Fringe Arts
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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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Fringe ArtsFringe Food
As you can probably glean from the name, SAT’s current focus on culinary innovation takes the cozy wintry form of the indoor apéritif: offering a warm dynamism to those bleak hivernale hours of retreating light. A riff off the traditional 5 à 7 happy hour featured at many a brasserie Montréalaise, FoodLab 5@10 offers a weekly thematic tasting menu paired with a carte of natural (mostly Québec) wines, all in their brand-new 3rd floor tech-heavy environment. It’s a freshly-spun selection of small plates, best described as ‘dinner…ish.’
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Fringe ArtsCorruption, Misinformation and Sex
The play starts in a hotel room with a beautiful naked woman getting out of bed, lighting a cigarette, and taking a swig of whiskey.
