Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsA Musical Education
Dinosaur Bones are the real thing. Not in the regenerated-from-fossilized-amber sort of way, but rather a group of guys from Ontario roaming the country sharing their not-so-Jurassic sounds. Armed with a slightly haunting brand of guitar-driven indie pop, these guys are in it for the long haul.
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Fringe ArtsArt vs. the Bottom Line
“Money is good. Art is better,” playwright Arthur Holden told Poetry Quebec about the theme of his show, Ars Poetica.
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Fringe ArtsFrame to Frame
Ralph Fiennes deserves a lot of props. Known across the globe as one of the most serious and best actors around. With highlight roles including Oscar nominated uber-evil Nazi in Schindler’s List and romantic hero in The English Patient, among a vast number of supporting and other leading roles
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
There’s nothing like the smell of fresh Satanism in the morning. Mysterious masked Swedish melodic metal sextet Ghost are playing Montreal this weekend as part of their first North American tour, reviving ’80s…
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Fringe ArtsFringe Food
The last time I visited a restaurant with only two menu options, I was in Penn Station. You had to eat both choices standing up. It was hardly a restaurant and its offerings hardly constituted a menu.
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Fringe ArtsPhone Sex Confessions
“I have always really, really enjoyed the power of making people come,” phone sex operator-cum-performer Cameryn Moore mused on her blog, PhoneWhore. “This pre-dates my involvement in paid phone sex by decades.”
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Fringe ArtsBringing the Outdoors In
From the team that created the FAKE brand—a clothing and lifestyle shop located just off the main drag of St. Laurent—comes a new project.
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Fringe ArtsMore Than Meets the Eye
When you first look at a piece of art, the process that was required to create it is not always obvious. Sometimes, something that looks intricate and endlessly complex was the result of an hour or two of work.
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Fringe ArtsDance That Hangover Away
Nouveau Palais owes its recent success to one simple thing. Vibe. It’s a subtle attribute, one many restaurants try too hard at and subsequently fail to achieve. But Nouveau Palais has, by all accounts, nailed it, and though it had hit me on several previous late-night visits, my séjour at Disco Déjeuner this past Saturday simply confirmed it.
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
The Babies are a newborn jangle pop/retro-rock outfit from members of Brooklyn bands Woods and Vivian Girls. As Peter Pan attempted to do with soap, the Babies’ self-titled debut tries to glue the shadow of rock ‘n’ roll’s past to a present lo-fi aesthetic using the leftover bubble gum from the recent Beach Boys-fab craze in indie rock.
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