Jen Zoratti

Winnipeg

Columnist and Arts Writer at Winnipeg Free Press

Free Press columnist/arts writer @WinnipegNews. Author of NEXT, a weekly newsletter looking at a post-pandemic future. [email protected]

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Opinion: Rocket joyride astronomical vanity trip

1 week ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

By: Jen Zoratti Posted: 3:57 PM CDT Thursday, Apr. 17, 2025 Earlier this week, journalist, aviation businesswoman, philanthropist and children’s book author Lauren Sánchez took a little joyride to space in a rocket owned by her fiancé, Jeff Bezos, and his private spaceflight startup Blue Origin.
Winnipeg to consider new public art funding proposal

1 week ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

By: Jen Zoratti Posted: 2:25 PM CDT Tuesday, Apr.
Opinion: Missing a fictionalized version of America

1 week ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

By: Jen Zoratti Posted: 2:00 AM CDT Saturday, Apr. 12, 2025 When I went to New York City for the first time in 2019, I visited a certain apartment block on the corner of Bedford and Grove in the West Village.
Winnipeg barber takes clippers to war-torn Ukraine in documentary

1 week ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

When people sit down in the barber chair, they are often seeking out more than a haircut. The barbershop is a site of community, a “third place” that isn’t home or work. For some, the barber chair is a confession booth. For others, a therapist’s couch. “There’s a lot of human connection that happens in a barbershop,” says Winnipeg barber Jeremy Regan, 51, founder of the Broadway shop Hunter and Gunn.
Winnipeg-born OB/GYN Jen Gunter moving back to Canada after ‘rank misogyny’ drives devolution of women’s rights

2 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

In 1995, Dr. Jen Gunter arrived in Kansas. The Winnipeg-born-and-raised gynecologist was fresh out of her OB/GYN training at the University of Western Ontario, having completed medical school at the University of Manitoba, and landing in the Midwest was like a reverse Wizard of Oz.“I was fully unprepared for the culture shock of moving to the United States,” says Gunter, now 58, over the phone from her home in San Francisco.
Opinion: Mind your Ps and Qs and who’s who in group chats

3 weeks ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

By: Jen Zoratti Posted: 2:02 AM CDT Saturday, Mar. 29, 2025 Earlier this week, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, made the incendiary revelation that the Trump administration accidentally texted him its war plans.
Opinion: Lasting and lagging legacies of lockdown

1 month ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

By: Jen Zoratti Posted: 2:02 AM CDT Saturday, Mar. 15, 2025 Print Email Read Later Remember when we used to say “nature is healing”?
Microbial legacy of Group of Seven

1 month ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

The landscape painters Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven were concerned with subjects grand in scale. Towering stands of trees, vast shimmering lakes, snow-capped mountains. Canada itself. Toronto interdisciplinary artist Jon Sasaki is much more concerned with the micro landscapes we don’t see.
Oldest-school influencer and Free Press restaurant critic helped form and inform Winnipeg’s food scene

1 month ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

A Marion Warhaft review could make or break a restaurant. The famed (and sometimes feared) Free Press restaurant critic was known for her smart, pull-no-punches reviews, which she would do entirely incognito. Every Friday for decades, Warhaft’s Dining Out column was a must-read by diners and restaurateurs alike. A pan from Warhaft could take a bite out of business. As for a rave? Well, you had better secure your reservations quickly.
Opinion: When elbows come down, let’s lean on each other

1 month ago | winnipegfreepress.com | Jen Zoratti

By: Jen Zoratti Posted: 2:03 AM CST Saturday, Mar. 8, 2025 I’m going to tell you something embarrassing. Lean in closer. Closer still. I gotta whisper because it is humiliating.