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Break a leg Sweaty palms? Shaky voice? Mind gone blank? If you’ve ever auditioned for a play, you’ll recognize these symptoms not as the warning… Read More »Culture Briefs

The World Press Photo Exhibition makes detachment impossible

Studio photography pays homage to the Japanese Canadian experience

Rapid-fire art analysis Twenty images, and 20 seconds per image – this is the only guideline for the ten specialists presenting at next Wednesday’s Pecha… Read More »Culture Brief

Matthew Forsythe’s graphic novel Ojingogo rethinks the relationship between words and images

Conservative government cuts $48.5-million from federal arts funding

We are the voiceless generation that has yet to do something genuinely new to define itself – so the argument goes. Enter Terrence, a man-child… Read More »Who is KK Downey?: hipster comedy hits home

[Correction appended] “If you erase the people of downtown America, the effect is bizarre, not to say disturbing… the familiar urban landscape without a soul… Read More »Wide urban spaces

A summer spent searching for the spirit of the city

Annual film series at the Goethe Institut places contemporary German film in dialogue with the country’s cinematic past

Montreal’s Throw Slam Poetry Collective merges camaraderie and competition

Amelia Schonbek delves into the dance scene in The Daily’s final installment on Montreal tastemakers

Montreal chef Nantha Kumar spices things up at Plateau restaurant Cash and Curry

Patricia Pearson’s personal narratives won’t put your mind at ease

Talk of the Montreal indie sound that pioneered in the early 2000s by bands such as The Unicorns has been rendered acutely obsolete. Online dissemination… Read More »We come in peace: Montreal’s Alien8 recordings