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ALISON MAYES / ARTS
Date night with Mr. Benedetto
Could there be a more romantic evening than a concert by the incomparable Tony Bennett? The iconic interpreter of the Great American Songbook returns to the Centennial Concert Hall on Aug 22. Eternally hip at age 86, the Italian-American legend is sure to deliver a classy evening of favourites like Maybe This Time, The Way You Look Tonight and Fly Me to the Moon. Tickets are still available at Ticketmaster.
BRAD OSWALD / TV
Fly high, drive fast -- and understand how it's done
There have been a number of how'd-they-do-that? TV efforts over the years, but few have shown viewers the inner workings of complex and fascinating events and entities as well as Discovery's Canadian-made Nerve Center. The sharply insightful series opens its second season (Sunday at 7 p.m.) with a double-header première that examines Cirque du soleil's tech-heavy KÄ spectacle in Las Vegas and then makes a pit stop at an IndyCar Championship race.
MORLEY WALKER / PUBLISHING
The new model can pay off
Toronto journalist Paula Todd has given entrepreneurial authors a boost of confidence. The Toronto Star reported last weekend that Todd's self-published 46-page e-book Finding Karla, about her tracking down serial killer Karla Homolka to her Caribbean island home, has sold 60-70,000 copies at $3 a crack. Even after her considerable expenses (travel, editing, paying Kobo and Kindle, etc.), Todd has still earned a lot more than she would have had she sold the story to a top-end Canadian magazine.
KEVIN PROKOSH / THEATRE
Canada's biggest fringe getting bigger
The Edmonton Fringe Festival opens today with 215 shows in 11 official venues and 41 BYOVs -- much larger than the record size of the Winnipeg edition, which featured 172 productions in 11 venues and 20 BYOVs. Hard to see how Winnipeg will ever be able to surpass Edmonton in ticket sales with that kind of disparity. The upside for Winnipeg fringe-goers is that the top ticket is $10, compared with Edmonton's $15 ($12.50 ticket maximum plus an additional $2.50 goes to the fringe organization itself).
JILL WILSON / TV
Don't ditch that burner
HBO's The Wire was known for its gritty realism, and that even extended to the phone numbers used on the show -- no phony 555 prefix here. On one episode, drug kingpin Marlo Stansfield gives the Baltimore number 410-915-0909 to his lawyer. Justin Newman, who works for the Baltimore-Washington Telephone Company, noticed it was a number that is allocated to BWTel and linked it to a recording of Stansfield's most memorable lines. He provides the details on his website: http://bit.ly/NyMM8q
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 16, 2012 E2
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