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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.
