Books

Writing non-fiction’s a bitch – a truth not universally acknowledged.

– 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

MUSIC

Haunting The City Of Memory

The Rover: Music: Marc Berube and the Patriotic Few

Mark Berube and the Patriotic Few, June in Siberia

by Brenna Baggs
03.03.2011

If March in Montreal has got you down, it’s time to dive into June in Siberia. Listen to it after sunset, preferably while traipsing through the slushy streets, when you’re in the mood to indulge in some good old-fashioned melancholy. This album may not lift you from your sunlight-deprived winter blues, but it will certainly [...]

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BOOKS

Montreal Main – the Film, and Now the Book

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Montreal Main, by Thomas Waugh & Jason Garrison, Arsenal Pulp Press

by Matthew Surridge
02.03.2011

In 1974, a Montreal filmmaking collective created an independent film called Montreal Main, which follows a photographer, Frankie, as he meets and is drawn to a twelve-year-old boy named Johnny, thus straining Frankie’s relationship with his best friend, the manic Bozo.

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BOOKS

Fragments of Montreal Life, Lovingly Rendered

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Suddenly Something Happened, by Jimmy Beaulieu, Conundrum Press

by Megan Stewart
01.03.2011

Wine-soaked summer nights on a Plateau balcony, strangers brought together by snowstorms, the sidewalk ballet of attractive and eccentric, graceful and occasionally unruly characters – Jimmy Beaulieu lovingly renders these fragments of Montreal life in pencil and ink on the pages of his newest graphic novel, Suddenly Something Happened.

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BOOKS

If You Don’t Make a Noise

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Lives Whole and Otherwise, by H. Nigel Thomas, TSAR

by Alice Petersen
28.02.2011

H. Nigel Thomas’ collection of short stories, Lives Whole and Otherwise, is not a book to curl up with under the duvet.  These are spiky, uncomfortable tales that will leave you with your eyes wide open to the difficulties of being a Black immigrant in Montreal.

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TRENDSETTERS

Why Does Adam Gopnik Write?

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The Montreal-bred New Yorker staffer talks about the act and the threats it faces

by Matthew Hays
27.02.2011

Adam Gopnik has been a staff writer with The New Yorker since 1986, having written for four of the magazine’s most famous editors, William Shawn, Robert Gottlieb, Tina Brown and David Remnick. The Philadelphia-born, Montreal-bred Gopnik has written on a broad range of topics, including the culture of the city of Paris, the connection between [...]

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EVENTS

Night Time Is The Right Time

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Nuit blanche

by Robyn Fadden
26.02.2011

Aside from Halloween and New Year’s Eve, Nuit Blanche is my favourite night in Montreal. Even without wild costumes or sparkly dresses (though they do make appearances), tonight’s activities have a festive air – at what other time of year do public art, music, performances, dance parties and happy crowds go on side by side, [...]

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OSCAR TIME

Oral Pleasantries

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The King’s Speech, AMC Forum 22

by James Gartler
26.02.2011

Have you ever been forced to speak with a mouth full of marbles? Colin Firth has. And, apparently, so was Queen Elizabeth’s father. Judging by The King’s Speech, both managed it with as much grace as possible in such a situation, which may be why Academy voters nominated the film for no less than a [...]

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