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  The Unseamly Truth

  Gabriel Waino-Théberge – Updated February 11, 2014 at 2:47am

  Anyone familiar with American Apparel’s sexual harassment scandals in the past few years will likely find a parallel with Infinitheatre’s latest production about the perils of being a woman in the fashion world’s highly sexualized workplace.

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  The Sky’s the Limit

  Alejandra Melian-Morse – Updated February 11, 2014 at 2:42am

  No one can deny that modern technology is reaching unimaginable new heights—but when it comes to film, this statement can be taken literally. Drones have now been introduced to the cinematography scene, and Skysmith Cinedrones is flying them down an artistic path.

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  Skate, Drink, Slam, Repeat

  Jake Russell – Updated February 4, 2014 at 7:18am

  Nestled in a nook along St. Laurent Blvd.’s main strip, with a bulky metal door adorned with a wreath of shattered Maplewood skateboard decks, the thrash-hold to TRH-Bar is pretty discrete from the outside.

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  A Labour of LOVE

  Geoffrey Vendeville – Updated February 4, 2014 at 7:05am

  More than once in rehearsal, emotion has gotten the better of the dancers in Sonia Balazovjech’s company.

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  Talking Dirty

  Daniel Chen – Published February 4, 2014

  While other muscles such as the gluteus maximus or the heart may be more realistic candidates for the title of  “Mightiest Muscle,” the tongue has a distinct advantage, as it can do one thing the other muscles cannot—it can gossip about the other parts of the body.

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  ‘The Arcade Review’ Lights a Critical Fire

  Jocelyn Baxter – Published February 3, 2014

  What do you get when you cross serious critical theory with video games?

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  To Drink and Sing on the Breadline

  Jake Russell – Updated January 28, 2014 at 1:15am

  A creaky wooden hall in the middle of nowhere with the bitter cold creeping in through every crack sounds better suited for the setting of a horror movie than a place to make a record.

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  Smelling is Believing

  Jayde Norström – Updated January 28, 2014 at 1:11am

  For humans, our not-so-keen sense of smell is often overlooked in favour of the more popular senses—seeing a red-and-purple-splashed sunset, or hearing a complex, brilliant symphony. But for Norwegian scent artist and “professional in-betweener” Sissel Tolaas, our sense of smell is her bread and butter.

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  Sieging the Servers

  Verity Stevenson – Updated January 28, 2014 at 1:05am

  On Feb. 1, Wikipedia is getting a makeover—or is it a reality check?

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  It’s Jammer Time

  Jocelyn Baxter – Updated January 21, 2014 at 4:34am

  It’s a new year, and what better way to kick off 2014 than with a game jam of worldwide magnitude?