All the City’s a Stage : White Rabbit Productions
All the City’s a Stage is a continuing look at local independent theatre companies in Winnipeg. This week: White Rabbit Productions “Traaa-di-tiooooon, tra-di-tion.” Musical theatre…
Winnipeg
From jail cell to the mayor’s chair
This year, Winnipeg’s labour community marked the 90th anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike. 2009 also marks the 75th anniversary of a less well-known, but…
The revolution will not be classicized
Set against an orange background, a wheel-less pink vintage Buick is represented in the painting “La Patera” (“The Raft,” 2002) by Armando Marino. The car…
Concubines and conquerors
Winnipeg author Margaret Sweatman’s book, The Players, is not something I would recommend for my mom to read. That having been said, I loved reading…
Come together, right now
It would be hard to imagine how a Stitch and Bitch event fits in with Stephen Harper’s description of artists as a bunch of snobs…
Jets grounded
The Jets are coming! The Jets are coming! Well, hold on there little Jimmy, not so fast. While there may indeed be a team moved…
Never give up
Allow me to commence this “comment” with characteristic self-absorption. Perhaps this is self-evident, but I am a man of eminence, of success. Indeed, my appetite…
Worst Halloween treat ever!
By far, the worst Halloween treat ever is walking out onto your front door on a chilling Halloween morning, only to discover that your front…
This must be the place
“Where is here?” To Winnipeggers it is a query that haunts our collective psyche. It is forever glued to the dashboard of our mind, taunting…
That girl is poison
The person responsible for changing stage sets must have gone home following this opening performance of Strong Poison, and taken a bath in Absorbine Jr.,…