Shelmerdine Halloween fun l Edward II l The Wet Secrets l The Ripperz l The Perpetrators and The Reverend Rambler l Secret Cinema: Andrew Burke l Andrea Graham, The Librarian l Photo Sessions l The Parkinson’s Choir

Shelmerdine Events

To register or for more info please call 204.895.7203 ext 204 or email 

October 1 at 6:00 pm to November 1 at 7:00 pm

Fall Wreath Workshop 

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and nothing is more welcoming than a beautiful wreath on your front door! Our florist will guide you through the design and construction. This is a make-and-take workshop. 

$65 per person; all materials included. 

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Spooktacular Fun at Shelmerdine 

9:30 am to 4:30 pm, October 10, 13, 14, 

16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31 

and

9:30 am to 7:30 pm, October 15, 22, 29

For kids ages 3-10, this not-so-scary indoor playground features a haymaze, tire swings, bouncy castle, ziplines, face painting and more! 

A great way to get into the Halloween spirit! 

Just $5 per child; proceeds benefit local children’s charities.

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October 22 at 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm

Magic Night at the Haymaze Event 

A night of wonder for the little ones as Ryan Price Magic amazes you with this 45 minute show. Magic, birds and (maybe) rabbits, oh my! 

Cost is $5 per child. Preregistration is required.

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Asper Center for Theatre & Film, 400 Colony Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Tickets $20 - Regular  /  $15 - Student/Industry/Underemployed
Doors & Bar open 30 minutes prior to showtime.

Thursday, Oct 1 and Friday, Oct 2 @ 8
Saturday, Oct 3 @ 2 & 8
Sunday, Oct 4 @ 2

Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, a new adaptation by Kendra Jones
Directed by Sarah Constible
Why should you love him, who the world hates so?
Out of the ashes, a society rises. Newly crowned King Edward II rules an unstable kingdom. When he raises Gaveston above the rest, his hold on power weakens. Once again, war threatens the land as jealousy and intolerance rip family, lovers and friends apart.

Kevin Anderson, Andrew Cecon, Toby Hughes, Tom Keenan, Daina Leitold, Derek Leenhouts, Mel Marginet, Tracey Nepinak, Karl Thordarson and Kevin Klassen as King Edward II.

Theatre by the River celebrates ten years producing independent, professional theatre!

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The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3L 2B9

October 1, Doors 8 / Show 9:00 pm - 11:55 pm
$12 Tickets  

The Park Theatre presents The Wet Secrets as part of our 10th Anniversary Weekend. 

The Wet Secrets is a six piece rock’n’roll dance band that plays swampy basslines, primal drumming, keys, congas & vocal harmonies galore. Formed on a dare by Lyle Bell, Trevor Anderson and Kim Rackel, the bass and horn-heavy group burst onto the scene with 2006’s A Whale of a Cow; 2007 saw the release of the fuzzed-up full-length Rock Fantasy. 

The Wet Secrets have signed with Six Shooter Records for their upcoming album The Tyranny of Objects, due out in early 2016.

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October 2, Doors 8 / Show 9:00 pm - 11:55 pm
$10 Tickets

The Park Theatre presents The Ripperz as they release their new album with guests Dangercat and Harley James Flett.

The Ripperz’ talent, passion, and laid back style pulls in new fans at each performance. The home-style brand of rock and roll varies from folk tinged ballads to upbeat rockers with an occasional hard rock scream thrown in for good measure.

Dangercat are a four-piece punk band from Winnipeg. Their new album ‘To The Moon’ came out September, 2014. 

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October 3, Doors 8 / Show 9:00 pm - 11:55 pm

$20 Tickets 

The Park Theatre is proud to present The Perpetrators and The Reverend Rambler as part of our 10th Anniversary Weekend.

The Perpetrators front-man and founding member Jay Nowicki is rated one of Canada’s tastiest guitar players. Together with the rhythm section of Emmet VanEtten and John Scoles they deliver a tight, raw and intense blues experience.

