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An Evening of Sherlock Holmes

• Dalnavert Museum and Visitor’s Centre, 61 Carlton St.
• Friday, Jan. 16 and Friday, Jan. 23, 6:30 p.m.
• Tickets $50 plus fees available online

Fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous fictional sleuth have two chances this month to enjoy a reading of the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Speckled Band in a period-appropriate venue — Dalnavert Museum and Visitor’s Centre.

An Evening of Sherlock Holmes takes place on two consecutive Fridays — tomorrow and Jan. 23 — with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. and the reading beginning in the parlour at 7. Tickets are $50 plus fees and include a Holmes-inspired signature cocktail or mocktail during intermission. For more information and to get tickets, it’s elementary, my dear Watson — click here.

— Ben Sigurdson

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Ten Perspectives

• 210 Gallery, 210 Princess St.
• Opening reception Saturday, 2-4 p.m.
• Exhibition runs until Feb. 21

Until earlier this week, this exhibition of rural and northern Manitoban artists was called Nine Perspectives. With the addition of Beausejour’s Denise Roy, the lucky number is 10. Roy, Glenda Cairns Poirier, Joy Billings, Laura Bryson, Lee Beaton, Marin Curtis, Mary Louise Chown, Mike Davids, Noelle Drimmie and Sandy Proulx developed the works on view through guided webinars, group critique sessions and mentorship with former Cre8ery gallerist Jordan Miller.

Over the course of six months, the artists worked together with Miller in areas such as audience development, branding, pricing, presentation and developing written materials.

— Ben Waldman

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Blue Sunday: An Improv Show to Fight the Darkness

• Gas Station Arts Centre, 445 River Ave.
• Sunday, 7 p.m.
• Tickets are $14-$22, available online

Blue Monday, or the third Monday in January, is said to be the most depressing day of the year. It’s cold, it’s dark, your resolutions have failed, you’re in debt and you used up all your serotonin in December.

Luckily, the Winnipeg Improv Festival has the antidote: Blue Sunday.

“Blue Monday was made up as a marketing campaign for a travel company, which I respect,” Stephen Sim, artistic director of the Winnipeg Improv Festival, says in a media release. “Blue Sunday is also made up, and we will make up the show, too.”

The first half will feature the Short Form Game ensemble, directed and workshopped by Caity Curtis and Jesse Bergen. And if one of your new year’s resolution was to say “yes and” to new challenges, you will also have the chance to do some improv with Sim in the second half if you throw your name in the hat during intermission.

— Jen Zoratti

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Public Domain’s Chess Club

• Public Domain, 633 Portage Ave.
• Tuesdays, 8 p.m.
• Free

Public Domain is much more than a weekend venue and bar.

It’s a weekday community centre for people out past their bedtime — with its weekly karaoke, video games, DJs and the like, and revolving cast of colourful, friendly regulars.

If you’re looking for a more sober-minded activity, try its Tuesday chess club. Public Domain supplies some chess sets, though you’re encouraged to bring your own, and they keep the boom-bap hip hop flowing. Don’t be surprised if you hear them playing Wu Tang Clan, the East Coast supergroup known for their tongue in cheek references to chess.

Stay on guard for certain chess fanatics, who may checkmate you when you’re mellowing out on the wine on special.

— Conrad Sweatman

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Fried Chicken Fest

• Various locations
• To Jan. 24
• Click here for more information

Fried Chicken Fest is “where your (New Year’s) resolutions go to die,” according to the event’s tagline.

The annual January food festival is a celebration of deep-fried poultry — served between burger buns, piled high atop rice and folded into wraps.

Inventive fried chicken dishes can be found at restaurants across the city for the next nine days.

A sample of this year’s flock includes the Nothing Else Batters, a buttermilk-marinated burger from Rae’s Bistro (9-925 Headmaster Row); the Plum Chicken and Mash Bowl, kaarage chicken on a bed of mashed potatoes from Block and Blade Restaurant (50 Sage Creek Blvd.); and the Bistro Bon Bon, three Frenched chicken drumsticks lollipops from Bull & Filly (1763 Henderson Hwy.).

The full list of participants is rolling out on the event’s Facebook page (@friedchickenfestwpg) and diners can vote for their favourite meal on the festival website.

— Eva Wasney

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