ART

In-demand Man

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Popular Ottawa artist Michael Harrington paints the meaning of man

by Marianne Ackerman
24.11.2011

As artist studios go, Michael Harrington’s is vintage man-cave. An arch between two yet-to-be-gentrified houses on an unfashionable Ottawa street leads into a weedy courtyard. At the back, a cinderblock building on its last legs. The windowless two-room suite on the second floor is crammed with guitars on stands, various packing crates, iffy furnishings, paint-splatted [...]

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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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THEATRE

Of Terror and Migration

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Stori Ya one-woman show at Mai speaks of an amazing journey.

by Anna Fuerstenberg
18.11.2011

Warona Setshwaelo walks onto the circle of black tiles at the Mai theatre and greets everyone in the audience for being there and then proceeds to grab their hearts and tear them into shreds. Stori Ya is a marriage of traditional story telling with its elliptical repetitions and chants and character morphs, and the great [...]

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THEATRE

Script Fights Sympathetic Shylock

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Dawson students do their best with a poorly-constructed Merchant of Venice

by Alex Woolcott
18.11.2011

There’s some fine work going on at the Professional Theatre Program of Dawson and the evidence is on the stage at Dawson Theatre, where the students are currently embroiled in an enthusiastic production of The Merchant of Venice. To the production’s credit, there is nothing modern anywhere in sight: this a mostly faithful interpretation, with [...]

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MUSIC

Been Around the Block? He is the Block

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Brooklyn rock'n'roll/soul man Garland Jeffreys on just about anything - from Jackie Robinson to Lou Reed to Sonny Rollins - you ever wanted to know about everything

by Shayne Gryn
17.11.2011

Garland Jeffreys isn’t known for pulling his punches. The Brooklyn-born singer-songwriter, who’s been recording since the late ’60s, made a name for himself by painting honest, and sometimes bleak, portraits of the world around him. From the anthemic Wild in the Streets to the intimate and personal Spanish Town, Jeffreys has sung about murder, racial [...]

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THEATRE

What the Puck!

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Four Minutes if you Bleed writers Ned Cox and Alexandria Haber speak out.

by Laura Freitag
17.11.2011

If you’re looking for a Canadian family comedy in time for the hockey – sorry we mean holiday – season, it seems that Centaur Theatre’s Brave New Looks Selection may have the perfect play. Four Minutes if you Bleed is a play written by Alexandria Haber and Ned Cox that has been in development since [...]

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MUSIC

Harnessing the Saucer

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Montreal indie-pop party HonHeeHonHee on aggravated cops, kangaroo GWAR tacos and the imminent zombie apocalypse

by Jake Freekin Smith
16.11.2011

The Rover recently had the pleasure of talking with HonHeeHonHee’s Matt Raudsepp, bassist for the indie-pop five-some that started in Montreal just over a year ago. The instrumental set-up is nothing new (electric guitars, synths, bass and drums), but it’s their feel and energy that set them apart – they sound like an optimistic, off-the-wall [...]

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MUSIC

A Hybrid of Musical Masterminds

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Two superstar electronic artists fuse musical styles from across the globe to create the hot, cutting-edge sound of Africa Hitech

by Rima Hammoudi
15.11.2011

Africa Hitech is a musical ensemble comprised of two of the most ubiquitous artists within the music industry. Hailing from the UK and settling in Australia, Mark Pritchard and Steve Spacek are underground electronic superstars – champions of their particular brand of electro, which blends techno, soul, calypso, reggae and R&B into the mix.

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MUSIC

Singers Save Retro-Rendered Show

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Staging mars perfectly decent performance of Dvořák opera, Rusalka

by Lev Bratishenko
15.11.2011

Some people talk about putting on a Czech opera like you wear a lead apron to do it, but that isn’t true. It’s perfectly legal. So don’t buy the argument that a production of Dvořák’s Rusalka (containing an aria you’ll find on every best-of opera disc) means the Opera de Montreal took any risks. Not [...]

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