Fringe Arts
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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
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Fringe ArtsA Bloody Good Time
On Sept. 25, The Blood Ballet Cabaret presents Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, a titillating parody of the educational video games that were a staple of most ’90s households. The salacious Miss Bloody Mary Anne, aka Kamee Abrahamian, stars as a sensual Carmen Sandiego in a jet-setting burlesque performance that promises to push the envelope in traditional BBC style.
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Fringe ArtsFringe Food
Le Laurier Gordon Ramsay does not accept reservations. So I arrived with my dinner companion at 6:30 on a Friday evening, hoping to beat the dinner crowd. We were told we could be seated at 8:00, but to stick around les environs just in case. While we witnessed other diners depart in a huff at such a proposition — one well-dressed woman went so far as to proclaim, loudly, ‘never again!’…
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Fringe ArtsGet Your Comic On
In his full-body Spider-Man costume, Jérémie Paquette stood out in the crowd of Saturday morning Metro commuters. But any of the 10,000 people expected to head out to Place Bonaventure this weekend knew exactly where he was heading. This weekend’s Comiccon attracted a plethora of masked and mundane characters.
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Fringe ArtsPoets en Masse
In the popular imagination, poetry is often conceived of as a solitary activity, featuring a degree of self-involvement that borders on egomania. On Sept. 24, however, poets across the world will be involved in an event that will challenge both of those assumptions.
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Fringe ArtsConcordia Student Goes POP
If you listen closely to Concordia commerce student Elgin-Skye McLaren’s short but powerful repertoire of recorded music, you’ll notice that, hidden discretely behind the ukuleles, melodicas, xylophones, and soft acoustic guitar, there’s a little storm brewing.
