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Rover à Go Go

Rover kicks off our first ever fundraising campaign

by Marianne Ackerman
17.04.2012

Forty-five days. That’s how long Rover’s first-ever IndieGoGo fundraising campaign will be calling on readers and friends for contributions. Not just begging, either. We’ve got some pretty juicy prizes and rewards for those who give.

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A City Sees Red

Students hold massive rally downtown

by Sujata Dey
23.03.2012

On Thursday, as the student rally filled Montréal’s downtown core, one by one, we all became students: the adorable daycare kids with their painted red thumbs pushed against the window, the ice cream vendor in his 50s riding his bicycle with a red square and even the marketing geniuses, whether it be Urban Outfitters, or others, targeting their youth market.

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Animations and Attitudes

Previewing AmérAsia's Artist Talk on Animation with filmmaker Jonathan Ng

by James Gartler
09.03.2012

As the AmérAsia Film Festival enters into its final weekend of screenings, a special panel tonight will bring the discussion back to the painstaking process called “animation” and the artists who remain captivated by its endless possibilities. Among those attending will be local filmmaker/visionary Jonathan Ng, who offers ROVER a glimpse of what the evening has [...]

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Nerf Guns and New Lit

Maisonneuve Magazine teams up with Literary Death Match to revitalize the literary reading, with guns and cupcakes

by Meaghan Thurston
10.10.2011

Literary Death Match is poised to deliver a beat down to Montreal’s writing scene tomorrow night at La Sala Rossa. If you’re not tapped into the death match movement you are not alone, but the event’s popularity is growing worldwide. When author, radio host and to-be LDM judge Jonathon Goldstein and I chatted about the [...]

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Nerds Unite!

Fans freak out over Adam West, Buffy baddies, and the Batmobile at Montreal Comiccon

by Andrea Elalouf
30.09.2011

Two weekends ago, Place Bonaventure was turned in to the mecca of science fiction, fantasy, comic book, film and TV culture; prompting self-proclaimed fanboys and girls to come out in drones, dressed up and ready to geek out over celebrity panelists, really cool toys and…the Batmobile! Excited shrieks rang through the concrete halls – Montreal [...]

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Stepping into the Spotlight

ELAN's State of the Arts Summit celebrates the achievements and diversity of Montreal's Anglo arts community

by Anna Fuerstenberg
22.09.2011

This Thursday and Friday, the State of the Arts Summit, presented by the English Language Arts Network (ELAN), will bring together the creative talents and cultural professionals from Quebec’s English-speaking arts community to analyse the issues driving our community’s successes. They will discuss this community’s contributions to the province, and will celebrate the artistic diversity [...]

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Born This Gay

Sparkling community spirit steals the spotlight from the corporations at this year's Pride Parade

by Todd Kingston Plummer
16.08.2011

The Pride celebrations came to a close on Sunday with the Pride Parade, a four-hour-long spectacle spanning the downtown core and concluding in the Village. Community groups and big-business sponsors alike marched through the streets, and the tension between Pride’s grassroots commitments and corporate ties was palpable.

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Questions for Kevin

Is Kevin Smith really retiring from filmmaking?

by James Gartler
14.08.2011

Kevin Smith has a lot to answer for. If it wasn’t bad enough that he backed out of his planned Fantasia appearance last month, he’s also claiming the time has nearly come to retire from filmmaking altogether. Tonight, at a screening of his controversial (and penultimate?) oeuvre Red State, Silent Bob’s fans will be expecting [...]

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High Praise for Infringing on Buffalo

Montreal-inspired festival scores.

by Marianne Ackerman
12.08.2011

We’ve said it before and let’s say it again: Montreal is the capital of creative ideas. Latest proof: success of this year’s Infringement Festival in Buffalo, USA. A spin-off of our own great event!

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Rare Playwriting Confab

Since Mama Done Get off the Couch, Black Theatre Workshop, Concordia University

by Alex Woolcott
20.05.2011

For all its artistic initiatives, Montreal doesn’t often play host to playwriting conferences, so it’s especially remarkable that Black Theatre Workshop is hosting Since Mama Done Get off the Couch, a seminar / workshop slated for May 27th and 28th at Concordia University. The conference is also unique as it will feature some of North [...]

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Underdog Charm And Crazy Animal Rites

David Sedaris, Théâtre Maisonneuve

by Megan Stewart
06.05.2011

David Sedaris strides confidently onstage, stands at the podium, and begins to tell a story about a cat and a baboon. His small, lilting voice matches his stature and his unassuming air. The cat goes to a hair salon and experiences the utter monotony and discomfort of having to interact with the baboon hairstylist, with [...]

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Tiny Bubbles

Miniscule Bière – Broue Pub Brouhaha

by Dan Ruppel
17.04.2011

Even in Montreal, it is rare to see a concept so utterly novel – and so deeply explored – as the musical degustations of the Minuscule project.

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Engulfed in Flames, Next Stop Montreal

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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Connecting Through Seismic Events

Readings From the Ring of Fire, Salon B

by Carole Thorpe
24.03.2011

Spring has no easy reckoning with earthquakes. Broken cities, broken villages. A tidepool forms on a new coastline and infant cells capture seawater. Sendai, Japan, and her sister villages call for help. Seawater drowns voices unable to call. Fragile songs of water, earth persist as a tsunami dies down. Friends, family are washed away or [...]

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Flea Market For The Arts

Puces Pop, Église St-Enfant-Jésus

by Crystal Chan
04.03.2011

Attention, Montreal lovers and hoarders: if you haven’t been to a Puces POP already, you’re missing out on many a special find. POP Montreal first organized a flea market for local artists in 2004; now, according to them, Puces POP is the organization’s most successful segment. These markets are a haven for those on the [...]

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