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Ars Poetica



by Anna Fuerstenberg

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

– comment by Parker

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Sappy Days are Here Again

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SappyFest Six draws a cozy crowd for a weekend of music and magic

by Megan Stewart
28.07.2011

While most of the summer festivals covered on Rover happen in Montreal, there is a little festival that takes place away from our island that deserves some attention. It has a funny name and attracts a funny group people that prefer their fests small and intimate, in venues like legions and dive bars, rather than [...]

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Monkeying Around

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Nina Conti puts on a zany, deconstructed ventriloquist act that's nothing like the puppets you watched on TV as a kid, at Just For Laughs

by Crystal Chan
28.07.2011

Nina Conti got a present one day: a “Teach Yourself Ventriloquism Kit” that promised she was “30 days away from being a proficient ventriloquist.” Thirty days, thirty booklets. It was a gift from the great Ken Campbell, a man whom she’d met years earlier after she “stalked him” and begged for a role in his [...]

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Cocksure comedy

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Just For Laughs gets a double dose of hotshot hilarity from Nick Thune and Anthony Jeselnik

by Jeremy Moses
27.07.2011

There is something refreshing about seeing comedians work the stage with a confident, verging on cocky attitude. Far too often, comedians are too scared to take their jokes to the next level, not willing to put it all on the table. Luckily for the Just For Laughs crowds, Nick Thune and Anthony Jeselnik’s “Double Threat” [...]

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Laying all the way back

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New York City’s Hannibal Buress is the best funniest friend you never had, at Just For Laughs

by Jeremy Moses
26.07.2011

Hannibal Buress is a laidback dude. Those are his words, by the way. And it’s true – if you only take one thing away from his show, “The Hannibal Montanabal Experience” (great name for a show or greatest name for a show?), it’s that he’s one chilled out comedian.

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Option paralysis?

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A dizzying array of choices at expanded Osheaga music fest offers many an opportunity to lose yourself in the music

by Catherine Averback
26.07.2011

Excitement? Anticipation? Extreme happiness? A mix of all three? It’s difficult to name exactly what I – along with tens of thousands of other anticipated attendees – feel about what’s to come to Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Ste-Hélène this weekend. Suffice it to say, get pumped – it’s that time of year again. Montreal’s annual [...]

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And Now for the Rough Stuff

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Jimmy Carr’s “Laughter Therapy” brings some good old-fashioned vulgarity to Just For Laughs

by Andrea Elalouf
26.07.2011

While The Nasty Show may usually take the crown for the most offensive show at Just For Laughs, British comedian Jimmy Carr’s latest, “Laughter Therapy,” could very well be a top contender for the title this year.

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Kung Fu and a Killer Santa

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Yuen Woo-ping’s True Legend and Dick Maas’ Saint on a double-bill at Fantasia

by Mike Lake
26.07.2011

Yuen Woo-ping may not be a household name, but most of us are familiar with his work: he provided martial arts choreography for The Matrix series, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and both Kill Bill movies. As can be expected, the fight sequences in the much-anticipated True Legend are dazzling—the rest of it, not so much.

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