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Out Of This World

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Anticipation, Palais des congrès

by Lori Callaghan
06.08.2009

Worldcon is here. One of the biggest events in the SF and fantasy community, it brings together writers, artists, publishers and, of course, fans to share their works, ideas and passion for the far-out fiction we love to love. The five-day event, Anticipation, hosts more than 500 participants and thousands of dedicated followers. Programming includes [...]

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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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STAGE

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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TRENDS

The Other Revolutionary Malcolm

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27.07.2009

Malcolm Gladwell hung a poster of Ronald Reagan in his U of T dorm room. Maybe it’s not so surprising he’s making a lot of money today. Nevertheless, if you read just a little beneath the surface of Outliers, The Tipping Point and Blink, you’ll see he’s really calling for society-wide change nearly as far-reaching [...]

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