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Burlesque life drawing class promotes positive body image

Running annually since the nineties, Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students’ Society (SACOMSS)’s art show “Fire with Water” seeks to douse the pain of sexual… Read More »Culture Brief: This zine is a safe space

Julie Doiron’s fragile songs have the intimacy of a basement tape session

Visiting professors dish the dirt on Japanese hegemony

Local director and activist demands equitable public funding in Canadian film

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

Sam Shalabi reprises his latest epic composition

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

Exploring the ideals behind brutalist architecture

The naming conventions of indie music – a primer

Pascal Blanchet’s newest graphic novel merges music and melancholy

St. Henri artist uses gallows humour to condemn environmental degradation

Documentary charts the struggle over copyright

Local play links politics with personal life, but ultimately disappoints

Crossover comic Scott Pilgrim tempers graphic violence with indie romance