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Jordan Ross

@jordanross.bsky.social
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Winnipeg writer, reader, and book reviewer. linktr.ee/jordan.ross.to.go

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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Reviewed the new book by tennis writer Matthew Futterman in today’s @winnipegfreepress.com 🎾 www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
winnipegfreepress.com
Veteran sportswriter Matthew Futterman uncovers the many pitfalls of professional tennis
Why does tennis drive so many of its top athletes mad, leading some to quit at the peak of their career? Matthew Futterman explores this question after several years of full-time tennis writing for th...
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Really great @doctorow.pluralistic.net author talk tonight hosted by @mcnallyrobinson.com. His closing remarks on joining a polity reminded me of these John K. Samson lyrics. “I’m going outside, I’m gonna help organize / Something better / Something beautiful” Full song: youtu.be/E-z9djgthqE?...
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stoked that Bill Callahan will play WECC as part of Winterruption in January. www.winterruptionwpg.ca
winterruptionwpg.ca
Winterruption 2027
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nice to see Catch the Devil by @pamelacolloff.bsky.social win the 2026 Kirkus Prize for nonfiction. ICYMI, here’s my review of this extraordinary book ⤵️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
winnipegfreepress.com
Catch the Devil follows serial con man preying on victims along the Gulf Coast — then repatedly duping law enforcement
The debut book from Pamela Colloff, a Texas-based investigative reporter for ProPublica and staff writer for the New York Times Magazine, complicates romantic notions of the scam artist and invites re...
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Excellent piece
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Great piece! I always enjoy Robbie Koenig on the mic. His enthusiasm is infectious. You can tell he just really loves the game, and taking people inside of it.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wonderful job on this piece, Melissa.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great piece on my least favourite Slam (which I’ve nevertheless been watching daily).
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A riotously funny obituary. Gloup! Gloup! Gloup! 🥧 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/w...
nytimes.com
Noël Godin, Prankster Who Threw Pies at the Powerful, Dies at 80 (Gift Article)
Splattering figures like Bill Gates, Jean-Luc Godard and Bernard-Henri Lévy, he perfected the art of using whipped cream as a form of protest.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I became a dad on Wednesday! The care at HSC Women’s Hospital was exceptional. Shout out to the staff there, who were so kind and professional and patient and informative. Our little one couldn’t have asked for a better start.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Great op-ed. At the other three majors, “tickets either cannot be resold, or can be resold only for amounts close to face value. The result is less expensive tickets, lower profits for middlemen and happier fans.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | The U.S. Open Can’t Go On Like This (Gift Article)
It’s the most lucrative tennis tournament in the world. Hmm.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
RIP Wendell Berry, who did not mince words about his time in a military boarding school. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
Obituary clipping: A rebellious teenager, Wendell was sent to Millersburg Military Institute, a boarding school near Lexington. He hated it. “The highest aim,” he recalled, “was to produce a perfectly obedient, militarist, puritanical moron who could play football.”
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Stoked for this one.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The first Dylan album I bought on release day. 💿 Thunder on the Mountain is one of my favourite album openers. Gets me every time.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Reviewed the new book by investigative reporter @pamelacolloff.bsky.social in today’s @winnipegfreepress.com www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
winnipegfreepress.com
Catch the Devil follows serial con man preying on victims along the Gulf Coast — then repatedly duping law enforcement
The debut book from Pamela Colloff, a Texas-based investigative reporter for ProPublica and staff writer for the New York Times Magazine, complicates romantic notions of the scam artist and invites re...
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP Tim Curry. “Muppet Treasure Island” and “Clue” are embedded in my childhood memories.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Like five terrific albums in a row now from these guys. Incredible
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ice cream fiends of Winnipeg—where I can I get a chocolate malt? Sargent Sundae no longer serves them (their supplier has cut them off, they say).
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Last Summer is great. New View is probably my favourite. A cracking band on that one too.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Please, please let the 13th candidate for mayor of Winnipeg be a baker. We need the ‘baker’s dozen’ headlines.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This NYT op-ed, by a former CIO at Lululemon, makes a great chaser to the Doctorow interview:
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Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess. (Gift Article)
The A.I. revolution is stalling because companies don’t want to admit that integrating the technology is expensive and slow and requires human effort.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Excellent interview with the always insightful Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net. Well worth your time ⤵️
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Great op-ed by the CMHR CEO: Palestinian Canadian stories belong
winnipegfreepress.com
Opinion: Palestinian Canadian stories belong
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Doctorow is my favourite On the Media guest.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Loved this piece. Great photos, and great insights on the creative process.
