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– Will Aitken in This Writing Death

Theatre

Ars Poetica



by Anna Fuerstenberg

Comment

What an interestingly inviting read on this mind muddled morning. Thanks! Coffee, Please?

– comment by Parker

FILM

It’s Time to Re-meet the Muppets

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The Felt Mob lives again in Jason Segel’s existential Muppets movie

by Melora Koepke
23.11.2011

The new Muppets movie is completely enjoyable, but it’s joy with a shadow side: At the same time as the sight of the Felt Mob singing, dancing and headbanging their way through a story that is utterly true to itself is beyond welcome, it’s easy to realize how much the Muppets were missed – how [...]

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MUSIC

More than Just a Weed Thing

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OG Hindu Kush’s Loe Pesci on battling, bud and uncontested bad-assery

by Catherine Averback
23.11.2011

Montreal hip-hop duo OG Hindu Kush are slowly growing an empire, with top spots as battlers in Canada’s renowned Toronto-based rap battleground King of the Dot, recent collabs with legend-status hip-hop artist Royce da 5’9 and Montreal’s own YouTube stars Epic Meal Time, as well as a fan base now spanning the globe, not to [...]

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MUSIC

On the Spot

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Lakes of Canada frontman Jake Freekin’ Smith lightly grills Folly & The Hunter frontman Nick Vallee in advance of their indie-folk co-presentation this weekend

by Jake Freekin Smith
23.11.2011

Folly & The Hunter are one of Montreal’s best kept secrets, though they won’t likely be a secret much longer. This indie-folk quartet is one of the best new bands to come out of Montreal’s rich music scene. Frontman Nick Vallee’s gorgeous lyrics, combined with the multi-instrumental talents of Christopher Fox, Laurie Torres and recent [...]

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ART

Zine-o-philia

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The tenth anniversary edition of Expozine expects to draw hundreds of small press publishers to one-of-a-kind event

by Marianne Ackerman
23.11.2011

For most of the 20th Century, authors were blissfully removed from the means of production. A vast enterprise of publishing and media undertook (and profited from) disseminating writing. Now all that’s collapsing. Expozine helps fill in the cracks in the architecture. Founded by novelist, publisher (the pioneering zine Fish Piss figuring prominently), musician and Distroboto [...]

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THEATRE

Making Her-story

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ANA co-writer Clare Duffy talks to Rover

by Anna Fuerstenberg
22.11.2011

Muriel Romanes, the artistic director of the Scottish company Stellar Quines Theatre, has been working for three years with director Serge Denoncourt and writers Clare Duffy and Yves Pierre Lemieux under the aegis of Clare Shapiro at Imago Theatre. The result is ANA, a world premiere in French and English with subtitles in both.

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THEATRE

Laughing Towards Profundity

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God of Carnage at Centaur a spectacular, must-see production

by Anna Fuerstenberg
21.11.2011

Every once in a very long while you get to see a performance that reminds you why you keep going to the theatre. God of Carnage was such a performance. Even before it started, “the curtain spiel” was delivered by the voice of a little boy. It was smart ass and cute but it was [...]

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BOOKS

Never Never Land

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Niko, by Dimitri Nasrallah, Véhicule Press

by Martyn Bryant
20.11.2011

Dimitri Nasrallah’s first novel is centered on the playful and exuberant Niko, opening with his early childhood in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war. Surrounded by a near constant backdrop of machine gun fire and exploding bombs, his proud and loving parents protect his innocence by, for example, asking him to hide from ‘ghosts’ (not militia) when the fighting gets close to their home.

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