Unearthing memory
Artist José Luis Torres dishes the dirt on displacement and nostalgia
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Making nothing from something
Silvia Kolbowski’s reimagining of French New Wave classic lacks potency of the original
Revolution for the free love set
Musical at McGill challenges sixties ideals but remains upbeat
Show me more!
Quebec strip club film’s flat characters fail to inspire empathy
Beyond the evening news
Concordia film screenings put a human face on distant conflicts
Same old dystopia
Ryan Healey embraces the static at multimedia exhibit “No Signal”
La vie en rose, from Montreal to Manila
French chanteuse’s songs transcend language barriers in Piaf: Love Conquers All
Culture briefs
A baroque lunch date Nietzsche once declared that, “Without music, life would be an error.” If you want to infuse a bit of warmth into… Read More »Culture briefs
Living in the gutter, looking at the stars
Danny Boyle’s latest film finds romance in the harsh reality of Mumbai slums
Black and white, and political all over
Deconstructing the upper-middle-class myth of a post-racial society
A tale of two identities
Coming to terms with being a Lebanese Jew
When outsiders settle in
Christoph Hein’s novel Settlement probes questions of place, identity, and divided history
We built this city on theft ’n’ fraud
The moral ramifications of cultural re-appropriation in pop music
Culture brief: Cuaron’s provocative classic revisited
This Wednesday January 28, The Film Society will be hosting a free screening of Alfonso Cuaron’s Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) at 7 p.m. at… Read More »Culture brief: Cuaron’s provocative classic revisited
Unyama through the lens
Concordia students photograph a northern Ugandan refugee camp