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Fringe ArtsAll In the Family
Artists, actors, filmmakers and musicians alike are known to flock to Hollywood in hopes of making it big—but few can say they’ve climbed Mount Improbable and reached the golden beaches of success on the other side.
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A Decade of Resistance
As university students in the progressive metropolis of Montreal, it’s our responsibility to stay informed and on top of current events both at home in Quebec and abroad—so Cinema Politica is back to make sure the world’s pressing issues stay at the forefront of Concordia’s collective consciousness.
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Fringe ArtsThe Art of Spontaneity
Improvisation is a special brand of comedy. It can make your cheeks hurt from laughing while watching re-runs of the classic show Whose Line Is It Anyway. It can make you cringe at dinner parties when relatives attempt and fail at humour. And it can often surprise you when improv performers onstage can think of jokes in an instant that are even funnier than stand-up jokes worked on and perfected over weeks.
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Fringe ArtsPOP Montreal Diary
We’re blogging from POP Montreal from Sept. 25 – 29. Check back here throughout the fest to see what we’ve been up to.
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Merging Montreal Mainstays
Maica Mia was originally the brainchild of Maica Armata and Johnny Paradise, but that brainchild is about to get a sibling.
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Good Vibes All Around
When POP Montreal’s founder Dan Seligman calls you “possibly the greatest band in the world,” you know you have something good going.
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Fringe ArtsOpaque Pop Melancholy
It comes to you as if in a dream, the faint glimmer of manipulated piano brushing past as you sink deeper into the blackness. You’ll Never Get to Heaven emits ambient melancholy, remnants of pop vocals embedding themselves in murky haze and crackle.
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Math Blasters
Math in itself may not be something to look forward to. Math rock, however, is a different story.
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Fringe ArtsWhat You Really, Really Want
If you were alive in the ’90s, you know who the Spice Girls are—they were inescapable.
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Two Saxxy Gentlemen
Jazz might be the last genre you’d expect to see at POP Montreal. After all, some might say it’s best reserved for middle-aged couples sipping wine in tasteful-yet-stuffy establishments, not for the unwashed youth at one of the city’s biggest indie festivals. Saxsyndrum is challenging the status quo by merging electro dance music with sweet saxophone licks to revitalize jazz in a whole new way.
