Arts & Culture

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet begins their 2022-23 season with a bold retelling of Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s award-winning novel The Handmaid’s Tale.  

NEW YORK (AP) — Biographers try as best they can to walk in the shoes of their subjects. Charles Leerhsen took it a step further: He slept in the same French hotel room where Anthony Bourdain killed himself, earning a unique perspective — and pushback.
              

Since 1991 the Virtuosi Concert Series has been delighting audiences with world class chamber music, performed by some of the best musicians on the scene.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — “Missing Millions" is a 1922 silent film with a darkly prescient title — like the vast majority from that era, the movie all but vanished in the ensuing century, survived mostly by lobby cards.

Hannah Waddingham wore Dolce & Gabbana with bedazzled high top sneakers on her feet Monday while Elle Fanning went Old Hollywood in a gown designed by Sharon Long of her show, “The Great,” as glamour returned to the Emmys in sticky Los Angeles humidity.

Waddingham, from “Ted Lasso,” showed off her comfy white shoes beneath her corseted strapless pink look. Fanning, her hair in a pinned-back bob, said she wanted to honor the creatives on her show that provided her with her first Emmy nod. Fanning's look was black and pink, embellished at the chest.

Forced from their offices early in the pandemic, key leaders of the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center met in July 2020 under the trees of the venue’s Capital Grove patio to try to finally solve a decadeslong problem.

Could they accelerate the timetable to address their albatross: the orchestra’s much maligned, sonically challenged home?

“It was a group moment, like wow, the hall’s going to be closed down,” recalled Philharmonic President Deborah Borda. “Well, let’s get started.”

Weather-wise, the fall can be a rather uncertain time of the year. Sometimes, the month of October has brought warm, almost summery temperatures; other years it has been downright wintery. 

No matter the forecast, a book is a great way to spend time outdoors or in. 

Chris Hall of McNally Robinson Booksellers was on Morning Light with his latest picks for this first full month of autumn. 

After two years of shortened, hybrid festivals, the Winnipeg New Music Festival (WNMF) is back to shine in its full glory. The festival, which features world and Canadian premieres, exciting up-and-coming composers, and a unique venue, takes place from January 26 to February 3, 2023. 

The lineup for the internationally renowned new music festival was unveiled at a news conference at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada on Wednesday morning. 

The Chinatown Night Market aims to educate people about the culture and to gain more public interest for shops to stay operational.

Winnipeg's Chinatown Night Market begins Friday, October 7 at noon and it will include free bouncy castles, food trucks and food stalls, cultural performances, live bands, and a K-pop street party all for free.

The Manitoba Chamber Orchestra invites the audience to sit ringside at Westminster United Church to hear a pair of music heavyweights symphonically duke it out in their second concert in the 2022-23 season.