The Reverend Rambler is not actually a man of the cloth. For much of the last six years, Matt Colpitts has frequently stormed Manitoba stages, issuing up foot-stomping sermons of ferocious rhythm and blues.

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October 2, 7:00 pm
Winnipeg Film Group, 304 - 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 1H3
Black Lodge Studio (3rd Floor, 100 Arthur Street)

Secret Cinema with guest curator Andrew Burke
Admission by donation

Secret Cinema is a new all-celluloid film series on the First Friday of every month.
Each screening will feature a guest curator who will select classic 16mm films from our own collection, but the films are always a secret!

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October 3, 9:00 pm
The Pyramid Cabaret, 176 Fort Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 1C9

Andrea Graham is known as The Librarian. The Bass Coast Music Festival's co-founder and music curator has been making some very loud noises up and down the Pacific Northwest for the better part of a decade. Her knack for blending total dance floor destruction with sly subtleties and hot new exclusives makes for a consistently accessible, yet undeniably future sound.

Andrea has toured the Pacific Northwest club & festival circuit extensively, and has performed as far way as Costa Rica and throughout the midwest. She also has a bi-weekly radio show on Sub.fm every second Wednesday.

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October 9, 13 and 17
The Dog Loft Inc., 245 Marion Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba

The wonderful Teri-Lynn Kosinski has offered to do Fall Mini Photo Sessions
50% of the proceeds will go to the Boston Terrier and Pug Rescue of Southern Manitoba Inc.
Photos taken on these days will NOT be posted on Facebook, Sessions must be booked.
$30, cash or cheque only - 1 digital copy OR 2 5 x 7 Print
To book an appointment, please email Teri-Lynn

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Do you have Parkinson’s Disease?
Do you enjoy or did you used to enjoy singing?
Do you have trouble expressing yourself through your voice or facial expressions?
Do you sometimes have a hard time recognizing how others might be feeling?

If you answered “yes”, you may be interested in a new FREE choir program developed by researchers in the SMART Lab at Ryerson University.
The choir will run for a total of 13 weeks per season, with each session lasting an hour.
This hour of singing is followed by a social hour with refreshments provided.
The choir focuses on improving vocal quality, facial expressiveness and emotion perception.

The Parkinson’s Choir involves singing both happy/upbeat songs and sad/slower songs while mirroring the choir director’s expressions for each of those emotions.
If you are interested in joining the choir, or have any questions, please contact
Esztella Vezer on 416-979-5000 Ext. 4989 or by e-mailing 

CBC video and article
Parkinson's choir may help 'masked face syndrome'

Help us keep the choir going!
Our goal is to keep the choir going for a full year and to make it accessible to more people living with Parkinson’s, so we need more help.
Please consider making a tax deductible donation through our online giving page.  

WAG Fundraiser: Hot and Cold l Red Dress Gala & Fashion Show l Get Your Heart On l Triple Your Donation to Heart and Stroke

February 22

Winnipeg Art Gallery, 300 Memorial Blvd.

"Hot and Cold"

Birchwood BMW Art & Soul features DJs, live music and entertainment, and gallery tours.

Come out of the cold into the green of Spring. Dance the night away to Pypes and Doves. 

Grab a cold one and catch some shade in our Summer Beach Party on the Mezzanine.

Enjoy the falling leaves as you dance to DJs Co-op and Hunnicut on the third floor. 

On our fourth floor warm up by the fireplace and chill out with a jam session by The Lytics. 

Enjoy the beauty of the Northern Lights.

Our exclusive four level gala event has become renowned on the Winnipeg Social scene. 

Tickets are $50 each and can be purchased online, in person, or by phone - 204.786.6641

All proceeds go to the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

A discounted rate is available for groups of 10 tickets for $450, purchased at one time.

Present your ticket stub at the WAG front desk for a 25% discount off a WAG membership.

