2011 Winnipeg Folk Festival: Friday Photo Gallery
Posted by: Showbiz Monkeys • July 9, 2011 @ 1:26pm
Friday evening brought the first rain of the festival (not the most fun for our first night camping at the festival campground), but most of the day was sunny, hot, and humid. Highlights from Friday's line-up included Dan Mangan, k.d.
Folk Fest Interview: Rosalyn and Vanessa of Winnipeg country-roots band Oh My Darling
Posted by: Paul Little • July 8, 2011 @ 9:33pm
Unfortunately, as we alluded to yesterday, there won't be any big posts for the next couple days from the Winnipeg Folk Festival, as the exhaustion (and let's face it, fun) of camping is taking up a lot of our time over the weekend.
Tegan and Sara energize the usually chilled Winnipeg Folk Festival crowd on Thursday night
Posted by: Paul Little • July 8, 2011 @ 2:40am
Thursday night at the 2011 Winnipeg Folk Festival featured some pleasant surprises, but it was indie folk mainstays Tegan and Sara who rocked the Bird's Hill Park field to a delighted and uncharacteristically raucous crowd.
The 38th annual Winnipeg Folk Festival kicks off Five Days in July with Wednesday headliners Blue Rodeo
Posted by: Paul Little • July 6, 2011 @ 11:21pm
Back in 1993, the iconic Canadian roots-rock band Blue Rodeo released their album Five Days in July, probably their most defining work in their nearly three decades as a band.
The once quiet small Louisiana town of Bon Temps use to be a simple place. Nothing too complicated. Mostly just a dozen or so of some plain old fashion vampires with maybe a telepath for a waitress and shifter for a bartender. Now a days Bon Temps' population has gotten much more diverse, more supernatural.
Call them summer blockbusters, call them popcorn flicks, or just call them eye candy. They are films where you check your exceptions for any reminiscence of a story at the theater door, turn your brain off for 2 hours, just sit back and enjoy the eye popping images.
Looking for a little excitement on your Sunday nights? Just wait until the sun goes down and the blood starts to flow.
Streaks. They are a funny thing. The longer they go on, the more interest they gain. When they are in progress, they almost seem endless or impossible to stop.
I've done it in my basement. I've done it outdoors. My favourite place to do it is in a park. I used to be shy about doing it in public but I overcame that. I do it fast. I do it slow. Sometimes I take hours to finish. Once I pulled a groin doing it. After I'm done, I usually like a nice hot shower and have a nap. Sometimes I do it with other people.
With Marvel out-numbering this summer's superhero flicks 3-to-1, DC Comics is hoping their emerald guardian can take a piece of the action. Unfortunately, Green Lantern joins the comic book-heavy box-office without a necessary ingredient: a script.
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