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Dear Leacock bake sale activists
Nicolas Boisvert-Novak • January 11, 2010
Though I may chide you for your tired imaginations, or the shoestring contributions you make to valuable causes, I still love you. I honestly appreciate the laboured dedication with which you attune the nature of my guilt from ethical to dietary. But the times they are a-changin’. No longer does… Read More
Cinematic SPASMs
Nicolas Boisvert-Novak • October 23, 2009
Feeling understandably cheated in the wake of the Festival du Nouveau Cinema’s barrage of art house filmmaking, cheap exploitation flick enthusiasts needn’t despair – there’s an entire festival out there for you. Taking place from October 22 through 31, this year’s edition of the SPASM film festival promises to serve… Read More
Bursting the bubble: Where everyone knows your name
Nicolas Boisvert-Novak • February 16, 2009
Thinking twice about the Outremont microcosm Read More
I could hate the sin, but never the theatre
Nicolas Boisvert-Novak • February 5, 2009
Murder most foul at Tuesday Night Café Theatre Read More
We built this city on theft ’n’ fraud
Nicolas Boisvert-Novak • January 26, 2009
The moral ramifications of cultural re-appropriation in pop music Read More
Democratic, expressive, expensive
Nicolas Boisvert-Novak • December 1, 2008
Public art provides fodder for a thousand Facebook albums Read More
Out of the bedroom and into the world
Nicolas Boisvert-Novak • November 20, 2008
Smut zine Lickety Split seeks to expand your sexual horizons Read More
Last night a b-boy saved my life
Nicolas Boisvert-Novak • November 6, 2008
A look into Montreal’s breakdancing underground Read More
New takes on urban dystopia
Nicolas Boisvert-Novak • October 30, 2008
Three photographers’ nostalgia for Montreal’s red-light district Read More
Music journalism is dead
Nicolas Boisvert-Novak • October 16, 2008
...long live music journalism Read More
A place to bury slander
Nicolas Boisvert-Novak • September 15, 2008
Brooklyn noisemakers build pedals, not songs Read More
No access to Asia at fusion fest
Nicolas Boisvert-Novak • April 7, 2008
Expat Asian artists fall short as cultural ambassadors of their motherlands Read More