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The charming guitar hooks of McGill’s Laurent Bourque

Dynamo Coléoptera channel bottomless energy into swirling surrealist performances

Show: Wefunk Hosts: Mike Lai & Nick Foster, a.k.a. DJ Static and Professor Groove Time: Friday nights from 12 a.m. to 2 a.m. A few… Read More »CKUT weekly pick

Whole lotta love Megalove, the band-about-town playing songs about love for everyone and everything, has had a pretty good run of it this year. Launched… Read More »Culture Brief: Whole lotta love

A new CTV documentary discusses the downfall of common decency

The Daily had a chat with Montrealer John Curtin, a journalist with 17 documentaries to his name, about his latest work, To Hell With Manners.

Over-the-hill orthographers shine at the monthly Mile End Spelling Bee

Brooklyn noisemakers build pedals, not songs

Migr@tions finds unity in the immigrant experience

Licensing puts copyright in the hands of artists

It is telling about the nature of Chet Baker’s fame that fashion photographer Bruce Weber first discovered the jazz legend not by hearing his music,… Read More »Culture brief: Embraceable Chet

The Daily’s Carly Shenfeld infiltrates Mont Royal’s role-playing community, foam weapon in hand

European cinema on the road and in the streets

Party on the poop deck for Montreal’s weird punks

As a third-grader, I voraciously consumed stacks of Sweet Valley High and Baby-sitter’s Club novels that I borrowed from the library on a weekly basis.… Read More »Culture Brief: Still Spellbound