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Fringe Arts
Your Guide to FRINGE Fest 2013
The 23rd edition of the St-Ambroise Montreal FRINGE Festival is currently in full party mode, so grab a program and Fringe away!
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Opinions
Nah’msayin
Have you ever wondered how 20-something girls live? Care to come down the rabbit hole? Explore seven-and-a-half rooms of girly things sprawled out without care in an impromptu living-art performance, titled My Landlord is Selling the Apartment, now in its third month?
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Fringe Arts
Selling Vinyl and Screening a Hip-Hopera
Concordia’s resident indie radio station, CJLO 1690AM, is kicking off its second annual FUNdrive this week with a hip- hopera and a 24-hour marathon broadcast.
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Fringe Arts
Adventurer or Avoider?
A professional procrastinator might just be someone who makes strange choices. Or could they be victims of circumstance? That question is one of the themes covered in Peer Gynt.
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News
No Good Faith for Concordia’s Unions
If 1.5 per cent of the students represented by Concordia’s teaching and research assistants union go to the annual meeting this Friday, the university’s TAs and RAs…
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Opinions
Nah’msayin?
When I started drinking coffee I’d chew on a teaspoon of my dad’s Taster’s Choice coffee crystals, chase them with a glass of water, and run out the door. Eventually I learned to manage my time well enough to boil the water first and then put the instant coffee in it.
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Fringe Arts
A Bed, a Breakup, a Warehouse, a Play
It worked in Berlin and Santiago, but are Montreal audiences ready for a grunge-era play trilogy about 20-somethings trying to figure out life?
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Special Issue
The Gender & Sexuality Issue
Human beings seem to like dualities. Life is easier to navigate that way. But binaries don’t always slip so neatly onto human affairs, however much we’d like them to. In this special issue, we look at man/woman and gay/straight.
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Special Issue
A New Sexual Standard
There are so many iconic representations of love, sex and desire embedded in our social consciousness, it’s hard not to get a picture of what it is well before we even start our own relationships.
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Fringe Arts
Sugar, Spice and Blood Packets
There’s some debate over whether one artist will be bringing her own 1,500-pound pillar of clay or if the EDGY Women Festival has to provide it.
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Special Issue
Mapping the Main
St. Laurent Blvd. and its surroundings represent one of the most vivid and thriving cultural arteries in town.
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Special Issue
Much More Than a City Park
That giant park that gave our city its name has a lot going on, but most people don’t know it’s more than just a mountain.
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Sports
Hot Feet, Cool Head
At the surface, capoeira appears to be nothing more than a game—a “war dance” that flows to a series of non-verbal cues to music.
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Opinions
When 16-Year-Olds Hold the Key
The people who gave deep-fried Mars bars a place on snack shop menus and the ones who know a dozen different ways to serve cheese curds over fries are finally united over so much more than dubious culinary standards.
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Opinions
Nah’msayin?
Yes I’m sure. I’ve never been so sure of anything in my life. I’m leaving the house. I want to turn my computer off.
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Fringe Arts
Not Your Parents’ Chinese New Year
Television and radio have gone the way of auditoriums and gramophones for Montreal’s young entertainers.
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Fringe Arts
The Solar System is Glass
Concordia’s Fine Arts department has been inviting artists to speak in free events for years, but with their new lecture series, Conversations in Contemporary Art, it’s a bi-weekly affair.
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A Luxury Arctic Survival Experience
The New Snow Village Is a Branded-Igloo Cold Trap. Beware.
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Fringe Arts
A Two-Night Stand
Concordia theatre grad and local comedienne Rena Hundert is presenting two one-act plays for the first time at the freestanding room this week.
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Fringe Arts
After the Party It’s the Après Ski
Most big festivals end up spawning small, alternative offshoots that run on the same theme. For Montreal’s premiere winter party—Igloofest—that comes in the form of a brand new event called Après Ski.