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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?

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  Into The Folds Of The Unknown

  Elysia-Marie Campbell – Updated December 2, 2014 at 4:44am

  Yanick Sasseville’s Exil: Vérité trompeuse is a three-dimensional art exhibition displaying thousands of paper origami birds that morph out of a typewriter and fly from one side of the room to the other.

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  Skate and Create

  Jake Russell – Updated December 2, 2014 at 4:36am

  Skateboarding: a throwaway pastime of potheads and punks, or a creative craft of athletes and outcasts? Ask any skater you see on the street, hucking themselves down stair sets or waxing up ledges for the perfect slide, and you’ll ultimately hear the latter.

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  The Call of Autumn

  Athina Lugez – Published December 1, 2014

  Autumn Still, a thriving pop-folk trio from Winnipeg, Manitoba, is the product of a long-term friendship bound by a shared passion for music. Set to release their new self-titled EP on Dec. 4, the band’s latest songs evoke themes of internal dialogue, relationships and isolation.

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  Never Mind, I’ll Find Someone Like Hugh

  Chris Aitkens – Updated November 25, 2014 at 6:47pm

  This week, Playwright Hero will be putting on their original production of No One Like Hugh, described as “Shakespeare’s unwritten masterpiece.”