Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Reasons to love Winnipeg

#1 friends
#2 neat old houses
#3 five people can eat six dishes, steamed rice, tea, soup, and egg rolls for $63 at the Shaing Bo
#4 McNally Robinson bookstore
#5 Assiniboine Park
#6 the Forks
#7 Gunn's bakery - especially the onion bagels
#8 interesting politics
#9 St. Boniface
#10 the Goldeye (the baseball team, not the smoked fish)
#11 Gimli (the biggest icelandic community outside Iceland)
#12 no Hummers on the streets
#13 the Warehouse District (it used to be seedy - now it is funky)
#14 Homemade Music (great folk music record store)
#15 Folklorama (two weeks of ethnic celebration)
#16 the Manitoba Opera Association
#17 the Winnipeg symphony
#18 the Winnipeg folk festival
#19 the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
#20 free jazz concerts outside in the summer
#21 Manitoba Theatre Centre
#22 all the other theatre and folk music and choral music in the city

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