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Meet Möe: Bringing Poetry To Life

Möe Clark, Poet-In-Residence, Westmount High

by Jaime Haraldson
03.03.2010

Since the beginning of February, poet/spoken-word artist Möe Clark has been performing and collaborating in an unusual venue: Westmount High. She is the Poet-in-Residence there, working with students on their own pieces and performances, teaching them what it means to be an artist and introducing them to the tools of the trade.

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Laughing Matters

Improv Tuesday, Comedy Nest

by James Gartler
15.12.2009

It is often said there’s no better medicine than the healing power of laughter. The stars of Montreal Improv certainly agree. Tonight, they take the stage at Ernie Butler’s Comedy Nest for their final Improv Tuesday of 2009, with all proceeds benefitting Child’s Play – a charity that brings toys to hospitalized children. To help [...]

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Novel Renovations

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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Celebrating Raw Talent & Energy

Expozine, Église Saint-Enfant Jésus

by Danijel Matijević
21.11.2009

In the words of the organizers, Expozine, Montreal’s Annual Small Press, Comic and Zine Fair, “was created to help the small press community and local writers and artists meet each other and reach new readers.” Sounds simple and tame. But these tidy descriptions don’t really cut it. Expozine is raw.

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Lessons From The Lama

Dalai Lama, Bell Centre

by Sarah Fletcher
05.10.2009

Before an audience of 14,000 at the Bell Centre on Saturday, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama gave a talk entitled “Educating the Heart: The Power of Compassion”. Hungry for wisdom and inspiration, the crowds sat hushed and waiting, perhaps, for something sensational. What they got was a down-to-earth talk from a man of simple [...]

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Dynamic Imprinting

MOIS DE LA PHOTO, various venues

by Lori Callaghan
02.10.2009

Stealer of souls and fodder of the paparazzi, the photograph has had a huge impact on our lives. From advertising and ID cards to family portraits and crime scene pictures, there’s no denying its usefulness. As a fine art form, photography continues to evolve as a dynamic medium. This is nowhere better illustrated than in [...]

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Letter to Lenny

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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The Art Of Making People Happy

ROMERO BRITTO, CEDARS CANCER HEROES NIGHT

by Lori Callaghan
11.09.2009

Chagall, Warhol and Picasso are some of the names mentioned by critics when discussing the works of Romero Britto. His cubist, pop art style evokes a jubilant playfulness with its bright colours, simple lines and geometrical shapes. Dismissed by some as too commercial, his works are unapologetically optimistic and full of warmth. He arrives in [...]

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Montreal’s Italians Get Literate

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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Friday 12.03.2010

Blogs
Marianne Ackerman
- Riding The Wave To MECCA 09.03.2010
  Is it just me, or are Montreal theatre artists riding a new wave of excellence? The Montreal English Critics Circle Awards (MECCA) seems to […]
Noah Richler
- The Writing Life (5): “The Writer as Athlete (and Not)” 03.03.2010
  A rough patch: all those January plans and nothing adding up. No money coming in, no big thoughts, not even small ones that are all that int […]
Daniel Weinstock
- An Elegy for Joey 14.02.2010
  I only saw the Ramones live once, at the late and unlamented Plateau Auditorium. It was the day of my 17th birthday, and my girlfriend had s […]
Claude Lalumière
- The Films of 2009 #5: My Top 10 05.03.2010
  Counting down to my favourite film of 2009… 10. Jennifer’s Body directed by Karyn Kasuma; written by Diablo Cody; starring Megan Fox & A […]
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At the Dièse Onze Jazz Club tonight, yet another double bill with Les 2 Guitares, followed by the Yannick Rieu Quartet ... The Joel Miller Quartet, featuring Matt Wilson, is at Upstairs while the ever-present Taurey Butler joins up with the DTW Jazz Trio at House of Jazz ... Stay tuned tomorrow for the third of the special three-part dialogic session with Professor Norman Cornett, featuring world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Ivar Mendez ... [more]