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This article was published 06/10/2016 (3475 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
RANDALL KING / COMEDY
Home again, home again, giggly gig
Five years ago, after amassing credits on locally shot films such as New in Town and Wild Cherry, actor Ben Beauchemin moved from Winnipeg to Toronto to pursue a career as a comedian. He still acts (Kim’s Convenience) but he also made that comedy dream come true, and he makes a triumphant return performing standup for the first time in his home town at Wee Johnny’s Pub, 177 McDermot Ave., on Saturday, Oct. 8, at 9 p.m. on a bill with local improv team Outside Joke. Tickets are $10 in advance at http://brownpapertickets.com/event/2598105 or $15 at the door.JILL WILSON / MUSIC
The Kid stays in the picture
Electronic act AudioOpera (a.k.a. local producer Graeme Barrett) has just released a new video for Forever, a darkly haunting, trippy track with icy falsetto vocals. The two-minute clip, directed by Winnipeg’s Avery Stedman, is unsettling, featuring The Kids in the Hall’s Kevin McDonald in an unvarnished performance as a sad man who… well, see for yourself at: wfp.to/forever. A full-length album, Flying From the River, is due out soon on Noise Collector records.BEN MacPHEE-SIGURDSON / WINE
B.C. wine fit for royalty
During their recent weeklong visit to Canada, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge made a stop at Mission Hill Family Estate in British Columbia, where they toured the winery, had a go at picking some grapes and were fed by some of B.C.’s top chefs. William and Kate were served two of Mission Hill’s top wines, reports Decanter magazine — the 2012 Oculus, a Bordeaux-style red blend, and the 2012 Perpetua Chardonnay. Both wines are listed on the Manitoba Liquor Marts website — the former is $80, while the latter is a paltry $40.06 — but appear to be out of stock. Expect them to move quickly if they find their way back on to store shelves.BRAD OSWALD / TV
Doc pays tribute to hockey’s tough-guy class
One needn’t look any further than the title to know where this film stands on the issue of fighting in hockey: Ice Guardians. Not Ice Goons. This new documentary, which has its television première on Saturday, Oct. 8, on Super Channel (check listings for time), takes an in-depth look at the role of the enforcer in professional hockey and tells the story of the fights from the perspective of the men who’ve done the fighting. More than a dozen NHL tough guys from the recent and somewhat distant past — Rob Ray, Dave Semenko, Dave Schultz, George Parros, Colton Orr, Kelly Chase, Clark Gillies, Joe Kocur and many more — explain how and why they fought their way to the big leagues. The case for fighting is also bolstered by interviews with hockey such NHL superstars as Brett Hull, Jarome Iginla and Chris Chelios, who state emphatically that they could not have succeeded at the level they did without an enforcer or two on the bench.
