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Mar 6, 2025 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | AV Kitching |Jen Zoratti |Ben Sigurdson |Eva Wasney |Conrad Sweatman
Winnipeg Rock and Gem ShowThursday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Red River Exhibition, 3977 Portage Ave. Admission $3Get your rocks on at this four-day event showcasing a vast collection of crystals, minerals and fossils. With 400 tables of vendors from across Canada, gem-lovers are sure to find their perfect stone. Treasure and trinkets abound, from amethyst, peridot and moldavite to moonstone, labradorite and tiger eyes. There’s more than just gem shopping on offer.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | Conrad Sweatman
Harry Stafylakis, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s composer-in-residence, sounds like a geologist when he describes the Winnipeg New Music Festival’s 34-year history. He thinks in terms of epochs and tectonic shifts. “It was music that was meant to be advanced and challenging in a way that we’d be familiar with from 20th-century modernism,” he says over the phone from New York about the festival’s early years.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | Conrad Sweatman
Album features takes on Winnipeg’s iconic songs by women and gender-diverse singers By: Conrad Sweatman Posted: 3:58 PM CST Friday, Jan.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | Conrad Sweatman
By: Conrad Sweatman Posted: 4:19 PM CST Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 Print Email Read Later Tomiwa Omolayo sees himself as a futurist.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | Conrad Sweatman
Storytellers compete for bragging rights and cash prizes in new story slam competition By: Conrad Sweatman Posted: 4:00 AM CST Monday, Jan.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | Conrad Sweatman
An internet meme showing an image of a skull with gaping sockets reads: “When a Protestant says something so Relicphobic, you gotta hit ’em with the St. Thomas Aquinas stare.”The meme seems to be an example of what’s been called Catholic Core, a gen Z and millennial trend.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | Conrad Sweatman
Sheena Rattai is slip slidin’ to the Rady Jewish Community Centre Tuesday for a Paul Simon tribute show. Getting to Know Paul Simon kicks off the annual Music ’N’ Maven concert and lecture series.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | Conrad Sweatman
Jaimie Isaac and Suzanne Morrissette’s work will soon grace the Nestaweya River Trail. They are the invited artists for this year’s Warming Huts competition, the flagship annual event that attracted 140 submissions from designers and architects across the world this year. Entitled Rosemary Skool, the pair’s hut, representing a birchbark basket, will take shape from snow and clay bricks sourced from the river.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | Denise Duguay |AV Kitching |Ben Sigurdson |Conrad Sweatman |Ben Waldman |Eva Wasney | +2 more
Any top 10 lists of television you read this year can’t possibly capture the depth and breadth of the options available for viewing, from sci-fi series to spy thrilers, from sitcoms to rom-coms, from docudramas to reality TV.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
winnipegfreepress.com | Conrad Sweatman
André Hall-Grusska’s hands tremble only a little as he draws and shades. The work is kaleidoscopic, the colourful chaos ordered through clean, meticulous lines. Last November, Riverview Health Centre, where the 62-year-old with Parkinson’s is a resident, exhibited his work for the hundreds of people who pass through the facility every day. “It was fantastic. I had about between 40 and 50 people show up (to the opening).