Offer ends March 31 - Valid only for new or lapsed (6 months) individual memberships.

Please visit the Art & Soul 2014 website for more details.

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February 26, 6:00 pm until 9:00 pm

2nd Annual Red Dress Gala & Fashion Show

Stereo Nightclub, Canad Inns, 1034 Elizabeth Road at Lagimodiere 

A fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba, hosted as a Live Red Event.

The fashion show will feature the work of local designers: Kari Manty, Melanie Wrobel, 

Issis Gilkes, Cheryl Scott of Rockabetty boutique, Out of the Blue’s design submissions. 

The evening will be hosted by Adam West from Energy 106

It will include hors d'oeuvres, silent auction, and a chance to make a difference. 

Tickets for this event are $50 and are available for purchase at 

Society the Salon, 7-120 Donald Street, or at Rockabetty, B-121 Osborne Street. 

Cash or cheque will be accepted, with all cheques made payable to "Red Dress Gala."

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February 27

downtown Toronto at Switch Nightclub

Get Your Heart On

Heart disease and stroke are two of the three leading causes of death in Canada. 

Those Girls have created an annual event called “Get Your Heart On.” Last year, with over 200 guests in attendance, we were able to raise over $15,000 for the foundation. 

For more information: FBC Member Robyn MacDonald of Planet Byn 

For more details, or to buy tickets please visit here.

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Donate now  to the Heart and Stroke Foundation and Desjardins Insurance will TRIPLE IT.

As a youngster, Olympic figure skater Isabelle Brasseur's fainting spells went unexplained. Eventually, doctors learned a heart defect could cause her heart to stop as a result of extreme exertion or stress. While giving birth to daughter Gabriella, Isabelle's heart stopped for 31 seconds. A jolt of adrenalin got it going again. Mom and baby were fine. 

Heart and Stroke Foundation researchers have taken major strides to prevent sudden cardiac death by identifying the link between fainting and unexplained cardiac arrest.  Every dollar donated puts us closer to making more breakthrough discoveries that save lives and support survivors, their families and caregivers. 

Winnipeg Motivation Monday (MoMonday!)

Nov. 12, 6:30 pm

Sam's Place, 159 Henderson Highway

MoMondays is coming to Winnipeg!  Think of it as a cross between 

open mic comedy and TED Talks, but with motivational speakers. 

You'll see six to eight speakers tell a few stories from their keynote speeches. 

Some are funny, some are thought-provoking, all are motivating.

Doors open at 6:30 for great coffees, teas and deserts

Cover charge is $10 online until Nov 9, $15 at the door. 

And sign up for Mo Updates while you're at it!

You'll meet the nicest people at MoMondays!

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Toronto MoMonday on November 26

Toronto Labour Day Parade l Ontario Events

CUPE Ontario will be leading the Labour Day Parade in Toronto this year.

September 3, 8:30 am

Parade leaving University Ave. & Dundas, march at 9:30 am to Exhibition Place

Join CUPE Ontario President Fred Hahn, Secretary-Treasurer Candace Rennick and 

thousands of sisters and brothers iin celebrating labour's many achievements and 

in showing Solidarity Against Austerity.

Labour Day parades, picnics and barbeques will take place 

in dozens of communities across the province.

For information on events across the province.

Burlesque Hall of Fame Fundraisers

Our mission is to raise funds for the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Vegas!! 

August 23, 9:30 pm to 12:30 am

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor West, Toronto 

$20 

Hosted by: The Great Canadian Wolfman 

Tickets at Helles Belles & at the door.

Great Canadian Burlesque: Hands Across the Continent

Line up includes burlesque performers, jazz singers, circus performers and 

members of the Canadian Burlesque Hall of Fame. 

Silent auction, live music and more!

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August 31

The Blind Monk 918 12th Ave SW, Calgary. 

