Your source for the latest on art news, reviews and more. http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_arts Copyright 2007 Winnipeg Free Press. All Rights Reserved. http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71053 In these economically perilous times, many people are asking themselves what they're worth. For most of us, the answer is: a lot less than we thought. In Rich, a new Manitoba Theatre for Young People musical, a bling-starved 16-year-old skateboarder named Timm learns he's far wealthier than he ever dreamed. All he has to do is barter away his laugh to a creepy corporat... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:28 CST http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71053 http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70992 Theatre PreviewMedeaManitoba Theatre CentreOpens tonight, to Dec. 13Tickets: $21 - $61  The new life-size bronze statue of John Hirsch and Tom Hendry in front of the Manitoba Theatre Centre is getting a big hand from Canadian stage diva Seana McKenna and her director husband Miles Potter. "It has ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:28 CST http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70992 http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70981 The story of selling your soul to the devil for fame and fortune has been around for over 500 years and yet never gets old. The German legend about the magician Faust, or Faustus, first surfaced in 1580 but has been an enduring go-to plot in literature, music and movies ever since. David Mamet borrowed the tale for his 2004 play Faustus, tunesmith Randy Newman ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:28 CST http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70981 http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70680 By Hillel Italie NEW YORK -- In the 1960s, Irving Wallace wrote a novel called The Man, in which the sudden deaths of the president, vice-president and speaker of the House bring to power a most unlikely occupant of the Oval Office: Senator Douglas Dillman -- a black man. Thanks to the election of Barack Obama, a black president in Washington fiction will be no more excepti... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:28 CST http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70680 http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70593  Theatre ReviewEn Conduisant Miss Daisy Author: Alfred UhryNov. 14-Dec. 6Theatre de la Chapelle By Bryan Rivers THE latest offering of the Cercle Mo­lière, En Conduisant Miss Daisy, which opened Friday night, is an engaging and heart-warming translation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer winni... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:28 CST http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70593 http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70511 The Heroin Diaries By Nikki Sixx (Pocket Books, $23.50) THE M?tley Cr?e bassist diary charts a year in the life of a shattered rock star. The is Noise By Alex Ross (Picador, $20) THE New Yorker magazine's respected music critic tells the history of the 20th century through its music. Gretzky to Lemi... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:28 CST http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70511 http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70510  By Michael Van Rooy Former Winnipeggers Alissa York and Liam Durcan along with former Winnipeg Free Press reporter Lawrence Hill have novels long-listed for the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Award. Fourteen novels by Canadians (out of 146 in total) have been nominated for the $150,000 award, which will be awarded in June. Montreal's... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:28 CST http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70510 http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70506  IzzyThe Passionate Life and Turbulent Times of Izzy Asper, Canada's Media MogulBy Peter C. NewmanHarperCollins, 390 pages, $35  Reviewed by Morley Walker There is no getting around it. Proud Winnipegger and Canwest Global founder Izzy Asper was larger ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:28 CST http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70506 http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70505  By John Sullivan WHILE vastly overused, the word "seminal" might be acceptably applied to Nelson DeMille's 1990 masterwork of American social commentary-cum-crime, The Gold Coast. It is, then, with a mix of near-giddy anticipation and not inconsiderable trepidation (particularly so soon after the stretched credulity ... Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:33:28 CST http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70505 http://whatsonwinnipeg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70504   Brisingr By Christopher PaoliniKnopf, 748 pages, $32Reviewed by MacKenzie Cheater Not many authors can claim to have a bestselling series; fewer still accomplish that before their 25th birthday. But American Christopher Paolini's wildly popular Inheritance fantasy series has done just that, s... 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