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2025 Winnipeg Folk Festival Preview

Posted by: Nicolien Klassen-Wiebe  •  July 9, 2025 @ 12:12am

Finally, another Winnipeg Folk Festival is nigh! This is no ordinary year, though... it's the 50th anniversary!! This prairie celebration of music, art, and community has been bringing joy for half a century, my friends.

The 2025 edition of the Winnipeg Folk Festival will take place July 10–13, in Manitoba's Birds Hill Provincial Park.

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Review: Smurfs

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  July 17, 2025 @ 11:35am

Created in 1958 by Belgian artist Peyo, the Smurfs first appeared in le journal de Spirou, an anthology magazine which was the home of many respected artists over the years. They first landed in animation in 1961, but I came by the Smurfs in the 1981 wave of Smurfy fandom.

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Order Up! - Esther Serota - The Ikea of food

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  July 13, 2025 @ 1:28pm

Join us and listen to Esther Serota break Mary. Things get spicy here on Order Up!

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The Stanley County Cut-ups: Winnipeg Folk Festival Interview & Performance

Posted by: Nicolien Klassen-Wiebe  •  June 29, 2025 @ 8:44am

The Stanley County Cut-ups were everywhere at the 2024 Winnipeg Folk Festival. Besides their own concert, they were in several workshops throughout the weekend.

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Order Up! - Dewayne White - With an asterisk...

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  June 29, 2025 @ 7:00am

We get political here on Order Up, Matt pulls a switcheroo and we chat with Dewayne White who enlightens us on weiner wisdom helping us set our frankfurter boundaries.

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Order Up! - Charlene Ward - Winerettes

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  June 16, 2025 @ 7:00am

Friend of the podcast Charlene Ward joins us in the studio with Mary Kennedy visiting us all the way from L.A. We talk hot dogs, Philly Cheesesteak, and Kelly's ex's winerettes.

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Review: Materialists

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  June 14, 2025 @ 9:04pm

Going into the film Materialists, I didn't know much about the film. The buzz seemed to imply it was a romantic comedy. What I did know was the writer/director Celine Song had once reenacted the Chekhov play "The Seagull" on The Sims 4 and streamed it on Twitch.

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Interview: Eric Hicks from Lifetime's Girl Taken

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  June 7, 2025 @ 8:45pm

I recently chatted over Zoom with Eric Hicks (Cardinal, Bad Blood, Schitt's Creek), who is now starring in the Lifetime movie Girl Taken.

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Order Up! - Alison Arngrim and Dean Butler - Little Hot Dog on the Prairie

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  June 2, 2025 @ 6:00am

We live out Mary's childhood fever dreams as Alison Arngrim returns and brings along her friend Dean Butler. We get really into the weeds around hot dogs, and Alison once again plays it smart and brought hot dogs to the hot dog episode. We also talk about the upcoming new adaptation of Little House on the Prairie.

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Review: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Posted by: Andrew Lizotte  •  May 17, 2025 @ 12:40pm

As a film critic reviewing an action franchise, I feel like you already hate me. It's assumed that I'm going to dunk on this movie, because my tastes are inherently going to be pretentious.

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Review: Friendship

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  May 13, 2025 @ 7:52pm

Written and directed by Andrew DeYoung (Our Flag Means Death, I Love That for You), Friendship is the ultimate fake out.

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