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FESTIVALS

Feeding Those Baroque Wolves

Montreal Bach Festival

by Lev Bratishenko
28.11.2009

Bach is big. Musically, yeah? He’s gigantic that way. We don’t know exactly how big Bach the dude was, but the Montreal Bach Festival is definitely much smaller. Of course, it’s still something to be reckoned with (it is important to be clear when dealing with Germanic temperaments.)

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Queer Fest Spans Cinematic Rainbow

Image+Nation

by James Gartler
24.10.2009

Though our beloved Mount Royal may be sporting a stunning array of leafy colours, the real eye-catching rainbow of diversity in town is Image+Nation, Montreal’s queer film fest – the biggest and longest-running in Canada. To celebrate its 22nd season, the fest has arrived a little earlier this year, bringing with it pics in a [...]

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Skanking To Give Thanks

Montréal Ska Festival, Club Soda

by D.W. Lee
09.10.2009

This Thanksgiving, get ready to skank it up at the annual Montréal Ska Festival, now in its … first year? Is that right? Bizarre but true … Montréal, “the Ska Capital of Canada,” has never had its own ska fest. Now, The Montréal Ska Society has taken the initiative, building the festival from the ground [...]

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A Candid Look at WFF

Montreal World Film Festival

by James Gartler
07.09.2009

The 33rd Edition of the World Film Festival having drawn to a close, local director Geoff Uloth provides an honest look at the fest from the perspective of someone with an awful lot invested in it – a rising filmmaker.

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It’s Lonely Out There

Montreal World Film Fest

by James Gartler
27.08.2009

With summer winding down, brief as it was, Montrealers have a second chance to escape thanks to the 33rd Edition of the World Film Festival. Starting today, films from all over will converge upon local theatres (including the Imperial, NFB and Quartier Latin) hoping to inspire, thought-provoke, and – yes – provide a glimpse of [...]

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Winged Panther Head Looks To 2010

Zoofest Roundup

by James Gartler
03.08.2009

Near the end of her opening night performance of Playin’ With Micucci, the endearingly wide-eyed Kate Micucci went off-script, saying: “I look at it like a video game – if I get through it, there’s extra points.” One can only wonder if the same sentiment saw Zoofest organizer Lucy Eveleigh through the frantic five months [...]

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Goblin Leaves Them Laughing

Just For Laughs

by James Gartler
28.07.2009

Kiss the little red-horned green goblin goodbye, folks, at least for another year. The 27th Annual Just For Laughs Fest has packed up its carnival of delights and vacated the corner of St Denis and De Maisonneuve after another season of slapstick shows and serious star power. Acts both local and legendary drew record numbers, [...]

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Zombies, Puppets & A Belle Maman

Fantasia’s Weekend of Short Films

by James Gartler and Andrew Hlavacek
24.07.2009

Today through Sunday, Fantasia’s Le Fantastique Week-end du court métrage québécois spotlights local filmmakers. Short films in a variety of styles (animated, puppet, pixellated, live-action), genres (abstract, narrative, fictional documentary) and covering a wide range of topics (day-dreams, zombies, familial bonds) will be screened, some for the first time. After reviewing a few of these [...]

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Queer Disconnect

Mommy Queerest, Centaur Theatre

by Julia Vyse
23.07.2009

A visit to the Just For Laughs Festival presentation of Judy Gold’s show, Mommy Queerest, felt like a good way to slip into this summer’s comedy arc. Like many Jewish comediennes before her, Gold makes light of her ultra-conservative mother. But she goes beyond that when she also tells audiences what it was like growing [...]

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Thursday 11.03.2010

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, another double bill with Christine Tassan and friends; followed by Frank Lozano and friends ... Colin Hunter: Crooner & "Chairman of the Board" reprises at Upstairs while Taurey Butler does his usual Thursday stint at House of Jazz ... Stay tuned Saturday for the third of the special three-part dialogic session with Professor Norman Cornett, featuring world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Ivar Mendez ... [more]