Glorious Grimes
Last Thursday night, Club Soda rollicked to ex-McGill neuroscience student Grimes’ ethereal dream-pop, darkly catchy stuff with high-pitched and often-incoherent lyrics breathed over vintage-toned synth… Read More »Glorious Grimes
Culture
Winnie’s Story
The postcolonial growth of Canada and the United States has followed separate and distinct paths, and as such, it is sometimes all too easy to… Read More »Winnie’s Story
Urbana hits the city
Cameras and phones of all makes are hoisted high above the sea of alternative hairstyles: partially shaved heads, candy-coloured dye jobs, and more dreadlocks than… Read More »Urbana hits the city
Making space for creativity
One of Montreal’s finest private galleries, the DHC Art Foundation impressed the city’s art community in 2007, when it was opened at its Old Montreal… Read More »Making space for creativity
Pop Montreal
Austra Originally from Toronto, Austra formed in 2009 and quickly developed a sound entirely their own. Relying on heavy synths, fast paced beats, and opera-trained… Read More »Pop Montreal
Humour as defiance
She’s mounted side-saddle on an enormous alligator, chest bare, dark hair fluttering in the breeze, feet adorned with strappy, high-heeled sandals in a fetching shade… Read More »Humour as defiance
Fests-de-fall II
Cinemania Didn’t manage to attend Cannes this year? Adding to the city’s rich film-festival lineup, Cinemania showcases the best francophone films from the past year.… Read More »Fests-de-fall II
UnderwHELMing
My first experience at HELM Brasseur Gourmand was in early May for an end-of-the-year celebration for a student publication. Located at Parc and Bernard, I lived… Read More »UnderwHELMing
Death by a thousand words
Whilst many may think of live readings as dry affairs, attended solely by stuffy literati, the Literary Death Match series spins this conception on its… Read More »Death by a thousand words
Fests-de-Fall
Autumn activities to illuminate your semester
Inter-tribal Youth Centre in jeopardy
Mikinak Co-operative faces budget crisis with artistic solution
Selective secularism
The new Parti Québécois (PQ) minority government, elected on Tuesday and led by Pauline Marois, has a specific vision for the development of culture in… Read More »Selective secularism
Inkwell: Old Shakes
I. I read today that the better a man dresses the more badly he can behave. I was fourteen and standing by the water the… Read More »Inkwell: Old Shakes
Performing Dissent
On February 21, five members of Russian feminist protest-punk band Pussy Riot performed a “Punk Prayer” in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. With colourful… Read More »Performing Dissent
Still reeling
Montreal’s World Film Festival (WFF), the city’s premiere international cinema event, finishes on Monday, September 3. Far removed from the international glamour of the Toronto… Read More »Still reeling