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Gettin’ Diverse in the City

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LGBT Culture Fest Divers/Cité heats up the downtown

by Catherine Averback
25.07.2011

All the heat in Montreal will definitely not be cooling down anytime soon as Divers/Cité, the infamous LGBT culture extravaganza, celebrates its 19th year this week. Montreal is about to flaunt its multicultural charm in a wild, fun, sexy, and all the while family-friendly blowout, packed into seven days of true Divers/Cité.

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All that glitters is comic gold

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Danny Bhoy’s “Wanderlust” lights up the Just For Laughs Festival

by Andrea Elalouf
23.07.2011

Strong from a year-long world tour, Scottish comedy wunderkind Danny Bhoy once again graces Montreal’s Just For Laughs with “Wanderlust,” a sharp and effortless show that will take you wandering back to Scotland, back in time, and back to those little memories that always manage to make you laugh.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Rivalry and Revelry, at the Back of the Bar

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Les Zyrgomatik put cousinly competition in the spotlight at Montréal Complètement Cirque

by Megan Stewart
22.07.2011

It’s a Tuesday night in an empty bar. Two cousins, with nothing better to do and nowhere else to go, are seated at a table. One looks certifiably insane, with electric-shock hair, beady eyes, and a twitch, while the other is droopy and melancholic. They are lucky to have each other.

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Simply Moss-some Photography

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Montreal camera queen Susan Moss offers gritty Osheaga retrospective

by Jamie O'Meara
21.07.2011

Susan Moss calls her own shots. And many a shot those are. The affable and genuinely lovely lady photographer has been a fixture on the Montreal concert scene for going on 20 years, visually chronicling the rise, the fall and the redemption of many of the most influential musicians ever to grace a Montreal stage.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Make Jokes, Not War

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Basic Training is a physical, profane, and poignant one-man-showstopper

by Meaghan Thurston
21.07.2011

It’s not stand-up comedy, but it’s funny. It’s a physical tour de force (if you’re sitting in the front row you’re likely to get hit with Ashanti’s sweat.) It’s profane. It’s a coming-of-age quest.

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Having the time of their lives, their whole lives

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Le Cirque Invisible, featuring wildly dynamic founders Victoria Chaplin and Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée, is yet another win for Montréal Complètement Cirque

by Megan Stewart
20.07.2011

For such a young festival, Montréal Complètement Cirque has been overwhelmingly successful in terms of this year’s programming, gathering together the most talented and innovative companies working in circus today. The ace up their sleeve this year is Le Cirque Invisible, a contemporary circus spectacular swathed in mystery, and created by two of the most [...]

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Feeling Cagey? Enter the Zoo

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Zoofest puts the spotlight on the wildest acts in alternative comedy and theatre

by Meaghan Thurston
19.07.2011

As a kid, the zoo was a place you went with your parents to have yourself gleefully photographed with a depressed elephant. The mangy, pacing lions were part of the charm. Not so any more. Following some rather vehement PETA campaigns, today the zoo is a place defined by more sinister connotations.

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FESTIVAL CITY

7 Doigts, Too Many Faces

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Les 7 doigts de la main’s Cabaret 2011 cracks under an identity crisis

by Shawn Katz
17.07.2011

Les 7 doigts de la main’s new Cabaret 2011 is a bizarre event, to say the least. Despite highly enjoyable moments and some frankly outstanding circus performances, the immense talents on display are ultimately betrayed by the show’s inescapable incoherence, which slices the performance right down the middle, into what are effectively two separate shows.

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Eat, Play, Love

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Ireland's Cirque de Légume reinvents the vegetable basket at Montréal Complètement Cirque

by Megan Stewart
16.07.2011

Leeks and chewed carrots are flying everywhere as the Horse of Spain gallops manically across the stage, finally collapsing into a twitching heap. The jockey looks upset. So she stands on top of him. “How about that?!” they proudly exclaim in unison, toppled over but with hands raised in perfect form.

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A Family Affair

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Le Chant du Dindon is circus for the whole family - even the pets

by Laura Freitag
15.07.2011

Some children have dreams of running away with the circus, while other children, of much better fortune, are born into it.  Rasposo is a family affair—they’re the company that produced Le Chant du Dindon or The Turkey Song.  Watching Le Chant du Dindon is much like entering into one family’s travelling circus act. 

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Exploring Fantasia

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Big names and hidden gems at Fantasia Film Fest

by James Gartler
14.07.2011

The organizers of the 15th edition of the Fantasia Film Festival want you to “be crazy, crazy explorers.”  Frankly, I’d take them up on it.  Fantasia crowds are famous for embracing all kinds of films, whether slasher, historical drama, screwball comedy or just plain absurd, and this festival has made a name for itself by [...]

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The Circus Goes Urban

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Australia’s Tom Tom Crew brings the bass to Montréal Complètement Cirque

by Shawn Katz
13.07.2011

This is not your father’s circus show; this one’s straight from the back alleys.  Australia’s hugely successful Tom Tom Crew, which first took the UK by storm at the 1997 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, has finally come to Montreal.

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Nuits d’Afrique comes of age

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African stars light up Montreal nights during 25th edition of the popular world music festival

by Richard Burnett
12.07.2011

Since its inaugural edition in 1987, the Festival International Nuits d’Afrique’s founding president and artistic director Lamine Touré has sought to establish Nuits d’Afrique on equal footing with Montreal’s bigger festivals. It hasn’t come easy.

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Circus in the Bachelor Pad

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Patinoire tumbles and swerves into success at Montréal Complètement Cirque

by Laura Freitag
12.07.2011

Everyone knows him.  He’s your eccentric, offbeat bachelor brother, or uncle, or someone’s best friend.  He has delusions of grandeur, he subjects people to quirky jokes and bad magic tricks, and he often gets far too drunk at family gatherings.  His clothes are ill fitting or come from a completely different decade altogether. 

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A Marvelous Playpen of Wonders

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Australian troupe C!RCA launches the second edition of Montréal Complètement Cirque

by Shawn Katz
11.07.2011

The young performers in C!RCA’s Wunderkammer are a lot like a group of bohemian loft mates. They like undressing each other. They like standing on each other’s shoulders. They like swinging each other through the air and tossing one friend to the next, much like an afternoon game of beach volleyball. Okay, so they’re not [...]

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