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Babenco’s The Past has all of the elements, but doesn’t work

Music brought Fab and Frannie together when they bumped into each other at a concert a few years ago. The pair bonded over similar musical… Read More »Serendipitous sounds: Montreal’s Random Recipe

A flashing plastic owl, a children’s toy piano and two Arts students – Daily staffer Joshua Frank and Yannick Kuch – were the musical highlights… Read More »Urban Joseph make noise with guitars and Chinese toys

De Salvo and Fogwill’s film Kept and Dreamless is visually pleasant, if a bit vapid

Vancouver slam poetry group hosts a musical orgy – complete with handclaps, banjo and melodica

Chromeo likes to refer to themselves as “the only successful Arab/Jewish collaboration in history,” according to Wikipedia. The tongue-in-cheek comparison is a testament to the… Read More »Chromeo: eighties homage and pure humour

Janet Werner’s saccharine sweet portraits confront us with modern takes on the feminine “ideal”

Radio-Enfant puts disenfranchised Montreal children

Art workshops for children at the Musée d’art contemporain are fun but imaginatively restrictive

Documentary filmmaker Avi Mograbi takes on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with a measure of bombast, style, and effrontery

Wearing conversation-arousing garments to a FIFA screening is like wearing a Jane’s Addiction t-shirt to Lollapalooza. At Púbol – Dalí De-construction, one middle-aged woman seated… Read More »Deconstucting Picasso, delegitimizing Warhol: a look at the FIFA festival

For all you Canadians who grew up with “The Cat Came Back” and “Happy Feet,” Fred Penner’s Place is a childhood memory that will no… Read More »Child entertainment legend Fred Penner makes a comeback…at Gert’s

This Wednesday, TVMcGill presents the follow-up to last year’s much- talked-about Fokus Film Festival. The screening will feature a variety of student-made short films, ranging… Read More »The Fokus Film Festival: beautiful, sublime, peculiar

I’m a bit of a germaphobe. Like, when I’m talking to someone, and I notice they’re sniffling just a bit too much, I’ll ask them… Read More »The Hipless Boy: You could give it to me