Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 28, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press entertainment Section Morley b1 1995 show today on television hocus on laughs but smartly this 1993 movie comedy stars Bette Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker As a Trio of bumbling witches brewing lots of trouble for youngsters in present Day 8 dark night Freaky stories an evening of Nail biting television for kids begins with four spooky stories each created by a team of Canadian animators arid illustrators including a Story about a pet Alligator who escapes into the plumb next up is a Marathon of four new Are you afraid of the dark one Fea Turing Winnipeg actress Samantha 9 Medicine woman Mike Jane Seymour treats an elderly patient seeking Relief in the towns natural she also Hopes to coax Sully Joe Lando into attending a halloween party As Prince charming to her 7 psycho get in the halloween spirit with Alfred Hitchcock classic Slasher movie starring Anthony Perkins As the apparently amiable operator of an rundown 8 today in music history in Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass boys joined the grand Ole the father of Bluegrass was auditioned personally by opry founder George Hay the first number Monroe played on opry the following saturday was mule Skinner born this Day 1902 Joan 1929 1939 1967 soundbite youre going for visual laughs Ana not biting political with a radio its so current and immediate we can do those things and not be limit Linda Host of Csc radios double on Why her and part Ner Bob Robertsons humor works bet Tor on the today lineup concerts Winnipeg symphony orchestra Corey Centennial concert 8 to Artisan with scrub West end cultural 8 theatre Kysely and do Mac 4 to lonely planet popular theatre Gas station 8 and Kinder transport Winnipeg jewish Portage place ends tomorrow 4 to heart of the dog pet final 8 Gilbert and Sullivan dinner the Ortris Georges 6 celebrations dinner theatre Crys tals 6 and out and about United Way garage Sale Winnipeg convention 8 to 4 Public sky observing session Assiniboine Park Cricket to ghost him Bur Oak Railhead on Birds Hill 8 Ween labor Prate hard and 8 and rumours comedy club Jeff 1 Brave new weasels planetarium nwht8pqts f dint r 1 155 bus boy be Rouge Wendy d hotel county a fun club famous junkyard the breath grenade and the Huttl fort Garry Jose Macaroni bar Mother halloween party with the 9 Pyramid not Goin to vegas and on Rovt Fulda boxy tequila Joes Continental pot ii pm honest ballroom com ram pm i plenty of halloween haunts to visit before the big night y husband really likes taking the kids out in Dis Guise to extort candies from the t but for halloween is As former friends gaily whip up Dinosaur and Princess Jasmine costumes out of scraps of mate rial from their immaculate in facing that grim mothers Bottom line cant do cant do but this Holiday can be even for the costume Hal take the family for a walk this weekend on a haunted Forest at Girard a third generation family farm West of the Trail winds along the la Salle the guide is a Wise cracking Green and the trek includes a a spooky Tunnel and a few it takes All of 10 min the scary bits dont fool and even the Littlest kids leave with huge other events at the farm include a pumpkin carving con Cornfield scarecrow making contest and Wagon for each three Dunders Are its a few fun hours with the and you get to lurch Home with an authentic scarecrow for the front the Girards provide the twine and face markers its a stuff yourself the Girards can measure their Success this year in those last inspired by a Trade convention in Danny and his wife Janet held two halloween and there were eight scarecrows to judge on the final Treyve had three weekends this month today and Tomor Childs play Margo Goodhand Row Are the last Days and the scarecrows have taken Over the lolling Large As life in front of the cafe in their value Village up to 500 people a Day have been coming its mostly been word of Danny by the end of this we should have at least 200 or 300 scare and another 200 have been taken the farm Sells you Pickem strawberries in july and will offer asparagus next last year was their first attempt at growing they sell for 25 cents a this is a charming and very Cowkey Janet father greets you As you Park your and her brother Gil Tyrrell makes a very funny a fourth Genera Tion Girard is a and his Little sister just May take a turn As a Witch if she feels like its a 15minute drive West on the then three Kilometres South of Elie on or turn right at the Girard gardens the onsite cafe serves lunch or farm hours Are 11 to 5 weather permit or Call 204 and if it has rained Wear it gets Gummy out there with Frank and his Ghoulie Sqq for those who dont want to leave theres the Manitoba childrens museum fundraiser at the Girard gardens is crawling with Creepy such As this award Ulof and which Danny sizes for each museum Mem and Are the place is offering a ghostly Good time from 10 to 6 with for tune treat bag decorate Mas making and the Star attraction is the haunted but the whole museum is decorated for the children Are encouraged to Wear Sqq the Kinsmen discovery Cen tre at Assiniboine Park zoo is a veritable haunted House this zookeepers Jacquie Randall and Nancy King started Deco rating the Centre four years the first year we kind of did it behind the foremans Randall but when he walked in the next he liked every year weve just added a Little tiny ghosts and cobwebs cling to the Little items Are in most of the exhibits this year Treyve added a Mel Gibson Vampire and the courtyard music is Early funeral today and tomorrow Between noon and there will be Fortune witches and skits on the courtyard stage As the zoo is free this which just happens to be Hal but for kids two to 12 Are explore the Centre on a quieter its open 10 to 4 and dont miss the creepiest display giant cockroaches crawling through a decaying very scary group show Worth two hours by Garth Buchholz free press correspondent i to enough to make an Art Lover this embarrassment of this who who of the local visual arts we of referring to the Sec Ond group show at the new site located in the former Home of the defunct Brian Melnychenko this new collective claiming the heavyweight title of Manitoba largest commercial Art features 32 of Manitoba most prominent visual artists in a prominent about 77 Premium works of photography and mixed Media were displayed at the official opening wednesday theres no word on How Long this partic ular collection will be intact at the but its Worth devoting at least two hours of our even if youre not shelling out for an Esther Markov sculpture made of paper and charcoal but who can put a Price on Art other than the of Here we have Don Aganetha Bruce Art review Wanda Koop makes a big statement with her two painting scene called red Many upon entering the second floor gallery in the Exchange you encounter a Keith Oliver sculpture that looms like a student project from the faculty of Archi waiting for Cobrea labelled As a is a towering series of three wooden derricks bearing a lattice Bridge crossing Over to a one cant help but gaze at this impressive Experiment in perspective and feel As big As a speaking of artist Wanda Koop has site gallery second group show 250 Mcdermot opened 25 out of five William Tony Diana Myron Turner and also contributed a couple of her characteristically Ima sized acrylic most compelling is red a kind of apocalyptic environmental statement with a huge red Dot centred on a Dusky land scape painted on actual Carton this disconcerting work overlaps the abstract and the there is a kind of ineffable emotion in two related works by Richard stolen sweets is a Small drawing using White Crayon on Black sons Moth ers is a larger scale work on Canvas using Oil Sticks and acrylic both of these profound images depict a foreground scene where a half dressed woman in a night coat smiles As a feral child with wings kneels at her feet beside an open in the Back ground is a disturbing glimpse of a rape in an one of about three sculptures by Eva has a distinctly feminist this Small Bronze and Wood statue features a squarely primitive figure of a while behind her an almost child like male figure is stuck to her Back like an this is a highly commendable Art exhibit that should Appeal to any at a ;