FILM

Non-Actors In Cathartic Roles

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Ajami, AMC

by Anna Fuerstenberg
06.05.2010

Ajami is not a linear film, and you are not in Hollywood by a million miles. A Bedouin Mafioso walks into an Arabic café in a very poor neighbourhood in Jaffa and when the owner refuses to pay “protection” money, begins shooting the place up with an automatic. The owner responds by taking out his [...]

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THEATRE

Enchanting With Child-like Reservations

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Andersen’s Inkwell, Geordie Productions

by Anna Fuerstenberg
05.05.2010

In order to appreciate the full impact of Andersen’s Inkwell, the current offering by Geordie Productions, I took my seven-year-old friend Massimo along. He is quite literate and had never before gone to the theatre. The D.B. Clarke is just the right size theatre for a first outing, and I thought this play was a [...]

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MUSIC

Goodbye To The Boss

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Rob McConnell, 1935 – 2010

by Julia Vyse
04.05.2010

It’s been said that even the most famous jazz musicians are only famous to other musicians. By and large that’s true, so you’re forgiven if you don’t know Rob McConnell. He was a huge part of the Canadian jazz tradition and his decades of playing, leading, arranging and writing made his big band the most [...]

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BOOKS

Reading Between the Lines

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R’s Boat, by Lisa Robertson, University of California Press

by Abby Paige
03.05.2010

Lisa Robertson’s latest collection, R’s Boat, may be read as a formal experiment, an autobiographical game, an argument about language and gender, or an attempt to put the unsayable on the page — but not, if you please, as a poem. Its author has described the work as neither a book of poems nor a [...]

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BOOKS

Piece Work: Creating the Canadian Mosaic

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Piece by Piece: Stories about Fitting into Canada, ed. Teresa Toten, Puffin Canada

by Justin Scherer
02.05.2010

“How could an immigrant’s story not be compelling?” asks Teresa Toten in her lovely introduction to Piece by Piece: Stories about Fitting into Canada. We all need to belong; we spend most of our lives searching for a social niche to call home, and this search is all the more fraught for immigrants. The added [...]

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THEATRE

Le silence est d’or

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Une partie avec l’Empereur, Théâtre Jean-Duceppe

by Mélanie Grondin
30.04.2010

Combien de despotes sont devenus dictateurs grâce à leur charisme? Seraient-ils devenus des chefs aussi puissants sans leur habileté à charmer les foules, à les influencer et à les commander? Sans leur aptitude à se faire aimer — du moins, au début?

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STAGE

Unmasking Ritual Tigers

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Tucked Up in the Mountains, Gallery Ethecae

by Adam Kelly
28.04.2010

Frances Mckenzie likes to work alone. Coming from the British Columbia interior, there are some clear influences of solitary living in her new performance/mask/puppetry piece Tucked Up in the Mountains. That’s not to say that she doesn’t also like working in a creative collective. For this work she has brought together some of her creative [...]

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THEATRE

The Relevance Of Rabbits

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Harvey, Segal Centre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
26.04.2010

There is a huge amount of charm in Harvey. The story, about the mild and exceedingly well mannered Elwood P. Dowd, and the six foot three and something inch rabbit he takes on as his best friend, is more charming than funny. It has an old fashioned quality to it, a play of manners set [...]

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BOOKS

Can’t Get No Satisfaction

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Heading South, Dany Laferrière, Douglas & McIntyre

by Mélanie Grondin
25.04.2010

When an author’s highly popular first novel is entitled Comment faire l’amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired), readers expect sex, sex, sex, and more sex. And rightly so. When said first novel is shortly followed by Éroshima (Eroshima), then readers know that the author [...]

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