May 31st, 2012 | by Heidy Pinet
We made it out alive again this year. It was harder for me this time, mostly because I had spent a week in New York right before but it was so worth it! Here’s a list of my festival highlights...or at least what I can remember of it
May 31st, 2012 | by Pamela Fillion
In anticipation of tonight’s show with Pinyin Pals and People Person at L’Alilizé, I decided that it was finally time
May 31st, 2012 | by Tomas Urbina
The clanging of pots and pans rang through Toronto’s west end Wednesday night as an estimated 2000 people of all
May 31st, 2012 | by David DesBaillets
Canada’s government should lobby its NATO allies to hold a full investigation into allegations of civilian deaths during its yearlong
May 30th, 2012 | by Taymaz Valley
It’s only fair to say Damien Hirst is about more than money, he used to be good at conceptual art, but that was before the money started to pour in from rich buyers. His “A Thousand Years” broke all the rules when it came to contemporary art, and managed to produce one of the most significant pieces of the 90s; Lucian Freud said to Hirst about the work: “I think you started with the final act, my dear”... Hirst was part of the YBA (Young British Artists) who mostly graduated from the Fine Arts course at the prestigious Goldsmith College London. They reinvented UK art scene and once again put Britain back on the map as a place where art can flourish
May 30th, 2012 | by Robyn Dickson
From June 4th to 24th, the Plateau Mile-End area will be overrun with more than 500 local and international artists, performing an array of music, theater, comedy and dance. By determining the line-up through lottery and keeping ticket prices low, the festival presents itself in the pursuit of wholly autonomous, uncensored and accessible art. But this vast and unrestrained collection can leave someone newly-acquainted with with the festival with an overwhelming sense of beginner’s block
May 30th, 2012 | by Jason C. McLean
I'd like to take a break from the revolution for a moment to say goodbye to a few old friends: several historic buildings that were part of Montreal's fabled Red Light District. That's what the activist artists in the Save the Main Coalition did this past Sunday as they staged a Funeral for the Main. The mock funeral, complete with a priest giving the last rights, pall bearers, hysterical mourners, a coffin and everyone dressed in black, drew 40 people in front of Cafe Cleopatre
May 29th, 2012 | by Julian H Ward
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know a whole lot about comics. I’ve seen the movies and
May 29th, 2012 | by Megan Dougherty
If you’re reading this website, there’s a pretty good chance that you’re a supporter of the student movement.There’s also a
May 28th, 2012 | by Jordan Arseneault
A week into the application of Bill 78, which criminalizes public demonstrations and imposes fines for student organizers and any protesters, there have already been over 1000 arrests by the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM). This is more arrests by far than were carried out during the generation-defining 1970 October Crisis in Québec. With over 2500 arrests of protesters since the beginning of the student strike on February 13, the police crack-down represents the largest number of demonstration-related arrests in Québec history over such a short period
May 28th, 2012 | by Quiet Mike
Noam Chomsky once said “Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the US media.” For Jean Charest, the embattled Quebec Premier, the English Media in Canada must seem like a wet dream come true. Every news broadcast/newspaper I’ve seen in the last month has labelled the students protesting tuition fees and bill 78 as “rioters” “criminals” or “entitled students” at one time or another
May 27th, 2012 | by Ethan Cox
In almost every report on the social movement now sweeping Quebec, including my own, words like conflict, crisis and stand-off figure prominently. Anger is omnipresent. The anger of protesters, the anger of government, the anger of those supposedly inconvenienced. Pundits scream about mob rule, anarchy in the streets and the dissolution of society as we know it. Don't get me wrong, there is anger, present of course. But that is not what you see if you take to the streets, or watch CUTV's live stream. Pundits can't stop bemoaning the inconvenience to "ordinary" Montrealers posed by these protests. But I wonder, are there any "ordinary" Montrealers left to inconvenience
May 27th, 2012 | by Maria Amore
This week I revisited and revised a recipe I created a while back as a final project for a course
May 26th, 2012 | by CT Moore
It's been over 100 days now since the student strike started and the pressure seems to finally be weighing on some of the stakeholders who were hoping they could just legislate it away. Charest just had to replace his chief of staff in hopes of finding a resolution before protestors run amok of festival season and the tourist dollars it brings in, and what other choice did he have? Since enacting la loi spéciale, things have only gotten worse: there are choppers in the wire constantly, pedestrians have been pepper sprayed, there's been over 1500 arrests
May 26th, 2012 | by Jason C. McLean
The mood seemed so festive. All the protesters looked like they were having a great time. It wasn't just the main march, there were impromptu marches and people banging on pots and pans all over the city. While I caught some reports of police repression in Quebec City, what was happening in Montreal was the very definition of a peaceful protest. I went into the kitchen to make a snack. When I came back, the mood had changed…
May 26th, 2012 | by Jessica Klein
We now know that masturbation isn’t bad for you like it was purported to be all those years. It won’t make you go blind or develop hairy palms, nor does it decrease sensitivity or your ability to reach orgasm, either with or without a partner. However, certain sex toys on the market are known to contain shockingly high levels of the potentially dangerous toxic chemical family called phthalates
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