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Dynamic Imprinting

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MOIS DE LA PHOTO, various venues

by Lori Callaghan
02.10.2009

Stealer of souls and fodder of the paparazzi, the photograph has had a huge impact on our lives. From advertising and ID cards to family portraits and crime scene pictures, there’s no denying its usefulness. As a fine art form, photography continues to evolve as a dynamic medium. This is nowhere better illustrated than in [...]

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Political Theatre That Engages

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Sexy béton Part 1, Segal Centre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
01.10.2009

There is something counterintuitive about a play named Sexy béton. What is duller that concrete? Yet the cast of this work have managed with great compassion and infinite professionalism to present a work that is thoughtful and moving.

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Celebrating Montreal’s Mr. Jazz

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Tribute to Len Dobbin, L’Astral, August 9

by Jim Little
05.08.2009

With his bulbous nose, stooped posture and weathered laugh, Len Dobbin, jazz broadcaster/writer/photographer/fan, cut an almost Dickensian figure. Gazette cartoonist Aislin captured it with his caricature a few years ago. It shows Dobbin wearing a baseball cap emblazoned with the upside-down Upstairs logo, saying: “Then Diz looked at my nose and said, ‘Man, let me [...]

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Woods, Wit and Whimsy

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AS YOU LIKE IT, Shakespeare in the Park

by Mélanie Grondin
04.08.2009

For their 21st season of Shakespeare in the Park, Repercussion Theatre chose a play not as well known as Romeo and Juliet or Midsummer Night’s Dream. Yet it contains all any Bard lover could want: feuding families, exile, a forest, women disguised as men, knaves and fools, music, dancing and brilliant soliloquies (including “The world’s [...]

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