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Focus On Filipino Music
This issue’s article was written by guest contributor Christine Mazur, whose love for the Filipino culture extended to her having learned to speak Filipino, travelled the Philippines a number of times with his friend
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A New Appetite for Guns N’ Roses (Aug. 24, Investors Group Field)
I had to attend to something important hours before the Winnipeg leg of Guns N’ Roses’ “Not in This Lifetime” Tour, which was held at the Investors Group Field, on August 24, the reason
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Video Killed the Radio Star? Not Really
(On the Significance of Music Videos) In the Internet age, YouTube is perhaps the biggest source of music videos. Whenever a music fan wants to check out a new song by her favorite artists
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Sheeran at MTS: The Little Red-Haired One-Man Band
Born on February 17, 1991, in West Yorkshire, England, the award-winning singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran started his singing career as early as 2004, independently releasing collections of his original materials. He eventually signed with a
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Were You an Atari Baby?
(On ’80s Video Games) If you were a kid or a teenager in the late ’70s or the mid-’80s, then you were surely one of those who spent countless hours in that era playing
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Hey, You! Don’t Sing That Song!
(False Sense of Entitlement) Story #1: Justin Bieber covers the song “Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division. Many fans of the seminal English Post-Punk band protested, starting to ridicule Bieber; some even
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Remembering Filipino Backyard (or Street) Games (part 2)
Most of what many Filipinos regard as traditional backyard games of their culture are actually just derivations from or variations of foreign games, which were handed down to the Philippine culture some generations ago,
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Are You Sexy for the DKF Fashion and Singing Show?
DKF Runway 2017 June 16, Friday District Stop Dance Club The forthcoming summer fashion show billed as DKF Runway 2017 is another brainchild of Fran Vasu and AJ Batac. The entrepreneur Vasu is the
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Remembering Filipino Backyard Games (part 1)
In the current age of Internet, social media, and modern gadgetry we couldn’t really blame the children of today for no longer interested nor engaged in playing so-called traditional Filipino backyard or playground games.
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Naka-attend Ka Na Ba ng Fashion Show?
(DKF Runway, June 16, District Stop) Winnipeg’s Filipino community is steeped with events that involve singing, dancing, and other performance and entertainment arts. However, seldom do we see a full-on fashion show being produced
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