http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/m_walker Most recent (7 days) columns en-gb Wed, 22 May 2013 12:34:40 CDT The writing was on the wall in 2011, or at least on the tablet. After more than a decade of sputtering starts, this was the year that e-reading took the writing and publishing world by storm. Traditionalists shouldn't get their shirts in a knot. Old reliable books on paper, of the sort printed... Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:00:03 CST It astonishes me to say this. I plan to spend Sunday afternoon watching a hockey game on TV. Well, at least the first period of you know which game. We'll see if it holds my attention. The truth is that NHL hockey bores me stiff, and I probably have not watched more than five minutes of a game Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:16:45 CDT CANADA'S History Society has appointed a new editor for its Winnipeg-based national children's history magazine, Kayak. Nancy Payne officially took over the reins on Monday, said magazine publisher Deborah Morrison. Payne replaces Jill Foran, who has moved to an editorial post with Reader's Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:17:01 CST A Winnipeg playwright and actor suffering from multiple sclerosis is showing signs of vast improvement following having so-called liberation treatment in Costa Rica last week. Debbie Patterson posted a video of herself Jan. 14 on Facebook showing her walking unaided back and forth in a room. In Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:16:42 CST It may fall short of being the good-news story of the year, but I am happy to report the satisfactory (and personally satisfying) resolution of an outrage that has caused me no end of sleepless nights since 2004. I refer, of course, to Red River College's notorious "Grammargate" scandal. This Fri, 7 Jan 2011 03:18:33 CST In a nondescript office tucked behind the bowling alley on Academy Road, Winnipeg talent buyer Howard Pitch is on the phone with wild-man rocker Vince Neil's New York agent. Pitch is putting the finishing touches on a deal that will see the Motley Crue lead singer do a handful of solo casino Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:31:20 CDT TORONTO -- Winnipegger David Bergen will have a shot at winning a second Scotiabank Giller Prize next month. Bergen's sixth novel, The Matter With Morris (Phyllis Bruce Books/HarperCollins), was shortlisted for the $50,000 award Tuesday morning. It's about a middle-aged newspaper columnist who Wed, 6 Oct 2010 08:22:18 CDT The literary horses are hitting the home stretch in this year's On the Same Page reading promotion. The winner among the four Manitoba books in the running won't be announced until sometime in October, but their authors will be hustling up votes beginning today at a series of group Thu, 9 Sep 2010 12:55:27 CDT It has been many years, mercifully, since I have needed to patronize the Manitoba Children's Museum. Still, it was with some nostalgia that I read my colleague Alison Mayes' report the other day about the $10-million reno The Forks institution is undertaking. Personally, I have fonder memories Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:53:11 CDT What a thrill to read earlier this week that the great Baltimore filmmaker John Waters is coming to Winnipeg in November to speak. He's being brought here as a guest of the Cultural Capital of Canada program to participate in a symposium called My City's Still Breathing. My fascination with Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:25:21 CDT