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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.
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: For years I had a big crush on my older sister’s hot-looking best friend who was often over at our house. My sister found out about my crush and told me, “I’ll kill you, if you go after my friend!” I was crushed at the time, and kept my distance, although I still had erotic dreams about that girl a lot.
This fall my sister is going to university out of province, and her friend is still here in Winnipeg, going to the same college as I am. I ran into her recently at a mall. She looked me up and down and said, “Wow!” Was she teasing me like a little boy or was she actually flirting with me now my sister’s out of the way?
More importantly, do I need my sister’s permission to ask out this friend of hers now she lives in Ontario? Please help!
Carol Sanders5 minute readYesterday at 6:38 PM CDT
Manitoba Hydro Place beefed up its security after an employee was assaulted in the main-floor gallery while leaving work in January leading the Crown corporation to close the building to the public for several weeks while it hired and trained institutional safety officers.
Georgia Nicols4 minute readYesterday at 2:00 AM CDT
MOON ALERT: Caution. Avoid shopping (except food and gas) and important decisions from 3 a.m. until 10:55 p.m. After that, the moon moves from Aquarius into Pisces.
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
There’s a moon alert all day so restrict spending to food and gas, and postpone important decisions. However, you are the artisan of the zodiac, and a moon alert is an excellent time for socializing and making art.
Chris Kitching6 minute readUpdated: Yesterday at 5:47 PM CDT
Health Canada has suspended all plasma collection at Grifols’ Taylor Avenue facility while the private company continues to face scrutiny after two people died following donations at its Winnipeg clinics.
The suspension began Wednesday, although Grifols paused plasma collection in Canada on Aug. 14, two days after the federal department gave the Taylor Avenue site a non-compliant rating.
“Health Canada issued the suspension because Grifols had not effectively implemented some corrective and preventive actions and, overall, it failed to demonstrate that the Taylor Avenue site has implemented an effective quality management system,” the department said in a statement.
The penalty was first proposed Aug. 13. The site’s operating licence was partially suspended, Grifols said in a statement.
Maggie Macintosh5 minute readYesterday at 5:43 PM CDT
The overseas arrest of a disgraced former law dean who defrauded the University of Manitoba out of more than $600,000 is being met both with relief and renewed frustration in the local legal community.
