Dark little love songs
Julie Doiron’s fragile songs have the intimacy of a basement tape session
Culture
Gender and the invisible emperor
Visiting professors dish the dirt on Japanese hegemony
FOKUS film festival
TV McGill’s FOKUS film festival is back for a third year, with another colourful lineup of student submissions. This year’s festival has films in five… Read More »FOKUS film festival
An orchestral homage to the physics of light
Sam Shalabi reprises his latest epic composition
Culture Briefs
On the road Jack Kerouac and Vladimir Nabokov wrote about it. Bob Dylan sang its praises. David Lynch and Dennis Hopper made films in which… Read More »Culture Briefs
Rethinking raw concrete
Exploring the ideals behind brutalist architecture
Stuck on Shuffle: From Crystal Zimbabwolf to Sex Mammoth
The naming conventions of indie music – a primer
The saddest butcher of them all
Pascal Blanchet’s newest graphic novel merges music and melancholy
Putting women behind the lens
Local director and activist demands equitable public funding in Canadian film
Monsanto and the bad seeds
Green Week documentaries target food conglomerate and its genetically engineered crops
Laughing in the face of death
Pascal Girard’s autobiographical graphic novel pushes comic book boundaries
Taking life one couch at a time
The Daily investigates frugal living close to campus
Punishment, by skeletons
St. Henri artist uses gallows humour to condemn environmental degradation
Of mash-ups and remixes
Documentary charts the struggle over copyright
A history of blandness
Local play links politics with personal life, but ultimately disappoints