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BRAD OSWALD / TV
Blades battles on
Reality TV seldom has to contend with actual, grim reality, but CBC’s competition series Battle of the Blades was forced to do just that after the sudden death/apparent suicide of retired NHLer and third-season contestant Wade Belak. The network and the show’s producers have decided to continue as planned (“We believe he would want us to move ahead,” CBC programming head Kirstine Stewart said in a network release); the series première (Sunday on CBC), titled Game On, will include an extended tribute to Belak.
RANDALL KING / MOVIES
Can you feel the 3D tonight?
The Lion King is the most Shakespearean of Disney musicals. It’s a little bit Hamlet (with the ghost of Simba’s father exhorting him to do the right thing by dealing with his treacherous uncle) and a whole lot Henry IV. (Think of Timon and Pumbaa as Falstaff.) The 3D version opening at Polo Park and St. Vital tomorrow just runs for two weeks in advance of a 3D DVD release in October.
ALISON MAYES / ARTS
This calls for a Cuba Libre
Visions of Cuba by three established painters from that island country are on view until Oct. 8 in the show The Pleasure of Getting Lost at the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery on the Canadian Mennonite University campus. Tonight from 7:30 to 9 p.m., the public can meet two of the artists, Jairo Alfonso and Francisco Núñez, and hear them give a translated artists’ talk about their lives and work.
Aaron Peters (centre) looks at local music in his new documentary.
ROB WILLIAMS / MUSIC
Winnipeg rock goes big
Veteran Winnipeg musician Aaron Peters has moved into the director’s chair with his first feature-length documentary, Aaron Peters Presents Winnipeg Rock Part One, featuring 12 different local bands, including High Class Low Lifes, Why, Tinnitus, Trouser Mouth and Five Hundred Pound Furnace, performing and talking about their adventures in the business. The film will be screened tonight for the public at the IMAX Theatre in Portage Place for the last time before the footage and masters are donated to the groups in the movie. Tickets are $15. The screening begins at 9:30. Part Two is already in the works.
CHRIS SMITH / JAZZ
Silver lining
Horace Silver, a co-founder of the Jazz Messengers, helped develop the enduring hard bop style of jazz and composed lasting songs such as Song for My Father and Nica’s Dream. You’ve heard his music whether you know it or not. Trumpeter Derrick Gardner and saxophonist Don Braden pay tribute to that music as the Izzy Asper Jazz Performances season opens with three blues-drenched concerts this weekend at the Berney Theatre: Saturday, 8 p.m., and Sunday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets, $36, are available by calling 477-7534.
Maureen Scurfield4 minute readYesterday at 2:00 AM CDT
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My husband, who earns a hefty income, stayed in the city most of the summer working, except for a few long weekends with the kids and me at the cottage. He has giant work projects that need daily tending.
I work hard, too, with our four kids, two dogs and a cat. But I have to tell you I got a shock last week after coming home to organize my family team for a thorough cleaning of our three-storey home.
You’ll never guess what they found up in the attic — hidden boxes of sexy women’s lingerie that all looks brand-new.
I’ve kept my mouth shut so far, but my mind is spinning.
Taylor Allen7 minute readUpdated: Yesterday at 11:45 PM CDT
In theory, Bryce Perkins has a simple job.
When it’s third and short, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers trot out the short-yardage quarterback, and all he has to do is plunge forward for a yard or two to make everyone on his sideline happy.
But on Friday night against the visiting Toronto Argonauts, he went above and beyond his job description.
The Bombers, down 24-21 with six minutes left, faced a third-and-one from their own end when Perkins found a hole and burst through it for a 76-yard touchdown to put the home team in front 28-24 late.
Flammable gas is believed to be the cause of a 2024 house explosion in Transcona that damaged neighbouring homes and displaced residents.
“As a result of the investigation and upon Crown review, the explosion is believed to be an isolated incident,” Winnipeg Police Service Const. Dani McKinnon said in an email Friday afternoon.
“There are no public safety concerns connected to this incident, and no criminal charges have been laid.”
The sudden blast happened in a bungalow on Camrose Bay on June 26, 2024. It levelled the home and caused significant damage to 22 other houses. At the time, it was described as “catastrophic” by the fire chief at the scene.
