Faith Enduring

A look at Manitoba’s Ukrainian community through their churches
The Forgotten Disease

The fight to eradicate tuberculosis is far from over.
Flu Fight

News about the world's battle against the H1N1 flu pandemic
Follow the Way!

Join United Way on its journey toward lasting change and better lives.

Poll

Winnipeg road closures

Check if your commute is affected
Editor's Bulletin

Sign up for daily bulletins
Blogs to Watch

We pick our favourite local blogs for you to follow
Breaking News Widget

Create and embed a Winnipeg Free Press breaking news widget on your site or blog

The Arts

Kalashnikov: 'happy man.'

The Russians, those great lovers of language, recently honoured one of their most famous citizens, a failed poet. PRINT | 21/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0

Superb drama explores the nature of guilt

The opening scene of the brilliant East of Berlin introduces an agitated man who seems petrified at the prospect of being interrogated. PRINT | 21/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
Showbits / Today's Lineup

Concerts
PRINT | 21/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
Aria-ha-ha

Stage director David Gately has spent so much time with The Barber of Seville, he jokes that the opera could drive him to self-injury with a straight razor. PRINT | 19/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
The revolution will be adorable

The Pinky Show, an anonymous artists' collective that deploys adorable cartoon cats to advance radical left ideas, is staging a campus occupation this month. The group's multimedia exhibition at the University of Winnipeg's Gallery 1C03 uses its academic setting to question the institutionalized values of higher education. And while the relationship between artists and patrons has always been tricky, The Pinky Show isn't biting the hand that feeds it. It's just nipping a bit with those darling little kitty teeth. PRINT | 19/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0
What's her line?

In the aftermath of her breakthrough season in 2007-08, Toronto playwright Hannah Moscovitch was deluged with play commissions from artistic directors anxious to get in on what might be the next big thing in Canadian theatre. PRINT | 19/11/2009 1:00 AM | 0