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BRAD OSWALD / TV
Wandering comic seeks refined laughs in Ontario
The road has taken Jonny Harris to some out-of-the-way places during the first season of his brilliantly Canadian series Still Standing, in which he visits struggling small towns, meets the people and hears their stories, and then delivers a custom-made comedy show to the locals. In the latest instalment (Tuesday, Aug. 11, at 9:30 p.m., CBC), Harris aims to lubricate the laugh apparatus in the birthplace of Canada’s modern petroleum industry — Oil Springs, Ont.
ALAN SMALL / MUSIC
The King is dead… long live the King
Elvis Presley died on Aug. 16, 1977, but Gimli is getting a head start on the reminiscences this weekend with the 2015 Manitoba Elvis Festival at the Gimli Rec Centre. Daylin James headlines Saturday, Aug. 8, at 6 p.m. and Corny Rempel — who just took home first prize in the Inspirational category from the Collingwood Elvis Festival in Ontario — leads the Elvii on Sunday, Aug. 9 at 2 p.m. The two show their versatility on Friday, Aug. 7 at 7 p.m., when Rempel performs as Johnny Cash and James unveils his Tom Jones impersonation.
RANDALL KING / MOVIES
Fighting for freedom, sans aliens
“We are fighting for our right to live. To exist.” That line of dialogue comes from director Roland Emmerich’s 1996 monster hit Independence Day in President Bill Pullman’s stirring pre-alien-battle address to the troops. But it could just as easily come from Emmerich’s new film Stonewall, opening Sept. 25. It’s a dramatization of New York City’s 1969 Stonewall riots, credited as the birth of the modern gay-rights movement. The trailer is here: http://wfp.to/xlO.
BEN MacPHEE-SIGURDSON / WINE
Mission Hill top drop at national wine awards
For the fourth time in the competition’s 15-year history, West Kelowna-based Mission Hill Family Estate has nabbed the honour of Canada’s top winery at WineAlign’s National Wine Awards of Canada (formerly Wine Access magazine’s Canadian Wine Awards). More than 400 wines from 200-plus wineries were entered in the competition, which were tasted blind, scored and awarded medals (or not). Mission Hill earned one platinum, four gold, six silver and 10 bronze medals at the competition. Rounding out the top five were B.C.’s Arrowleaf Cellars and Road 13 Vineyards, as well as Ontario’s Trius and Thirty Bench wineries.