurdity
This man wants to write jokes in the sky with clouds, and he wants you to help. Read More
Belly laughs and sandwich halves
Edmonton comedian Jon Mick is here, he's weird, and he's about to go all tuna melt on your funny bone. Read More
Top 10 Tweets by Tim Hoover (AKA: DJ Co-op)
All the best about doing sex and jumping to conclusions. Read More
Top 10 comics of 2012
The purpose of this list is not to tell any of you what you should think or like, but to share a flicker of passion for a medium and its story tellers in the hopes that a few more people will fall in love with the idiosyncratic heartbeat that only thumps in the musty shelves of a comic store. Read More
Most overused and/or annoying food terms of 2012
10. foodie Click here for Spectator Tribune’s entire list of Top 10s 9. conserva (using the Italian word doesn’t make it more interesting.) 8. unctuous… Read More