Doors are at 8:00 pm, with the first set kicking off at 9:00 pm.

$15, available at the door.

ALL proceeds go to support the Burlesque Hall of Fame!

Summer Sizzler - An evening in support of The Burlesque Hall of Fame

Emcees

• Master Sarah Moanies

• Mistress GiGi

• Roxy Floggings

Three sets, three emcees, tons of performers - a broad representation from 

Calgary's best and brightest. 

Remember: if you can't make the show but would still like to help out, 

donate through the IndiGoGo campaign!

There are great perks!!

JP Saxe l Christian Bridges l Noah Kaplan l Unbuttoned

Anton's Chair

Drake Underground, 1150 Queen Street West, Toronto

July 11, 7:30 pm

$7 cover

Hosted By Phil Nozuka

Anton's Chair is a community of artists united by their love for art and social activism. 

If you create or appreciate art that effects the world in a positive way, you can be a part of Anton's Chair! 

JP Saxe with

• TJ Whitelaw

• Alex St. Kitts

• Robin Claxton

• Christian Bridges

• Johnny Righteous

• Nick Ferraro

will be playing music from their album, inspired by JP's time in East Africa. 

Unbuttoned will be rockin' material from their new album "Electric Kingdom"! 

You'll want to be picking up a copy at the show. 

Poet Noah Kaplan will be moving us all with his words. Those of you who know Noah know how lucky we are to be sharing this night with him. 

Christian Bridges will be opening the night and gracing the stage with some special surprise guests!

Burlesque Brunch Mother's Day Extravaganza!

May 13

Tickets $10 at the door.  VIP tables available.  To reserve your seating.

Its Mothers Day and what better way to say you care then to bring your mom to a burlesque Brunch!!! 

Let's show your mothers what we do so well!

Treat them to a delicious brunch at the Cadillac Lounge!!

This showcase of hot burlesque features the stars of Great Canadian Burlesque as well as featured guests from the creme of our city and NYC!!

So far on the line up Dolly Berlin, Fionna Flauntit, Aviva The Mirage, Miss Mitzy Cream, Chaos Divine, Esther DeVille, Manitoba's Miss La Muse, and from Kitchener Sassy Ray!! 

Also STOS Honey B.Hind, DD Star & Sucre A la Creme!

Let's make MOM Proud!! 

Sex Worker Solidarity

A Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly Coffeehouse

March 4, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Free

Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham Street (Bathurst Station) 

Wheelchair accessible space. Unfortunately the washrooms are not accessible.

Panellists: Kathryn Payne, Keisha Scott, Phoenix Kat, Kyisha Williams and Victoria Love

Moderator: Emily van der Meulen

This discussion will address how acting in solidarity with sex worker rights organizations, and supporting sex workers in their efforts to improve their working conditions and end criminalization, are important in the movement towards expanding labour rights for all. 

Sex workers in Toronto have been organizing for improved labour and social rights for over 30 years.  And yet, we have witnessed an intensification of criminal law sanctions against sex workers' labour activities since the mid-1980s. 

Despite their ongoing efforts to change social views, sex-work continues to be seen by many as illegitimate, dangerous, exploitive, and valueless.  Sex workers have identified criminalization, and its resulting stigma and discrimination, as central to the problems they face. 

Therefore, labour organizing for better protections is inseparable from the fight for decriminalization.

Women's Memorial March of Manitoba / Toronto

February 14, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

University of Winnipeg - Bullman Centre, 515 Portage Avenue

Hot refreshments and food will be served.

Please wear red or purple if possible.

To stand together united as one strong voice, for those who are unable to sound their voice. 

We wish to raise awareness and honour the missing or murdered women in support of their families and friends.

There will be people across Canada on February 14, marching to honour these women.

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Toronto’s 7th Annual Rally for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women

February 14, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Feast at the 519 Church Street Community Centre, 519 Church Street following the rally.

