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Michael Mirolla

FILM

The Butterfly Effect

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Bruco, Cinémathèque québécoise

by Michael Mirolla
14.01.2010

“A poet friend told me an artist is independent when no one is able to make money off of him. There is no way someone will ever make money with Bruco.” Those are the words of Antonio D’Alfonso, writer, editor, publisher, filmmaker and general all-around gadfly whose first feature-length movie, shown last fall at the [...]

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EVENTS

Novel Renovations

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The Fixer-Upper, Lorne Elliott book launch

by Michael Mirolla
10.12.2009

Hudson’s Lorne Elliott has toiled most of his adult life trying to make people laugh – and succeeding splendidly. Stand-up comic, writer/performer of satiric and impious songs, creator of landmark Quebec plays such as Culture Shock, producer of TV variety shows, and long-time host of CBC radio’s sadly missed Madly Off In All Directions, Elliott [...]

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BOOKS

The Erotic Theology of the Fantastic

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Objects of Worship, Claude Lalumière, ChiZine Publications

by Michael Mirolla
26.10.2009

Gods. Sea monsters. Symbiotes. Superheroes. Angels. Zombies. Shapeshifters.

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THEATRE

No Thinking, Per Piacere

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In Piazza San Domenico, Centaur Theatre

by Michael Mirolla
07.10.2009

Steve Galluccio will forgive just about anything – except being bored. Ex-stand-up comic, fringe theatre actor-director-producer, TV and film script writer, and the man behind the mega-hit play and movie Mambo Italiano, Galluccio won’t put up with ennui. In fact, the writer whose In Piazza San Domenico is set to open at Centaur has been [...]

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EVENTS

Letter to Lenny

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Tributes to Leonard Cohen, Westmount High & Atwater Library

by Michael Mirolla
16.09.2009

Hey, Lenny … may I call you “Lenny”? Did you hear your hometown is putting together several events, including a gala evening, to honour your 75th year on this earth? And launching a book in which 75 top-notch poets (including Margaret Atwood) tell us poetically how you’ve affected them? While celebrating your three-quarter-century mark is [...]

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TRENDS

Boosting That Creative Spark

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Streams of Consciousness, Creative Boost

by Michael Mirolla
31.08.2009

Ex-McGill Professor Norman Cornett is not a person to stand still. The man behind the Creative Boost concept, which encompasses a whole range of exhibitions, artists’ residencies, and arts and language courses, has put in motion his most ambitious project yet: the “Streams of Consciousness” literature, music and visual arts series designed to help stimulate [...]

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EVENTS

Montreal’s Italians Get Literate

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Settimana Italiana Literary Activities, Little Italy

by Michael Mirolla
14.08.2009

The Settimana Italiana has been a tradition in Montreal for the last 16 years with activities ranging from folklore groups, orchestras, operas, sports events, comedians, automotive exhibits, photography and art exhibitions, a circus, and guided tours of Little Italy. For the second year running, the Settimana will also feature prose and poetry readings in three [...]

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BOOKS

More Fantasy than Speculation

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Tesseracts Twelve, edited by Claude Lalumière, Edge Publishing

by Michael Mirolla
07.06.2009

Partly in an effort to escape the genre “ghetto” and partly to reach out beyond the formula of the space opera, science fiction has reinvented itself to encompass more and more types of speculative writing — to the point where even “speculative fiction” is no longer able to act as a definitive umbrella. In Tesseracts [...]

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OUR MAN IN TORONTO

Noah Richler Comes to Rover

by Michael Mirolla
13.03.2009

Noah Richler opens his Rover account with an appropriate comparison between his adopted city of Toronto and Montreal, the city where he grew up. Noah’s column will make a regular appearance on Rover and we’re proud to call him one of our own. No matter where he happens to reside. So check out his first [...]

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