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Arts briefs
Skate under Bokeh // Learn to edit video // High-Brow Comedy // The last 99 Pieces of Art on the Wall // Launching Drag in the Peg
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Whose House? Monica’s House!
“Sparkle and shine. That’s what I love. That’s the theme of my life.”
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Back in action(ish)
By now, it might be starting to sink in that it really is January. It really is a new year. And we really are back to whatever routines that entails … kind of.
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Making art in the summer
Emerging artists have the odds stacked against them, but that hasn’t stopped a surge of initiatives by and for new Winnipeg artists from being created in recent years.
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Favourite Local Athlete
1. Andrew Harris (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
2. Patrik Laine (Winnipeg Jets)
3. Desiree Scott (Utah Royals FC, Canadian national team) -
Favourite Local Winter Activity
1. Skating
2. Staying inside
3. Festival du Voyageur -
Favourite Local Date Activity
1. Go for a walk
2. Eat food together
3. TIE: Drink booze / See a movie -
Favourite New Local Independant Business
1. Tony Chestnut (539 Osborne St.)
2. Little Sister (539 Osborne St.)
3. Grey Owl Coffee & Pub (272 Main St.) -
Favourite Local Place to Eat
1. Clementine (123 Princess st.)
2. Chaeban (390 Osborne St.)
3. Little Goat (2615 Portage Ave.) -
Favourite Local Baker
1. Cora Wiens (Eadha Bread)
2. Amanda Kinden (Oh Doughnuts)
3. Suzanne Gessler (The Pennyloaf Bakery) -
Favourite Local Chef
1. Ana Damaskin (capital broadway)
2. Mandel Hitzer (deer + almond)
3. Honourable mentions: Ben Kramer, Chris Gama, Grant Danyluk -
Favourite Local Gathering Place
1. The Forks
2. Old Market Square
3. Portage and Main -
Favourite Local Place That No Longer Exists
1. Lo Pub
2. Village Cafe
3. The Royal Albert Arms -
Favourite Local Politician
1. Ed Ackerman
2. Wab Kinew
Honorable mentions: Brian Bowman, Nahanni Fontaine, Robert Falcon-Ouellette, Kate Sjoberg
Favourite Local Achiever Over 60
1. Ed Ackerman
2. Sel Burrows
3. Fred Penner -
Favourite Local Political Moment
1. Vote to open Portage and Main
2. Election debate
3. More moments from civic election: Jenny Motkaluk losing, Ed Ackerman calling to dam the Panama Canal -
Favourite Local Activist
1. Annie Beach
2. Sadie-Phoenix Lavoie
3. Uzoma Asagwara -
Favourite Local Grassroots Group
1. Bear Clan Patrol
2. TIE: QPOC Winnipeg / Black Space Winnipeg
3. Meet Me at the Bell Tower -
Favourite U of W Prof.
1. Andrew Burke
2. Jim Silver
3. Lisa Tucker -
Favourite Local Filmmaker
1. Ryan Steel
2. TIE: Solmund MacPherson / Jared Adams
3. Roger Boyer -
Favourite Local Social Media Presence
1. Nardcity Winnipeg
2. @notmystellas
3. Synonym Art Consultation
University of Winnipeg and downtown community newspaper