Raising our Voices to Demand the United Nations Investigate 

Missing & Murdered Indigenous women in Canada

According to research conducted by the Native Women Association of Canada (NWAC), under the Sisters In Spirit Program, over 600 Indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing, most of them over the last 30 years.

Despite clear evidence that this is an ongoing issue, the federal government decided in the Fall of 2010 to end funding to Sisters in Spirit. Instead, monies in the amount of $10 million have been dedicated to a central RCMP missing person centre. 

The same institution who, along with the Vancouver Police Department, failed to properly investigate Pickton in 1997, is now at the centre of a public inquiry in Vancouver. The inquiry into the failed Pickton investigation has been boycotted by 20 of the 21 groups who were granted standing due to the denial of adequate funding for legal defense.

Pickton, who was convicted for six murders, has admitted to killing 49 women. 

The Committee to End Discrimination Against Women at the United Nations has accepted submissions put forward by advocates of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES), as well as the Native Women's Association of Canada, and announced their intent to launch an inquiry into Canada's missing and murdered Indigenous women.

We come together in solidarity with the women who started this vigil over 20 years ago in Vancouver's DTES. 

We stand in defense of our lives and to demonstrate against the complicity of the state in the ongoing genocide of Indigenous women and the impunity of state institutions that prevents justice for all Indigenous peoples. 

Laura Lush & Ariel Gordon on Motherhood

Thursday, November 3 · 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Toronto Women's Bookstore, 73 Harbord St.

Laura Lush will be reading and signing her newly released poetry collection, Carapace. 

At times, these poems are told through the eyes of a new mother as she attempts to balance the complex and often conflicting emotions that accompany motherhood: 

joy, anger, uncertainty, awe and fear. At other times, they are told through the eyes 

of a bereft narrator as she comes to grip with death and loss. 

Ariel Gordon will also be reading from her poetry collection Hump, which recently won the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Hump is a mash-up of pregnancy-and-mothering poems that functions as an anti-sentiment manifesto. Month by month, stanza by stanza, Gordon attempts to adequately represent the wonder and devilment of being-with-child.

Benefit Concert For Africa

The Lyric Theatre, Assinoboine Park

Sunday, August 28 · 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Brothers Rana and Syed Bokhari have planned a benefit concert.

Join them at a "CONCERT FOR AFRICA" 

**Sponsored by Hot 103** 

The world is dealing with one of the most devastating humanitarian crisis we have seen in a very long time.  Step up Winnipeg and show your support! 

Come out and enjoy music by DJ Co-Op, Flo, Manitoba's own R&B phenomenon, as well as the lead singer of Magnum KI, Ismaila Alfa, The Black Out City Kids and After Party!

Other entertainment including dancers and drummers....and much more! 

Thank you to all of these bands for donating their time!

100% of donations to MCC, who will be onsite to collect all donations.

Volunteers needed to help out that day!

Also sponsors and acts! 

If you want to be a part of this event

Call 951-0150 or email Rana 

Call 619-1934 or email Syed 

Listen for more details on Hot 103! 

HUGE THANKS TO:

Hot 103 Ace Burpee & Amber Saleem

SOUNDART for donating all the sound equipment (Peter Petrovich)

UMSU (Stage Sponsors)

Larry Vickar & Vickar Community Chevrolet

Sierra Leone Refugee Resettlement Inc.@ Peter Koroma (Stage sponsors)

Robson Hall Students (Volunteers)

Peak of The Market

Bob Axworthy, Inner City Junior Wesmen 

Lloyd Axworthy, President and Vice-Chancellor of U of W

If you are in Toronto and want to be a part of this event contact Ameera Ameerullah.

Huge thanks to Ameera for taking care of the Toronto part of this event!

