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Eva Wasney 1 minute read Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025

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Georgia Nicols 4 minute read Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025

MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The moon is in Virgo.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Be patient with others this morning because it’s easy to be irritable or fly off the handle. (There is no benefit for you in doing this.) Fortunately, as this day unfolds, relations with others, particularly co-workers, medical helpers and issues related to your pet will be warm and supportive. Complete turnaround.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

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Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is 58 today.
Scott A. Garfitt / Invision Files Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is 58 today.

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Challenges of Life- Goose Goslings jump over railway tracks to catch up to their parents at the Canadian Pacific Railway terminalon Keewatin St in Winnipeg Thursday morning. The young goslings seem to normally hatch in the truck yard a few weeks before others in town- Standup photo- ( Day 4 of Bryksa’s 30 day goose project) - Apr 30, 2012 (JOE BRYKSA / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS)
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Neilfest

Times Change(d), 234 Main St.

Friday, 9:30 p.m.; Saturday, 3 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

Tickets: $23 at eventbrite.ca

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Two-hander playing game of clones

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Two-hander playing game of clones

Ben Waldman 4 minute read Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025

Even though the play premièred in 2002, starring Daniel Craig and the late Michael Gambon, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s version of the cloning thriller A Number is an original copy.

That’s by Caryl Churchill’s design. Aside from upholding the interlacing dialogue between a father (Victor Ertmanis) and his son (Rodrigo Beilfuss), the Obie-winning playwright leaves the rest up to interpretation. Though each successive production shares the same script, Churchill’s complete eschewal of stage direction and design notes allows for individuated artistic mutations: no two snowflakes are alike.

“All she tells us is, ‘Here are the characters,’ their ages and that the whole play takes place in the father’s home,” says Beilfuss, who, as the artistic director of Shakespeare in the Ruins, is accustomed to more clearly delineated instructions. “But that’s it — we get to come up with everything else. Could they be drinking in the scene? Does the father use a cane? Could one of the sons be wearing a baseball cap?

“Basically, we’re creating this play, our own version of it, our own world.”

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Rodrigo Beilfuss plays Bernard in cloning thriller A Number.
MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS Rodrigo Beilfuss plays Bernard in cloning thriller A Number.

Newfoundland artist’s fictional hockey league takes on toxic masculinity, homophobia in the sport

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Newfoundland artist’s fictional hockey league takes on toxic masculinity, homophobia in the sport

Jen Zoratti 6 minute read Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025

The St. John’s Sissies. The Nain Nancys. The Come By Chance Flamers.

These are just some of the teams in the Queer Newfoundland Hockey League, the fictional conference at the heart of a multimedia solo exhibition of the same name by Canadian artist Lucas Morneau, which comes to Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg today.

Morneau crocheted and rug-hooked the brightly coloured, vintage-inspired jerseys — complete with logos — for all 14 of the QNHL’s teams, which are all named for pejoratives used against LGBTTQ+ communities in an act of reclamation.

It’s a strictly Newfoundland and Labrador league because Morneau, who uses they/them pronouns, grew up in Corner Brook (repped here by the Corner Brook Queens). But also, Newfoundland just has a lot of funny town names (see: Dildo, whose team in the QNHL is the Dykes, or Leading Tickles, whose team is the Lesbos).

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Morneau’s Queer Newfoundland Hockey League project reclaims homophobic pejoratives and reimagines them as teams to root for.
Annie France Noël photo. Morneau’s Queer Newfoundland Hockey League project reclaims homophobic pejoratives and reimagines them as teams to root for.

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Today’s horoscope

Georgia Nicols 4 minute read Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025

MOON ALERT: Avoid shopping or important decisions from 5 p.m. until 6 p.m. After that, the moon moves from Leo into Virgo.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

You’re eager to explore new ideas. One great option will be to look into the past for information you want because Mercury retrograde will assist you. You might learn from history. Likewise, you might be interested in making travel plans. If so, choose places you’ve been before.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

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Barbie star Ryan Gosling is 45 today.
Richard Shotwell / Invision Files Barbie star Ryan Gosling is 45 today.

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Georgia Nicols 4 minute read Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025

MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions. The moon is in Leo.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

The moon is in your fellow fire sign, which is supportive to you. This will encourage social interactions with others, a greater interest in sports and the enjoyment of playful activities with kids. Romance is blessed. Avoid disputes about shared costs or property.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

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Eva Wasney:

Stepping up for the planet

Stepping up for the planet

Winnipeg Free Press:

Free Press reviewers' top-rated picks for the 2019 theatre festival

Fringe storyteller Jem Rolls puts up posters for his show, The Walk in the Snow, at the Tom Hendry Warehouse Theatre in the Exchange District in Winnipeg. (Mikaela MacKenzie / Winnipeg Free Press)

AV Kitching, Ben Sigurdson, Alan Small, Eva Wasney and Jen Zoratti:

Streaming services offer up seasonal episodes aplenty to get your holiday fix

Glad TV tidings

AV Kitching, Ben Sigurdson, Alan Small, Ben Waldman, Eva Wasney and Jen Zoratti:

Christmas playlist has highs and Lows

MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS JP Hoe poes for a portrait in his studio before his 10th annual JP Hoe Hoe Hoe holiday show, which has grown massively over the years, in Winnipeg on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. Winnipeg Free Press 2018.

