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admin • January 29, 2009
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 the frigid Montreal week, there is a free organ concert taking place this Friday at Redpath Hall as part of the McGill Noon-hour Organ Recital… Read More
Stuck on shuffle: Pop culture’s whipping boy
Zachary Shuster • January 26, 2009
Vanilla Ice is back – reminding us why we never should have listened to him at all Read More
En ces lieux, vous faites quoi?
Hayley Lapalme • January 26, 2009
One family’s experience amongst northern Ontario’s forgotten francophonies Read More
Ex-cinema Ex-centris
admin • January 26, 2009
Curtains to close on Montreal’s art house theatre; a blow to the alternative film community Read More
Black and white, and political all over
Tiana Reid • January 26, 2009
Deconstructing the upper-middle-class myth of a post-racial society Read More
A tale of two identities
Vicky Tobianah • January 26, 2009
Coming to terms with being a Lebanese Jew Read More
When outsiders settle in
admin • January 26, 2009
Christoph Hein’s novel Settlement probes questions of place, identity, and divided history Read More
We built this city on theft ’n’ fraud
Nicolas Boisvert-Novak • January 26, 2009
The moral ramifications of cultural re-appropriation in pop music Read More
Culture brief: Cuaron’s provocative classic revisited
admin • January 26, 2009
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 3475 Peel. In the film, two teenage Mexican boys are looking forward to the pleasures of summer. They’ve just graduated from high school, and their… Read More
Unyama through the lens
Shannon Kiely • January 26, 2009
Concordia students photograph a northern Ugandan refugee camp Read More
Arias for the silver screen
admin • January 22, 2009
Local cinemas bring New York’s Metropolitan Opera to Montreal Read More
SynesthASIA makes you hear new colours and see new sounds
Thomas Kim • January 22, 2009
Looking for something different to do on a Saturday night? Interested in an event that combines fashion with Montreal’s great nightlife scene, all for a good cause? Then head out to Metropolis to see SynesthASIA, an Asia-inspired charity fashion show. With an expected audience of 2,000, this show promises to… Read More
Politics, faith, and toilet paper
Pamela Fillion • January 22, 2009
All subjects are poetic at the Throw Slam Collective Read More
Where words often fail
admin • January 22, 2009
“A Village United Against the Wall” uses photography to confront the devastation of conflict in the Middle East Read More
Half man, half cockroach
Jaime MacLean • January 15, 2009
Montreal’s Rawi Hage pens an existential award winner Read More