Ben Sigurdson

Journeyman actor chronicles long rise to stardom in charming memoir Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

I adored Jeff Hiller's new memoir, Actress of a Certain Age. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Watch Radiohead Perform In Rainbows & The King of Limbs in Intimate Live Settings, with No Host or Audience LP, A Moon Shaped Pool “without doing a single interview and it still topped the charts all over the world,” Rolling Stone writes,” even if Drake and Beyonce kept them stuck at Number Three in America...

Watch Radiohead Perform In Rainbows & The King of Limbs in Intimate Live Settings, with No Host or Audience

Great responses here

YouTube video by RHINO Starship - We Built This City (Official Music Video) [HD]

We Built This City >>>>> Demolition Man. (The former actually kinda rules, so call me an insurance jingle producer if you must.) MARCONI PLAYS THE MAMBA BART: youtu.be/K1b8AhIsSYQ?...

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These beautiful new editions are now on our shelves (and on display everywhere in store)!

Kanata Classics book series explores Truth and Reconciliation 10 years after the report was released A new series of books from publisher McClelland & Stewart that contemplates life in Canada coincides with the 10th anniversary of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

For today's @winnipegfreepress.com I chatted with publisher Stephanie Sinclair and author Jordan Abel (Nishga) about the new Kanata Classics line of books from McClelland & Stewart: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Wow guy has a crazy long name

YouTube video by Chuck Mangione Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good (Nana's Journey Into Song, March 8th, 1979)

I've had Feels So Good on repeat in my head since hearing Chuck Mangione died yesterday. (Not a complaint... yet.)
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Watch the First Trailer for New Movie Spinal Tap II: The End Continues The highly anticipated mockumentary sequel reunites Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer with director Rob Reiner… and some very special guests

The first trailer for Spinal Tap II: The End Continues is here. Watch it ⬇️

RIP Chuck Mangione

When I'm in the wine aisle at the supermarket I give the impression to others around me I'm taking my time to consider what to buy based on the particular wine's country/grape etc but all I'm really doing is finding the cheapest bottle with with the nicest looking label.

Oddly awkward: "...after only being 32 years old"

Screen cap of how many times I had to call frigging Driver Z to register my kid successfully. You'd think it was the '80s and I was trying to get tickets to see Bon Jovi at the Winnipeg Arena or something

Wow, actually got my kid into Driver Z by phone. I only had to call 133 times (and we had another phone going as well).

😬 I only gave two 4.5s, so maybe I'll cautiously assume it wasn't me? Although one of the two I know most people REALLY did not like so... 🤷

YouTube video by Letterman CBS: The Tiffany Network | David Letterman

Letterman's YT page just dropped a 20 minute supercut of him trashing CBS: The Tiffany Network

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I imagine (we never got it 🤷🏼‍♂️)

Screen capture of the Environment Canada website saying the current conditions in Winnipeg is "funnel cloud"

I mean... is this bad?

Yeah the Fakespeare: Macbeth guy was joking about how many Shakespeare and/or Bard-adjacent shows are at the fringe this year.

I just saw Fakespeare: Macbeth which was fab; it was listed as 45 minutes and came in just over 30! Also Inescapable (feat. Martin Dockery and Jon Paterson) listed as 60 minutes but only 45. It absolutely killed

Two more, both feat. Jon Paterson: Inescapable (my only five-star pick, also feat. Martin Dockery) and Iago vs. Hamlet. Also just saw Fakespeare: Macbeth which was so good

Simon Pegg talking about #BlueVelvet in the Criterion Closet.
#DavidLynch

Gary Shteyngart’s precocious protagonist in Vera, or Faith navigates fraught family dynamics — and the rise of American authoritarianism

In between reviewing 13(!) fringe festival plays in four days, I found time to review @shteyngart.bsky.social's excellent new novel Vera, or Faith for @winnipegfreepress.com: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

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Five stars!

I guess that should have read "loudly opening a candy wrapper." I can neither confirm nor deny the actual candy was loud.

Reviewed my first two Fringe shows last night (both good!). First beefs: 1) Someone in the crowd near me opening a loud candy during a quiet monologue. 2) During said monologues, someone else near me vocally affirming with an audible "mmmm" every 2-3 lines.

:) Fool’s Gambit (feat James & Jamesy, which I saw tonight and only runs until Sunday) was loads of physical improv fun. At PTE

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
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but ExPOsUrE...

Got some samps from Quails’ Gate and Blasted Church today — wines mainly made from Oregon/Washington State grapes in the Okanagan Valley (like many others in the area are doing) in light of the consecutive brutal winters they had there in 2023 and 2024.