Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
Born out of the Japanese music scene’s formative years in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, Shonen Knife, an all-girl trio from Osaka, seem to be possessed of an unstoppable—and never-ending—gimmick.
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Fringe ArtsFringe Food
It may come as a surprise to some Montrealers that accessible, healthy, communal meals have been offered on Concordia’s campuses since long before the now-famous People’s Potato was born.
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Fringe ArtsFrame to Frame
Saying that the state of current world affairs is grim would be an understatement, so it’s no wonder then that the apocalypse has become a popular and contemporary theme in cinema.
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Fringe ArtsLocal Lit Havens
October 15 was Independents’ Dayl! If you’re reading this in the Starbucks in Chapters — leave! Support the local guys. Why? They’ll buy your zine on consignment. They’ll let you read to your friends at their store. They serve you tea.
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Fringe ArtsArt Minds & Art Matters
Entering its 11th year, Art Matters, Montreal’s student-run multidisciplinary art festival, is back. Get ready.
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Fringe ArtsRough All Over
With dirty distortion, spacey jamming and Stooge-esque ferocity, The Men somehow manage to sound like punk’s roots and its future at the same time.
They bang through rough, rocking numbers and intense verging-on-hardcore passages, bringing together elements of krautrock and shoegaze for a record that’s as brilliant as it is varied. -
Fringe ArtsFight for Your Right to Poetry
In a world where Occupy protests are popping up in public spaces around the globe like revolutionary seedlings, a group of Montreal poets is out to occupy St. Laurent Blvd. this week—but their demands aren’t necessarily about international finance.
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Fringe Arts“It’s All Very Frankenstein…”
In an unassuming apartment in Montreal’s Plateau borough, two young artists are hard at work bringing a ramshackle steel sculpture to life.
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Fringe ArtsFrame to Frame
Sion Sono likes to raise the bar just to see how high he can go, expanding his cult status and fan base around the world. He’s a controversial poet-filmmaker whose Guilty of Romance unearths sexual desires and dark pasts in very colourful style.
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Fringe ArtsFringe Food
What’s the first thought that pops in your head when I say maple? Now: bourbon? And what about: bacon?

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