Brian Glow’s spooky, psychic illusions on live podcast

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This article was published 27/10/2010 (5427 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.

Here’s a stroke of Winnipeg luck! Because internationally renowned illusionist Brian Glow is home to do two corporate shows this Halloween week, he’s slipping in an appearance Friday evening at Aqua Books for a worldwide audio and video podcast of the Kelly Hughes Live! talk show held there. “I’m doing humorous psychic illusions, spooky and séance kind of tricks, with a bunch of audience participation,” says Glow who recently returned from Mexico’s Mayan Riviera. He’s on the bill Friday with comic Big Daddy Tazz and band Absent Sound of the eerie four-part harmonies. To get into the audience for the 7 p.m. triple-whammy, show up early at 274 Garry St.

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AGRICULTURE TYPES KNOW HOW TO PARTY DOWN: At most gala dinners in Winnipeg, one hour of cocktails and polite conversation is enough time before the fancy four-course dinner. But when The Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame (MAHF) and The Red River Exhibition Association (RREA) hosted their harvest gala dinner last week at the Viscount Gort, organizers had to allow TWO hours of noisy partying for this Ag cocktail reception. “It was loud — like a reunion!” chuckles Garth Rogerson, CEO of the RREA. “People knew each other through several organizations criss-crossing the whole province.” The dinner brought together past and present inductees of the Hall of Fame and The Red River Ex’s Farm Families of the Year going back to 1966, as well as current farm, industry and government officials.

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Curling expert Resby Coutts of radio show RockTalk, MCed the event, and opening speakers included Bob Roehle, prez of both RREA and Hall of Fame and Agriculture Minister Stan Struthers. Guest speaker was Jerry Gray, dean emeritus and senior scholar at the I.H. Asper School of Business, speaking on “social reciprocity” (think business karma). Dignitaries included Cam Brown, an agricultural consultant, inducted into the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame in July, Michael Trevan, U of M’s dean of agriculture; Earl Geddes, executive director of the Canadian International Grains Institute; Bill Toews, a Canadian Wheat Board director; Ian Wishart, past president of Keystone Agricultural Producers; Curtis Evenson, of the Manitoba Association of Agricultural Societies; John Morriss and Laura Rance of the Manitoba Co-operator and Dale Riddell of Red River Co-op, who provided a $1,000 scholarship. “The evening was a great success and we achieved our goal of creating an endowed scholarship for a Manitoba student in the field of agriculture.” says Linda Neyedly, RREA communications.

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Melanie Regnier, the raven-haired owner of Hungover Empire at 173 Osborne, says Winnipeggers have not been buying up her Halloween costumes half as fast as clothes that express a darker side of themselves.

“We sell the kind of stuff The Crypt used to sell,” says the 31-year-old former bartender, who works with Hella Sonnenschein and international alternative model Joan V. She adds they’re selling a lot of lace-up corsettes, spike collars and purses with Frankenstein heads —- popular in the punk and metal community. That gang is going to Hell Night at Ozzie’s on Saturday, Oct. 30. Regnier says they’ll be joined by lots of newbies. “People who aren’t comfortable dressing in this stuff the rest of the year will come out in their alter egos.”

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