Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsBeach Combing
Badlands, the full-length LP that Alex Zhang Hungtai, who records under the name Dirty Beaches, released earlier this year, was an album the artist never really expected anyone to hear.
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Fringe ArtsBuilding a Festival
On the seventh floor of a large industrial building in the Mile End, buried amidst an eclectic hodge-podge of businesses—including an Israeli MMA self-defence studio, a textile factory and, quite possibly, a porn studio—you will find a loft that is slightly smelly and packed with boxes of vitamin water, cases of beer and massive amounts of freshly printed t-shirts and programs. The room is bustling, as people work busily in pod-like formations scattered across the room.
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NewsBooks With Spines. Literally.
Though the notion of renting a person might seem a bit unseemly, Katherine Hall, coordinator of the Human Library project, insisted the event is not at all like slavery.
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Fringe ArtsUsagi Yojimbo Creator On Samurai Rabbits & 30 Years in Comics
Stan Sakai may introduce himself at dinner parties as simply a cartoonist , but for fans of his Samurai-inspired comic Usagi Yojimbo, he’s more like a legend. The 58-year-old Japanese-American’s series follows the interactions of anthropomorphic animals in 17th century Japan.
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Fringe ArtsNo Time to Sit Pretty
Being dubbed an indie orchestra didn’t quite suit Hooded Fang, a band in pursuit of a constantly shifting sound. The Toronto sextet dropped the superfluous instrumentation, trading it in for surf punk but keeping the catchiness. Why the change? Well, simply put, it’s just more fun.
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Fringe ArtsWoman in Chains
A nineteen-year-old chokes herself to death in an Ontario prison cell in October 2007 while her guards watch. Ashley Smith, a juvenile delinquent who was first jailed for throwing apples at a postal worker, has become the latest face of female inmate abuse in Canada.
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Fringe ArtsFringe Food
The eight people crowded around Shammy Chan’s dining room table are about as disparate a group as one could find, even in Montreal.
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Fringe ArtsBetween Darkness and Light
The FOFA gallery is dark and claustrophobic, sequestered into sections with black curtains and partitions. The sound of heavy breathing emanates from an unseen speaker.
