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Riley Wignall
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The Golden Age Isn’t Over
Maybe I’m a little late to the party here, but I don’t think that this album has an expiration date, and I’m willing to back that statement up by reviewing it now.
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Silent Night? We Wish: Five of the Worst Christmas Songs
Five terrible Christmas songs that will make you grateful for Josh Groban.
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Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Hot Drinks to Shake off Winter Chills
Whether it’s your first or fifth winter here in Montreal, the transition to downright freezing is always a painful one this time of year. But don’t worry too much, there are tons of ways to win the cold war: onesie pajamas, brand new mittens, hibernation a la bears, and our personal favourite, hot drinks.
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Fringe ArtsArt Your Heart Out
Holiday staple, the souk @ sat, is celebrating its 10th year of turning the Société des arts technologiques into the go-to place to find local products made by artists from Montreal and all over Quebec.
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Fringe ArtsApocalypse Meow!
“You Are a Cat in the Zombie Apocalypse!,” the title very loudly speaks for itself. The book tells the story of Holden Catfield, an ordinary house cat who tries to navigate through an extraordinary undead Armageddon.
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Fringe ArtsLit Scene Supreme: Expozine 2013
Expozine, Montreal’s small press, comic and zine fair returns this weekend to fill up your reading list with indie delights, each one as unique as the tiny, tumbling snowflakes which have banished us all indoors.
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Fringe ArtsA Time to Howl
They say there is strength in numbers. It’s a philosophy that expands beyond just looking out for each other—to feeding the collective, creative psyche. A local group of artists known as the Howl! Arts Collective explores this method in its latest album, which is being launched Nov. 13 at La Sala Rossa.
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OpinionsNah’msayin?
Let me just start off by saying that I’m one of those people who likes most, if not all, kinds of music.
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Move over Movember, it’s National Novel Writing Month!
That’s right friends, grab your laptops and bottomless coffee mugs and run to your nearest café: National Novel Writing Month begins today.
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Top 5 Most Haunted Places in Montreal
It’s easy to forget that Montreal has a haunted history all its own, from the stones up. After all, you don’t get to be over 300 years old without a little supernatural baggage.
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Show in Review: Gryn Productions’ “The Rocky Horror Show”
After penning the preview article for MainLine Theatre’s “The Rocky Horror Show” just last week, I went up to the lab to see exactly what was on the slab for the show’s final run on Saturday night.
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Fringe Giveaway: Chrome Sparks
You could win two tickets to Chrome Sparks, Solar Year and APigeon.
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Stream: Arcade Fire’s Double LP Reflektor
After some serious inner reflection, Arcade Fire has released their newest album, Reflektor, five days ahead of the date it was set to drop worldwide.
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Fringe ArtsCJLO’s Double Birthday
Here’s a riddle for you. What’s both five and 15 years old, speaks and sings but has no vocal chords, and is putting on a rocking party on Friday?
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Fringe Giveaway Winners: “Bad Grandpa” Tickets
Congratulations to the winners of last week’s Fringe Giveaway!
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A Humdrum Gala: Joel RL Phelps’s New Record is a Great Listen When Taking a Nap
The latest from Montana indie crooner Joel RL Phelps, elegantly titled Gala, is less of the sophisticated, expensive party that the title implies, and more of a tired get-together with a few old friends in the back room of your local dive bar.
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Fringe ArtsThis Is Bat Country
Do you consider yourself too weird to live and too rare to die? Do you find yourself drawn to the dark side of the moon and carry Visine in your schoolbag for your “allergies”? If so, this coming weekend’s Montreal Psych Fest is the place for you.
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A Modern-Day Epic
What does it take to complete a novel of nearly 700 pages? Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling know. And now, Montreal-based author Norm Sibum knows too.
