Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsFringe for the Holidays
The best parts of the holiday season are those things you can’t quantify: decorating your house, visiting your family, digging into fantastic meals, playing in the snow. That nice warm, cozy feeling you get when you sit back and contemplate the things you have to be happy for.
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Fringe ArtsInspiration in Isolation
The cover of Malajube’s most recent album depicts a weird, glowing geometric house. Maybe not as strange as the lung-butterfly creature on the cover of their Polaris Prize-nominated 2006 album Trompe-l’oeil, but it’s still a little odd.
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
With the lure of a snake charmer, John Dwyer returns from the dark with Thee Oh Sees wielding a demon punk power.
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Fringe ArtsAn Underground Identity
For Punk Jews director Jesse Zook Mann, Judaism is more than just observing tradition, heritage and religious laws. “For us in New York, Judaism has kind of become sterilized,” said Zook Mann. He was called from California through Skype for a Q&A after the 20-minute long preview …
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Fringe ArtsFringe Food
You may find yourselves asking entirely new questions. Questions, perhaps, of a theatrical nature: “Can food perform the same role as a movie star?” Of a social nature: “How can film further food?”Or, most annoyingly to your dearest friends, of a Deleuzian nature: “How is food a becoming-film and film a becoming-food?”
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Fringe ArtsUpdating a Forgotten Play
Witchcraft, a rarely produced 19th century Scottish play, has been revived by Concordia researchers and is being preformed as the sum of three years of work this week. Associate professor Louis Patrick Leroux and PhD student Cristina Iovita are overseeing a team of designers, multimedia technicians, and a cast of 23 actors.
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Fringe ArtsThe Arab Winter Is Coming
The historic La Patrie building, formerly owned by the Church of Scientology and currently housing the Under Pressure Fresh Paint Gallery, will be undergoing yet another transformation this week. The gallery, at the corner of Ste. Catherine St. E. and Hotel de Ville Ave., is being taken over by The Arab Winter for the month of December…
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Fringe ArtsFrame to Frame
The opening scene of The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu begins with a blurry scene of the Romanian dictator denying charges of ordering a genocide.
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Fringe ArtsRibboned for Your Pleasure
The question of whether or not physical publications will continue to exist with the rise of the Internet is one that has been asked a million times over.
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Fringe ArtsThe Psychobilly & The Sitar
It’s Thanksgiving weekend when I call King Khan, and when he picks up he’s making a dinner of butter chicken and dal for his friends in Memphis. They’re all going down to Jay Reatard’s grave before it gets dark to pay their respects. This fall’s Tandoori tour has brought Khan—real name Arish Khan—and his quartet up and down …
