Culture

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

Movies can enrich childhood novels, but recent efforts are often more interested in showing off special effects

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

The Oakland trio’s latest album takes what’s familiar and skews it enough to be interesting

Montreal children’s authors and illustrators struggle to transcend linguistic barriers

Caitlin Manicom kicks off The Daily’s four part series on cultural tastemakers in the city with a look at the music scene

Paranoid Park explores adolescent alienation – again