newyorker.com
A Celebrity Photographer’s Hidden Stash of Polaroids
For two decades, Emily Shur, who shot for glossy magazines in the early 2000s, has been sitting on a trove of images from a bygone era of fame.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A moving story, told well by @benwaldman.bsky.social. Tough to read about the ordeal Jacob went through. I enjoy his music and I’m looking forward to his new album and his Folk Fest performances.
winnipegfreepress.com
Songwriter reckons with past, present on new album
Grab a kitchen scale and you’ll quickly see that Jacob Brodovsky’s newest LP is exactly the same weight as his last one, but Tell the Kids We Tried is still the heaviest music released by the singer-s...
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
“A Snapchat strategy document referred to classroom phone use as ‘under the desk’ time.”
nytimes.com
‘Teachers Are Going to Hate It’: How Social Media Apps Hooked Teens at School
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
“And just in case I don’t see ya—good afternoon, good evening, and good night.”
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
An unforgettable piece.
newyorker.com
The Paperboy’s Secret
In boyhood, guilt was a constant companion. I stopped mentioning the quarters that Mr. Wood put into my pocket.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Well, this was prescient!
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Dang. RIP Half Pints 🙁 Stir Stick Stout and Lil Scrapper got me into craft beer.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
*centred on
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Need more listens but likely to be my Album of the Year. Songwriting, lyrics, production are all top-tier. Also, kinda hard to describe, but as a whole just so uplifting and humane and generous and warm.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Quite the birding anecdote in the New Yorker’s interview with a passenger on the hantavirus cruise.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Amy’s recent career-spanning interview on NPR’s On the Media is also very good.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Nice to see Jill Lepore win a Pulitzer. Here’s my favourite New Yorker piece from her, from 2019.
newyorker.com
The Lingering of Loss
My best friend left her laptop to me in her will. Twenty years later, I turned it on and began my inquest.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Great piece by @jennpelly.bsky.social (and finally, some justice Highway Companion, which lived in my first car’s CD player). All three advance singles from Little Wide Open point to it being the album Morby was born to make. Very excited for this one.
pitchfork.com
Life & Death in Kevin Morby’s Midwest
On the eve of fatherhood, Kevin Morby is celebrating a life less haunted. We visit the singer-songwriter at his home outside Kansas City to drink some beers, talk about his sprawlingly intimate new al...
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
For today’s Winnipeg Free Press Books section, I reviewed #LondonFalling, the new one from @praddenkeefe.bsky.social. I wrote 600 words but I really only needed five: He’s done it again, folks!
winnipegfreepress.com
Late teen’s dealings with London’s criminal underworld unpacked in riveting, remarkable account
Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
What about Better Than Ezra tho
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Great thread here by The New Yorker’s Michael Schulman 👇
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Hun, come quick, the New York Times is writing about pluma moos
cooking.nytimes.com
This Old-Fashioned Dish Deserves a Place on Your Easter Table
Pluma moos, a rich, jammy side made from dried fruit, has long accompanied holiday ham and potatoes for Mennonite families in Kansas.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I’m a huge fan of Cass McCombs, one of the best Folk Fest sets I’ve ever seen. I recently made an Apple Music playlist of all my fav Cass cuts: music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...
music.apple.com
Choice Cuts o’ Cass by Jordan Ross on Apple Music
Playlist · 21 Songs
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Good piece that illuminates a few things.
hazlitt.net
Lay It Down | Hazlitt
People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Fantastic interview.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Fantastic match between Sinner and Fonseca just now. Two nervy sets. Great tennis.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Paging Chumbawamba
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Only now noticing Hannah Cohen’s name in the 2026 @winnipegfolkfest.bsky.social lineup. She put out a great record last year called Earthstar Mountain. Light, airy chamber folk. Think Andy Shauf via Laurel Canyon.
music.apple.com
Earthstar Mountain by Hannah Cohen on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 10 Songs
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Fun story about Stu Reid, who is at every concert I attend, and always with better seats.
ctvnews.ca
‘A historical document of live music’: Winnipeg man makes mark with poster designs over the years
Stu Reid, a self-described “semi-professional music nerd,” turned his passion for graphic design and illustration into a career that allowed him to design posters for bands and artists coming through ...
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
At last! Great news.
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Jordan Ross @jordanross.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
If anyone needs me I will be listening to this on repeat.
youtu.be
MUTINY AFTER MIDNIGHT
YouTube video by Johnny Blue Skies
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