Fringe Arts
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Fringe Arts
Beach Combing
Badlands, the full-length LP that Alex Zhang Hungtai, who records under the name Dirty Beaches, released earlier this year, was an album the artist never really expected anyone to hear.
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Fringe Arts
Building a Festival
On the seventh floor of a large industrial building in the Mile End, buried amidst an eclectic hodge-podge of businesses—including an Israeli MMA self-defence studio, a textile factory and, quite possibly, a porn studio—you will find a loft that is slightly smelly and packed with boxes of vitamin water, cases of beer and massive amounts of freshly printed t-shirts and programs. The room is bustling, as people work busily in pod-like formations scattered across the room.
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Books With Spines. Literally.
Though the notion of renting a person might seem a bit unseemly, Katherine Hall, coordinator of the Human Library project, insisted the event is not at all like slavery.
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Fringe Arts
Usagi Yojimbo Creator On Samurai Rabbits & 30 Years in Comics
Stan Sakai may introduce himself at dinner parties as simply a cartoonist , but for fans of his Samurai-inspired comic Usagi Yojimbo, he’s more like a legend. The 58-year-old Japanese-American’s series follows the interactions of anthropomorphic animals in 17th century Japan.
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Fringe Arts
No Time to Sit Pretty
Being dubbed an indie orchestra didn’t quite suit Hooded Fang, a band in pursuit of a constantly shifting sound. The Toronto sextet dropped the superfluous instrumentation, trading it in for surf punk but keeping the catchiness. Why the change? Well, simply put, it’s just more fun.
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Fringe Arts
Woman in Chains
A nineteen-year-old chokes herself to death in an Ontario prison cell in October 2007 while her guards watch. Ashley Smith, a juvenile delinquent who was first jailed for throwing apples at a postal worker, has become the latest face of female inmate abuse in Canada.
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Fringe Arts
Fringe Food
The eight people crowded around Shammy Chan’s dining room table are about as disparate a group as one could find, even in Montreal.
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Fringe Arts
Between Darkness and Light
The FOFA gallery is dark and claustrophobic, sequestered into sections with black curtains and partitions. The sound of heavy breathing emanates from an unseen speaker.
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Fringe Arts
Not Your Everyday Variety Show
Candyass Cabaret, making its debut this Friday at Café Cleopatra, is bringing some burlesque-esque old-school vaudeville style to Montreal.