The Canadian Press:

CBC’s ‘The Porter,’ Nathan Fielder’s ‘The Rehearsal’ nab Spirit Awards nominations

Actors Ronnie Rowe (left), Jr. as Zeke and Aml Ameen (second right) as Junior and other cast members are shown in a scene from

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Homemade holidays: 12 days of vintage sweets

This marshmallowy fudge recipe from 1956 is nice to look at, but a mess to make. (Photo by Eva Wasney)

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Supplied Daniel Maslany portrays Det. Llewellyn Watts on the series and co-hosts the live show.

Mainstay of Canadian television turned into live symphonic experience

Conrad Sweatman 5 minute read 2:02 AM CST

It’s been an eventful couple of weeks in Winnipeg for new Canadian music.

Less than a week after the Winnipeg New Music Festival’s finale, another romp through Canadian orchestral sounds greets Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s audiences tonight.

This time, in a poppier key, with Murdoch Mysteries in Concert.

“It’s a concept that was developed a few years ago where we thought, what if we took an episode of television and created a live experience?” says Murdoch’s composer Rob Carli.

Catherine O’Hara flipped tropes, brought humanity to every role

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Catherine O’Hara flipped tropes, brought humanity to every role

Jen Zoratti 5 minute read 2:02 AM CST

Like many kids growing up in the ’90s, I first encountered Catherine O’Hara as Kevin’s mom in Home Alone.

Back then, she was just that: Kevin’s (Macaulay Culkin) mom. But watching the 1990 holiday classic as an adult, as I do every single Christmas with a lovely cheese pizza just for me, you realize the brilliance she brought to the character of Kate McCallister.

Only O’Hara could elevate one line into a movie-trailer tentpole catchphrase — “Kevin!” — by delivering it in a wide-eyed, two-syllable shriek.

Her comedic genius is everywhere, from her interactions on the phone with the Chicago police — “Yeah, hi, look…” — to her banter with real-life friend John Candy, as the Polka King of the Midwest.

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Catherine O’Hara was beloved by seemingly everyone.
Jordan Strauss / Invision Files Catherine O’Hara was beloved by seemingly everyone.

Klosterman’s musings on football, and its inevitable downfall, makes for stellar Super Bowl pregame prose

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Klosterman’s musings on football, and its inevitable downfall, makes for stellar Super Bowl pregame prose

Reviewed by Laurence Broadhurst 5 minute read 2:02 AM CST

This is a book about football.

It is so much a book about football that its title is simply Football. It has no subtitle.

The cover of the book is almost painfully austere. It looks and feels like a lonely, antiquated library book. The textured line drawing of two football players on the cover is uninvolved and old-timey. The font is defiant and stalwart. And the book itself is the colour of a football.

This is a book about football written by someone who adores football.

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In this 2025 photo, a capacity Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. awaits a game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Reed Hoffmann / Associated Press files In this 2025 photo, a capacity Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. awaits a game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.

Wilting marriage melded with myth, fairly tale and a pinch of porn in Lalonde’s latest

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Wilting marriage melded with myth, fairly tale and a pinch of porn in Lalonde’s latest

Reviewed by Sara Harms 4 minute read 2:02 AM CST

A reader friend said of Angélique Lalonde’s debut, Glorious Frazzled Beings “I don’t know what this is, but I like it.” When the short-story collection was a Giller Prize finalist, the jury called it “beguiling.”

That word again describes Lalonde’s eagerly anticipated follow-up work of fiction, Variations on a Dream. It’s a novel-length immersion into the slowly disintegrating marriage of Sarah and Trevor, who have two young daughters, a perfect online life and — here’s the especially modern twist — a secret and separate preoccupation with the same arthouse porn video.

The enchantment comes with the way their story is told through different perspectives, including but not limited to the couple in question as well as the integration of fairy tale and myth as part of their marriage lore.

Swans — in particular black swans, who may or may not mate for life — and Greek mythology (in this case Ariadne and Dionysus, the labyrinth and the string) feature thematically in playful and serious ways throughout the novel, casting sharp insights into the relationship between Sarah and Trevor and the increasing fragility of their connection.

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The couple in Angélique Lalonde’s new novel share a secret, separate preoccupation with the same arthouse porn video.
Andi Schulz photo The couple in Angélique Lalonde’s new novel share a secret, separate preoccupation with the same arthouse porn video.

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