ART

Jeanie Riddle, l’équilibre solide

JEANIE RIDDLE, CIRCA

by Aliette Mahé
05.02.2009

California, oeuvre de Jeanie Riddle, est une installation qui renvoie à la culture de la Côte Ouest des États-Unis des années 50.

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ART

The Cocktail Era

PAINTING THE TOWN FAUVE, MMFA

by April Pierce
04.02.2009

“I HAVE BEEN REPROACHED for loving the world, for being mad about luxury, elegance, for being a snob disguised as a bohemian – or a bohemian disguised as a snob.

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MUSIC

A Tale Lacking Sound and Fury

MACBETH, OPERA DE MONTREAL

by Lev Bratishenko
03.02.2009

VERDI’S MACBETH is a difficult early work. The premiere last week of Opéra de Montreal’s new production, a collaboration with Opera Australia, was an undignified birth.

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THEATRE

A Warm Belly Full of Laughs

SHIRLEY VALENTINE, CENTAUR

by Anna Fuerstenberg
02.02.2009

CONSIDERABLE COURAGE is required to go forth on a cold winter night to see a play. As soon as the lights come up and Nicola Cavendish starts to speak, the battle with weather fatigue make sense.

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BOOKS

A Bleak Prospect, Richly Rendered

Austin Clarke, Thomas Allen Publishers

by Alice Petersen
01.02.2009

MORE OPENS WITH A SENTENCE TWO AND A HALF PAGES LONG, a sinewy line of half-waking thought pinned down by sirens and church bells

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BOOKS

Pipe Dreams and Perversity

THE RETREAT David Bergen, McClelland and Stewart

by Claire Holden Rothman
31.01.2009

THE RETREAT, WINNIPEGGER DAVID BERGEN’S FIFTH NOVEL and a nominee for the 2008 Giller Prize, is full of ironies that would be funny if they weren’t so sad.

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THEATRE

Joyride Through a Dark and Stormy Night

THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND, MAINLINE THEATRE

by Marianne Ackerman
30.01.2009

TOM STOPPARD’S The Real Inspector Hound is not only the best play ever written about theatre critics, it’s one of the funniest scripts around.

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THEATRE

Pur chaos du désir

AU THÉÂTRE D’AUJOURD’HUI SALLE JEAN-CLAUDE GERMAIN

by Irina Egli
29.01.2009

La pièce de Gilbert Turp, Pur chaos du désir, vise à toucher la conscience historique d’une société en même temps que le drame intimiste d’un amour qui se défait.

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EVENTS

Tonight — at The Word

Who Decides the CanLit Canon? And How?

by Carmine Starnino
28.01.2009

TONIGHT, I’LL BE SITTING WITH ROBYN SARAH, ROBERT LECKER, AND ANITA LAHEY TO DEBATE CANADA’S LITERARY CANON.

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EVENTS

Elika the Helpful Damsel

PRINCE OF PERSIA, UBISOFT MONTREAL Lead Designer: JEAN-CHRISTOPHE GUYOT

by Marvin Allen
27.01.2009

ONE OF UBISOFT MONTREAL’S FIRST HITS after it opened here in 1997 was a remake of Prince of Persia, an old Macintosh video game released in the early 90s.

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BOOKS

The Essential and the Best

The Essential P.K. Page The Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2008

by Maxianne Berger
26.01.2009

THE ESSENTIAL P.K. PAGE, a slimly winnowed collection of poems, is the second in a series aiming: …to provide the best possible introduction to a preeminent Canadian poet, by selecting key poems that carry the essence of an individual poetic voice and sensibility … Page has been part of Canada’s poetic landscape since emerging in the [...]

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BOOKS

Flawed Fifties Feminist Fiction

PSYCHE Phyllis Brett Young, McGill-Queen’s University Press

by Kate Orland Bere
25.01.2009

NOVELS, UNLIKE HUMANS, MAY RISE FROM THE DEAD. Phyllis Brett Young’s first novel, Psyche, has been reincarnated fifty years after its first appearance. Studying the era that nurtured its author offers readers a compelling glimpse into the development of a successful mid-20th century Canadian novelist. Young’s Psyche, a huge bestseller reprinted in many languages, was one of [...]

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BOOKS

Four Takes on Guy Delisle

BURMA CHRONICLES Guy Delisle, Drawn & Quarterly

by Mark Abley
24.01.2009

TAKE ONE: AMONG QUEBEC AUTHORS, DOES ANYONE SELL MORE THAN GUY DELISLE? His graphic novels – you might also call them journalistic comic books, illustrated travelogues or works of creative non-fiction – are enormously popular in both French and English, attracting young readers who might never read a non-fiction book without illustrations. His latest effort, [...]

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TV

A Remake for All the Right Reasons

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

by Leonard Eichel
23.01.2009

TIME MAGAZINE called it one of the best dramas on television today. Newsday went one further, declaring it the best show on TV. Mad Men? Six Feet Under? Dexter? None of the above. They were talking about the Sci-Fi Channel’s first bona fide original series Battlestar Galactica. Like no other television show, BSG captures the [...]

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ART

99 Steps to Reclaiming the City

ACTIONS: WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THE CITY, CCA

by Rose Sneyd
22.01.2009

The Canadian Centre for Architecture’s current exhibition, Actions: What You Can Do With the City, is an exploration of how urban dwellers can reclaim their status as citizens and thereby help avert cataclysmic environmental disasters so often predicted by scientists and the media. It’s also an investigation into how our often inhospitable cities can be [...]

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