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2009 Fave Raves

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Crew Selects City’s Best

by Rover Staff
01.01.2010

Over the past 12 months, the Rover crew roamed far and wide across the metropolitan area in search of the city’s crème de la crème arts offerings. Bearing in mind that subjective feelings and standards are part of the stock-in-trade of the critic, here are their selections for the best of what the city put [...]

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The Mother Of All Blogs

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17.11.2009

When Sherry Osborne gave birth to her two daughters she detailed the whole process, from contractions to epidurals, on her blog Andromeda. Osborne is a Montreal-based “Mommy Blogger.” She’s part of a trend that has seen mothers from around the world writing, taking photographs and in some cases designing websites from scratch to voice their [...]

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I Wanna Play Too

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31.10.2009

At first glance, internet behemoth Google, Esquire magazine, and Cisco Systems don’t have a lot in common – different lines of business, dissimilar in size, and varying widely in global reach. But it turns out the world’s largest search engine, the men’s magazine and the networking giant do have a significant shared feature: their [...]

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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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Peace, Good Food & Yoga

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Sivananda Ashram Yoga Camp

by Sarah Fletcher
28.08.2009

Located in the idyllic Laurentian mountains, one hour north of Montreal, the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Camp attracts visitors from all corners of the world. They come out to the Ashram for nutrition and massage courses, weekend retreats, yoga teacher training, or just as an escape from the stresses of harried city life.

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The Other Revolutionary Malcolm

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27.07.2009

Malcolm Gladwell hung a poster of Ronald Reagan in his U of T dorm room. Maybe it’s not so surprising he’s making a lot of money today. Nevertheless, if you read just a little beneath the surface of Outliers, The Tipping Point and Blink, you’ll see he’s really calling for society-wide change nearly as [...]

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The E-volution of Literature

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Electronic Writing

by Mélanie Grondin
19.05.2009

What is e-lit? It would be easy to conclude that e-lit is simply the electronic format of text, a handy e-book reader or the HTML format of a poem available online in such e-zines as carte blanche or even Rover. Let e-lit author and proselytizer J.R. Carpenter set you straight: e-lit is “writing that couldn’t [...]

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Dining in the Dark

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O.NOIR RESTAURANT

by Sarah Fletcher
08.05.2009

Standing outside O.Noir, first-time diners may be seized with trepidation. Dark, heavy curtains obscure the window, a small and yet striking black sign hangs outside the doorway. This is a restaurant Montrealers will pass countless times on St. Catherine St. without a second glance. O.Noir is not, however, the kind of restaurant you pass blindly [...]

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