Culture

Canadian writer Andrew Smith chronicles his efforts at self-publishing

Kamran Aryah investigates whether wax will wane.

Dan Walber dives into the image + nation film festival

“So the shaping spirit of work / can make a town…” This sentiment, expressed by Montreal poet Louis Dudek about his hometown, is particularly evident… Read More »Under the Olympian shadow

Dance company puts the young and the old on stage together to tackle issues relating to age

Lickety Split has earned a reputation for always doing things a little differently. Named Expozine’s Best English Zine in 2008, Montreal’s favourite smut zine has… Read More »Finger-lickin’ good smut

Victorian-era concerns find contemporary relevance in TNC’s Miss Julie

Montreal’s revival of a centuries-old sexy performance art

Writers Out Loud discussion pays homage to the now defunct Double Hook Bookstore

Player’s Theatre stages Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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… Read More »Cinematic SPASMs

Torontonian filmmakers score a gross-out hit with You Might As Well Live

There are few things so pleasurable as guiltlessly eating a cheap and filling meal. For a starving student such as myself, quantity often precedes quality… Read More »The salty, simple taste of cheap

Perhaps Francis Ducharme and Sophie Dales discovered their penchant for the provocative over the course of their work with choreographer Dave St-Pierre. The local actor/dancer… Read More »Dancing all over love

Buskers start to organize at Berri-UQAM