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Marianne Ackerman

EVENTS

Engulfed in Flames, Next Stop Montreal

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David Sedaris at Place des Arts, May 4

by Marianne Ackerman
14.04.2011

Does New York know something about Montreal we don’t? Or is AEG Live in for a shock after booking a writer into the 1441-seat Théâtre Maisonneuve? Okay, it’s David Sedaris, but … The best-selling essayist, humourist and popular radio personality has a big following on This American Life, available via CBC. But an English-speaking literary [...]

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THEATRE

The Drowsy Deli

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Schwartz’s The Musical, Centaur Theatre

by Marianne Ackerman
12.04.2011

Few theatrical events in recent memory have demonstrated the power to divide audiences quite like Schwartz’s The Musical, currently onstage at the Centaur. How much you like it – or don’t – tells a lot about who you are: how hip, how generous, how hungry for local laughs. 

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CRITICAL I

The Future of Culture in Montreal

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The Walrus McGill Debate at the Segal Centre

by Marianne Ackerman
31.03.2011

Is the Quartier des spectacles a Disneyland theme park or a brave new bid to solidify Montreal’s status as the cultural capital of Canada? NTS chief Simon Brault and architect Witold Rybczynski joined Nathalie Petrowski for a lively conversation about the subject at the Segal on Wednesday. Billed as a debate, it wasn’t, but interesting [...]

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CRITICAL I

Our Man in Mile End

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Federal Elections 2011

by Marianne Ackerman
28.03.2011

So, the leader of the Liberal Party decides to kick off his campaign in Mile End. Nine a.m., Sunday morning at Café Olimpico, Michael Ignatieff and a crowd of handlers/friends weren’t exactly lining up for latte. Clocking the swarm of suits milling around outside the door, an innocent passer-by might have figured a Mafioso funeral. [...]

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ART

Le buzz passe au Sud-Ouest

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Barry Allikas, Lines of Sight, Galerie Division

by Marianne Ackerman
25.03.2011

At key moments in art, it’s all about real estate. While performance decamps to Quartier des spectacles, a new visual arts scene pops up across the Ville Marie Expressway, first DHC/ART in Old Montreal, then Parisian Laundry on St. Antoine. Now Galerie Division’s new mega-project in Griffintown could lift Montreal’s contemporary art scene into the [...]

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NOTEBOOK

Yes Size Counts

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Supporting CanLit

by Marianne Ackerman
14.03.2011

Should Canadian publishers be allowed to sell off equity in search of capital? Instinctively, those of us who remember the invention of CanLit will say “No Way.” John Barber’s piece in The Globe and Mail makes a strong argument to the contrary. The total book market in Canada is a $2.8-million a year business, some [...]

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NOTEBOOK

The Other Tremblay

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A Montreal Event

by Marianne Ackerman
06.03.2011

The revival of Larry Tremblay’s 1995 bombshell, The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi, at Espace Go, has its fans and detractors. But once again, tout le monde en parle. Author some 18 books of essays, novels and plays, Tremblay grew up in Chicoutimi. His father cheered for the Chicago Black Hawks, which may well be the key [...]

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