Join them at the Gas Station Theatre and help send them off on in style as they embark on their European Tour, which of course starts off with performances at the Berlin International Improv Festival. The show will of course feature the ever-awesome improv duo of Stephen Sim and Lee White, joined by the ever-smooth DJ Hunnicutt on the 1's & 2's, adding his musical soundtrack to their theatrical and comedic improv.

The show costs $10 in advance, guarenteed to be worth every single penny and moment of your time. Your last chance to see these 3 dudes together on the same stage until the Fringe.

Come enjoy CRUMBS and Dj Hunnicutt make you laugh your asses off on, we'll see you there.

@Large & Kinetik a.k.a. The Dope Joints! DJs will show some Valentine's Day love to the city that hustles so hard with the Peg City Love Episode featuring all Winnipeg Hip Hop. The episode will then be podcasted and will be downloaded over 2000 times a month by our audience on every continent except Antarctica.

Artists, to get invovled, all you need to do is...

• Submit .mp3s for consideration to thedopejoints@gmail.com by Feb 13th with "Peg City Love Submission" in the subject line.
• Submit as many tracks as you like, preferably new or even exclusive.
• Include the artist, track and label/crew names.
• Tune in on Feb. 15th to see who makes the cut.
• Listen to The Dope Joints! Hip Hop Mixshow in the meantime and spread the word!

Thanks!

Kinetik, @Large... and sometimes DJ Stress

To celebrate the release of Leonard Cohen's latest album Old Ideas (January 31, 2012 on Sony Music Canada), we've got a special contest with a chance to win not only copies of the album, but also a limited edition lithograph by the legendary septuagenarian. For your chance to win, all you have to do is compose a haiku about Leonard (a man known for his own poetry) and post it on UMFM's Facebook page or on Twitter with the hashtag, #umfmcohen - winners will be announced on Valentine's Day 2012 so get your 5-7-5 in order and check out a stream of Sincerely, L Cohen's Old Ideas below.

As part of Winnipeg’s Shaw Festival, 101.5 UMFM presents a Shavian double bill – Don Juan In Hell and Overruled, two plays that showcase Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw’s intelligence and wit.

DON JUAN IN HELL

Don Juan in Hell is the dream sequence from Act III of Shaw’s 1903 play Man and Superman. Challenged by a critic to write a Don Juan play, Shaw proved that he could by continuing Mozart’s classic opera Don Giovanni, which ends with Don Juan being dragged to Hell. Like a good playwright, this ending made Shaw wonder what really happened to Don Juan’s soul? In Don Juan In Hell, Doña Ana has just arrived in hell, where she meets Don Juan, her deceased father and the Devil. Shaw turns the world upside down, depicting hell as beautiful because people down there think of only love and art, and heaven as troubled because people up there are not satisfied and want to improve life.

This production of Don Juan in Hell was directed by Charles Laughton. In the 1940s, Charles Laughton toured the United States performing various literary works. Based on the success of these shows, Laughton believed the American public was receptive to intelligent fare. So, he and agent Paul Gregory decided that Don Juan In Hell could be performed as a stage reading with actors reading off scripts at minimal cost in towns all across the country. The actors Laughton chose to work with were some of Hollywood brightest stars – Charles Boyer as Don Juan, Cedric Hardwicke as the Commander, Agnes Moorehead as Doña Ana and himself as the Devil. The show was performed over 500 times, including a Broadway run, earning over a million dollars. The New York Times called in it "a mighty and moving occasion, not only a performance but an intellectual crusade." Columbia Records recorded Don Juan in Hell as an LP in 1952 using the same cast, and it is this recording that UMFM is broadcasting.

OVERRULED

By contrast, Overruled is a witty comedy written by Shaw in 1912 about two couples who flirt with each other’s spouse to inject some life into their stale marriages. Reminiscent of Oscar Wilde’s masterwork The Importance of Being Earnest, Overruled shows how cleverly Shaw uses language as the characters exchange insults by twisting what the other person said. Overruled is considered by scholars to be a somewhat autobiographical play, as Shaw himself was undergoing the same situation facing Mr. Lunn’s character – trying to reconcile having an affair while dealing with the passing of his morally strong mother. This new production of Overruled was directed by Justin Olynyk and features an all Winnipeg cast: Bernard Boland as Mr. Juno, Jennifer Gottwald as Mrs. Juno, Jennifer Quinn as Mrs. Lunn and Peter Spencer as Mr. Lunn,

SHOWTIMES

Don Juan in Hell will be broadcast on Wednesday, January 25 at 7:15 pm.  Overruled will be broadcast Wednesday February 1 at 8 pm on 101.5 UMFM.

On February 18th at the West End Cultural Centre, talented local singer/songwriter Nathan Rogers will remind us the everlasting quality of the music of his legendary folk music icon father, Stan Rogers.

As a preview of this much anticipated, one of a kind show, Planet Mainstage will dedicate an entire show to this event with 2 hours of chat and live music with Nathan Rogers. The show also includes input from two of Nathan’s mentors, Mitch Podolak, founder of the Winnipeg Folk Festival, and Ken Rooks, long time artistic director of the Canmore Folk Festival.

Tune in to Planet Mainstage, this Saturday February 11 from 2-4pm!