G20 protester Jaggi Singh

Callout for court support: G20 protester Jaggi Singh facing six-month prison sentence 

Tuesday, June 21, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm

Old City Hall Court, 60 Queen Street West, Room M1

Toronto

phone - 514-848-7583 or 416-708-3195 (for in court updates)

follow on twitter - @g20mobilize or @CLACmontreal

If your group would also like to write a public support letter, or endorse an existing one, please contact the CLAC in Montreal.  We are collecting public support letters until Saturday, June 18.

For background to the court hearing:

- Crown demands harsh sentence for G20 activist (NOW Toronto)

- The Jaggi Singh trial from inside the courtroom (rabble.ca)

- Crown seeks six months for G20 protester (Toronto Star)

- AUDIO: On taking down fences and the criminalization of dissent: An interview with Jaggi Singh (rabble.ca)

- The plea agreement.

If Jaggi receives prison time, he will be taken into custody immediately on June 21.

Jaggi, a member of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence (CLAC) and No One Is Illegal-Montreal, has technically pled guilty to “counselling to commit mischief over $5000”.

As part of the plea agreement between the Crown and Jaggi: 

i) the Crown will not call Jaggi as a witness in any G20-related case

ii) Jaggi’s plea cannot be used by the Crown in any other G20 prosecutions

iii) Jaggi will offer no cooperation to the Crown or the police

iv) Jaggi will offer no apologies for his actions and words

v) the entirety of the agreement will be public and not subject to any publication ban. 

276 letters were submitted to the judge during his April sentencing hearing in support of Jaggi. Many letter-writers indicated their full support for Jaggi’s words at the fence, and expressed agreement that the G20 security fence should have been removed. All letter-writers have urged the judge to impose a minimal sentence.

As well, many more individuals and other groups from all over Quebec, Canada, the USA and overseas have submitted letters of support.

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Contribute:

- "The G20 Legal Fund considers that all arrests occurred in the context of a legitimate struggle against the capitalist policies of the G20, and that all charges should be dropped immediately."

- The G20 Legal Defence Fund (Toronto)

Susie Moloney: The Thirteen

Join Susie in celebrating the launch of her newest novel The Thirteen!

The Witches of Eastwick meets Desperate Housewives in Susie Moloney's The Thirteen, her new and long-awaited novel. 

Haven Woods is suburban heaven, a great place to raise a family. It's close to the city, quiet, with great schools and its own hospital right up the road. The crime rate is practically non-existent, unless you count the odd human sacrifice, dismemberment, animal attack, demon rape, and blood atonement. 

When Paula Wittmore goes home to Haven Woods to care for a suddenly ailing mother, she brings her daughter and a pile of emotional baggage. She also brings the last chance for twelve of her mother's closest frenemies, who like to keep their numbers at thirteen. And her daughter, young, innocent, is a worthy gift to the darkness.

A circle of friends will support you through bad times. 

A circle of witches can drag you through hell.

Globe and Mail/Ben McNally Books Authors' Brunch

Sunday, June 5, 10:00 am

King Edward Hotel

37 King St. East

Toronto, ON  M5C 1E9

Tickets $45.00 (taxes included).

Please call (416) 361-0032 with your credit card to reserve a ticket.

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The Chiaroscuro Reading Series and Random House will co-host

Tuesday, June 7, 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm

The Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst, Toronto

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Thursday, June 9

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

McNally Robinson, Grant Park, in Prairie Ink Restaurant

Susie Moloney, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Canadian author of horror fiction.

She has been published in numerous countries and assorted languages. She divides her time between the wild prairies of Manitoba and the wild world of New York City. 

She's not a witch, except maybe a little in the morning.    

The film rights to her book, A Dry Spell, were purchased by Cruise/Wagner Productions 

in 1997, for a reported seven figures.

She has also written:

• Bastion Falls (1995)

• The Dwelling (2003)

Susie has been compared to both Stephen King and Dave Barry.  To which she responds: "I'll know I'll have truly arrived when someone is the male Susie Moloney."

Susie was named one of Mcleans Magazine's "100 Canadians to Watch."