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Fringe ArtsDill or No Dill
Nostrils fill with the pungent smell of vinegar. Then a second wave hits, the smell of dill, equally strong but less offensive. Inside the kitchen of Santropol Roulant, plates of pickles are spread out between five workstations for people to taste-test.
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Fringe ArtsA Room With Some Views
“I hate going to readings,” said my friend’s roommate. This right before my friend and I walked to hear Sina Queyras read from her first novel, Autobiography of Childhood, at Drawn & Quarterly. He said he didn’t need to know how the writer intended the characters to sound. Fair enough. But most of the time, the audience and the questions that arise after a reading can be worth it.
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Fringe ArtsFringe Food
We had been told that at some unknown point, free food would appear on this table. And so we waited, patiently, for about half an hour whereupon, to our amazement, a pot, ladle and array of mismatched dishes emerged from some undisclosed location, with a smiling, curly-haired man in tow.
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Fringe ArtsSustainable Style
After working for over 10 years at one of Canada’s leading fashion houses and watching mountains of unused luxury fabric accumulate in warehouses at the end of each season, local designer Suzanne Bateman decided to take action.
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Fringe ArtsLit Alights at The Sparrow
Fall is officially here, which means it’s the perfect time to curl up with a good book under the swiftly changing foliage. To celebrate this, the most bookish of seasons, Coach House Books, DC Books and Snare Books are throwing a free mega-launch for the beginning of the fall literary season…
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Fringe ArtsArt Alive
VIVA! Art Action is preparing to run its third edition in Montreal from Oct. 4 to 9.
The biannual art show will be held at the Bain St-Michel and will feature 20 Canadian and international artists. This year, the festival brings events to satisfy all the senses with contemporary artistic performances, DJs and even pre-show suppers. -
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Fringe ArtsDeath to the Graphic Novel
I really wanted to hate Art Spiegelman.
As a long-time comic nerd and admitted Marvel-rat, I really despise the whole culture surrounding the graphic novel. People who refer to long-form comics this way almost always fit a mold of snobbish philistines who are quick to dismiss a rich and long-standing comic culture without which their precious graphic novels never would have existed. -
Fringe ArtsOutside the Box
A four-by-eight foot box sat in the Sculpture Garden courtyard at FOFA this past week. The portable black theatre box drew quizzical looks from some Saturday night passers-by.
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Fringe ArtsFrame to Frame
Michael Ryan spoke last spring at a Concordia Cinema Student Association event where he enthusiastically talked about how to package finished films for festivals. Today, he is busy fine-tuning this year’s YoungCuts film festival, an event that showcases films by directors and producers 25 and under.
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
Our reviews of the latest from POP performers Fucked Up, Topanga and Deep Dark Woods
