Ben Waldman

6 days ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Ben Waldman

In 2017, while visiting New York City, Winnipeg retailer Lauren Wittmann spotted a teensy-tiny baby in a gift shop window and asked, “How much?”“I had no idea what a Sonny Angel was,” says Wittmann, who, with her mother Trish, co-owns Riley Grae, one of the city’s leading purveyors of cuteness and kitsch since opening on Corydon Avenue in 2019.

2 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Ben Waldman

To find tranquility in an overstimulating world, Wren Brian often uses theatre as a temporary escape into self-reflection. She’s been doing it professionally since 2009, but personally speaking? The admittedly introverted playwright has drifted off into daydreams for as long as she could string together a sentence or a friendship bracelet. “I went off and played by myself.

2 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Ben Waldman

Misogyny is a hateful weapon in Dogfight, a production being staged by Dry Cold Productions through Sunday that features music from Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the team that scored hits with La La Land and Dear Evan Hansen. Set on the eve of the assassination of U.S president John F. Kennedy, Dogfight — with a book by Peter Duchan, based on the 1991 film of the same name — follows a group of U.S. marines waiting to go to Vietnam.

2 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Ben Waldman

When civil war broke out in his native Syria, it wasn’t often that Majd Sukar left his Aleppo apartment. In the fall of 2010, he had moved to the city from a small village called Homs, intending to lead the standard life of a university music student. Sukar was prepared for obsessive solo practice, but not like this. “I had six months of peace in Aleppo, then the whole country went to protest on the 15th of March. By the end of that year, the country was falling apart,” says Sukar, 33.

2 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Eva Wasney |Ben Waldman

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