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First a wedding, then the spiritual guidance party
Ed Ackerman: novel ideas
Tifraoui, Gagne, Berard: sleuths
Kristen Andrews: marching orders
Legendary music guy Steve Thompson of Hungry I Agency fame, is getting married Saturday in old rocker fashion. The well-known eccentric is inviting all his friends and former business associates to join in the... "spiritual guidance party."
That's a multi-band post-ceremony social at the Pyramid Cabaret for "Spiritual" and his darling bride, Anne. Performers include The Choir Boys/Howling Now, Highway 59 and the Chocolate Bunnies From Hell who are reuniting for the night. The place should be packed to the rafters with the crowd from the music scene in the 'Peg from the '80s and '90s. Tickets at the door are $20.
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MARATHON NOVEL WRITER FOR MAYOR? Yours truly ran into mayoral candidate and filmmaker Ed Ackerman on his way down McDermot Avenue toting a draft of his Labour Day weekend 3-Day Novel contest manuscript. Ackerman's novel is called Prisoners of Winnipeg (P.O.W.) and he says his story reveals "all the reasons he needs to run for mayor of this city." How does his writing blitz work? Contenders hole up in a place of their own choosing for the three-day marathon weekend and try to write a publishable short novel in that time. It's done largely on the honour system because it's too hard to police. Yikes.
Interested writers can get on the mailing list for the next contest online (at www.@3daynovel.com).
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BURNING HOT: The Flaming Trolleys -- that radical marching band of musicians who played at the opening of Central Park, will be raising eyebrows again tomorrow at 4 p.m. at the Sherbrook Street Festival between Wolseley and Westminster avenues. "A call's gone out for new members recently and they're all over the map," said a musician, who's secretly toying with joining. Yours truly checked out this week's practice on the wide sidewalk in front of organizer/drummer Kristen Andrews' Ragpickers store on McDermot to see who showed.
Andrews, who used to play in band Urban Guerillas, says the Flaming Trolleys started in 2007 when they got a big shipment of marching band uniforms at Ragpickers and she couldn't let a fun opportunity like that go to waste. The band is named after the torched trolley in the 1919 General Strike. The night was warm and the Exchange District dark, with historic buildings everywhere, and it felt just like a musical side street in Havana.
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PRAIRIE DOG SLEUTHS: So why was the porter hovering in Car 104 on the recent Murder Express run on the Prairie Dog Central? Aha! An intriguing trio of female "sleuths" was trying to solve the murder in two forms of French and they had many questions. Shades of Hercule Poirot! Parisian "detective" Jeannine Tifraoui, speaks very little English so her sidekicks Irene Gagne from Winnipeg and Germaine Berard of St. Pierre were busy translating all the English actors' lines into French to deduce who knocked off the victim. Take a worldy Parisian's word for it -- our Prairie Dog Central is "tres agréable," and a world-class tourist attraction.
Got tips, events, sightings, unusual things going on? Email maureen.scurfield@winnipegfreepress.com or send mail to The Insider c/o the Winnipeg Free Press at 1355 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, R2X 3B6
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 10, 2010 B1
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