It’s official, Winnipeg has been selected to host the 2027 Juno Awards.
I talked to The National's Matt Berninger (who plays a solo show in Winnipeg at the Burt on Sunday) about writin' on baseballs, playing covers and other ways to get your brain to not walk in the same footsteps: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Oh no the notepad at the gig where did Chandler get this footage of me
The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."
“Tim Chalamet can stick it, brother!”
“No one cares. Oh, really? Then why is there — and this is real — a full, multi-chapter work of Heated Rivalry fanfic set at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet during Nutcracker season, written by someone who isn’t even from here?“ my column from Saturday: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Interesting to find that the subject of turbulence has been featured in the @newyorker.com
Why Your Next Flight Is Likelier to Hit Turbulence www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Heat ye, hear ye, the Folk Fest lineup is here. Lucy Dacus, Father John Misty, Of Monsters and Men, Jesse Welles, Wolf Parade and more.
Yours too!
Thank you!
I've written about this and am gonna quote myself, but I fear all these AI interventions just keep people in a state of bargaining instead of allowing them to get to acceptance. And acceptance isn't "cured" either; it's learning to live with that ache.
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"For a bunch of gold-medalists, the U.S. men’s hockey team sure acted like a bunch of losers."
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“He sounded like a little boy apologizing for the fact his mom is making him invite the girls to his McDonald’s PlayPlace birthday party. He might as well have added “Ew, cooties!”“ Today’s column: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Right!? So good.
Eat a ftira! It’s a UNESCO-designated sandwich!
I was there in November and LOVED it — have a great time!
ahh thank you!
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s forthcoming 2026/27 season will mark the start of a new chapter for the company: it’s the first to be entirely programmed by newly minted artistic director Christopher Stowell.
Listen, I think if more 40-year-old columnists at middle-market newspapers wrote about this we could put a stop to it entirely. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
It was in today's!
Ahead of Valentine’s Day, I asked U of M ethics guy Neil McArthur about who is using romantic AI chatbots (it’s maybe not who you think), why they’re using them (it’s not just loneliness) and if what people are feeling for their chatbots is actually love (it’s complicated).
It is, and I think it was actually set in 2025!
Just when you think things are bad, a story like this comes along. Great work, @evawasney.bsky.social !
I'm also resharing this. Time for an I, Tonya rewatch! Also from 2018: on Harding, the particular millennial nostalgia for figure skating, and who gets to be America's Sweetheart. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
From 2018: that iconic photo of Tonya Harding with her leg up on the boards at the 1994 Olympics? It was taken by a Freep photog! The story of the shot: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Carrie Allison's we tend to care, on view now at Urban Shaman and WAG-Qaumajuq, examines the concept of the lawn, and the the colonial ideas about value, virtue, class and wealth it upholds. See her in an artist talk tonight as part of WAG Wednesdays!
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