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  Docville Series : Waiting for August

  Mattha Busby – Updated January 28, 2015 at 1:56am

  Premiering in Quebec on January 29th as part of the Docville series, Waiting for August is a 2014 documentary film exploring the thematics of coming to age, longing and absence within a difficult socio-economic reality.

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  The Comeback of a Canadian Pop Supergroup

  Andy Fidel – Updated January 27, 2015 at 4:06am

  The New Pornographers are coming back to Montreal this Wednesday, ready to sway the Corona Theatre with a whole lot of keyboards, plenty of synthesizers and energetic pop sounds. With the release of their new studio album Brill Bruisers, the band call themselves a pop super-group.

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  Forgotten Boroughs

  Michelle Pucci – Updated January 27, 2015 at 4:02am

  Snapshots of women hanging laundry in makeshift courtyards and back alleys, children hanging over precariously built railings and curious residents and shop owners staring at city workers photographing corner stores—these are the only mementos of parts of Montreal’s working-class history.

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  The Organism of Robots

  June Loper – Updated January 27, 2015 at 3:57am

  Somewhere between fact and fiction, Eastern Bloc Gallery revisits the theme of robots and drones for the exhibition Robotis Personae. Presenting a binary and complementary perspective by artists Sofian Audry, Samuel St-Aubin, Stephen Kelly and Beatriz Herrera, the gallery examines the paradoxes existing between the machine and the human environment.

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  No Passports and a Wedding Dress

  Bibi Dem – Updated January 26, 2015 at 8:32pm

  “The sky belongs to everybody, for it has no borders.”

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  Reflections on Metafilms

  Olivia Frey – Updated January 20, 2015 at 5:44am

  From Jan. 20 to Feb. 17, Montreal’s Phi Centre will be presenting the Metafilms Carte Blanche series, five nights of film screenings highlighting favorites selected by Metafilms’ producers: Nancy Grant and Sylvain Corbeil.

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  Ave Mario: An 8-bit Orchestra

  Jake Russell – Updated January 20, 2015 at 5:29am

  Songs from video games are the unsung heroes of the audiovisual world. Film scores are considered “high art,” with their own esteemed dedicated categories at the Oscars, and Top 40 radio pop songs sweep the Grammys every year. Video game music has yet to break free from its confines to the console.

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  Mixing It Up

  Dori Julian – Published January 20, 2015

  Dave Luxe, self-proclaimed future beats and R&B DJ and producer, originally from Belgium, claims to have landed in the right city because of Montreal’s vibrant music scene along with the prominent fan base the city has offered him.

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  Get a Room!

  June Loper – Updated January 13, 2015 at 4:36am

  In a dialogue between architecture, poetry and philosophy, visual artist Marie-Eve Martel presents an immersive installation entitled Transcender l’architecture, depicting the duality of two architectural environments—Thoreau’s cabin in the woods and Yale University’s Beinecke Library in New Haven.

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  Two Tours in Two Years? Too Easy for G-Eazy

  Tristan Geddes – Updated January 13, 2015 at 4:28am

  This Wednesday will mark G-Eazy’s second show in Montreal in two years. What about our city makes it enjoyable for the 25-year-old rapper?