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  The End of the Tour

  Zachary Goldberg-Mota – Updated February 7, 2015 at 12:57am

  In 2008, David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest and hailed as one of the most creative voices in American fiction, committed suicide in his southern California home. He was 46 and his death came as quite a blow to the literary world. Numerous vigils were held, a trust was established in his honor and a myriad of shocked, heartbroken writing emerged from his colleagues and friends.

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  Leaving Orquesta Behind: The Angry Dancey Rebirth of Orlando Volcano

  Oren Lefkowitz – Updated February 5, 2015 at 6:46pm

  Lounging off a hangover from the night before, Orlando agreed to meet me in the lower Plateau, at my friend’s apartment where he’s staying during his trip to Montreal.

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  Robert Robert Takes on The Arctic Experience

  Sabrina Matteau – Updated February 3, 2015 at 5:06am

  In a short musical career, DJ Robert Robert has already experienced many milestones. In September 2014 he released his first album, Pastel, with StagRecords. The LP is reminiscent of ‘90s RnB, combined with jazzy melodies and tropical hip hop beats, that also implements his electro roots fueled by catchy synthesizers and keyboards.
  This Sunday will mark the DJ’s first appearance at Montreal’s renowned outdoor music festival, Igloofest.

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  The Motion of Love

  Elysia-Marie Campbell – Updated February 3, 2015 at 5:05am

  The bodies of a man and a woman move seamlessly in levitation. Their bodies dance softly, caress and twist and eventually move in shocking ways until they jerk, shove and yank at each other’s hair. These poetic scenes of love through movement appear in Dominique T. Skoltz’s latest work, y2o. The short experimental film is the latest installation at Montreal’s Phi Centre, running from Feb. 6 to Mar. 7.

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  A Sympathetic Murder

  Joshua Rosenbaum – Published February 3, 2015

  Only a particular person could embody the character of a mother that murders her two children in cold blood and gains the audience’s’ sympathies. In The Medea Effect, show director Ugo is desperately looking for a woman talented enough to play the main character in his rendition of the ancient Greek tragedy Medea.

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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.”