Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsA Sea of Stripes
Montrealers and tourists alike filled the sidewalks of St. Catherine last Saturday evening in anticipation of the Pinkarnaval parade, a tribute to one of the most creative fashion designers, Jean Paul Gaultier.
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Fringe ArtsFringe Foodie
The café was eclectically decorated and aesthetically interesting. The waiter seemed to have no problem with my friends and me sitting with coffees and laptops discussing work for an hour before ordering anything to eat.
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Fringe ArtsFrame to Frame
Hate him or love him, we’re pretty blessed to have someone like Werner Herzog running across the globe and pointing his camera at the bizarre wonders of our world.
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Fringe ArtsTo Serve The Song Above All Else
It’s pretty common that bands known for technical ability will push the limits of their playing with each new release, but Chicago’s Maps & Atlases latest work strives to flex both creative muscles and the ones in their fingers.
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Fringe ArtsFantasia Film Festival: From Indie to Big Ticket
From soft-porn romances to action-packed samurai bloodbaths, gruesome black comedies and plain old piss-your-pants horror flicks, Fantasia provides an impeccable range of genre films for even the most unflappable consumer. And your inner indie geek is sure to be satisfied by the dozens of little celluloid gems that have yet to be discovered.
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Fringe ArtsIt Took Me Years to Write, Will You Take a Look?
A creative writing workshop is usually a writer’s first encounter with a critical audience. It can, at times, be painful to endure (it can feel like a trial, really), but it can also be illuminating because it can be difficult to understand what elements make a short story effective on one’s own.
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Fringe ArtsWeekly Spins
It’s generally true that recording and performing are two distinct processes for musicians, but New Orleans-based one-man-band Quintron proves this isn’t the rule.
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Fringe ArtsFrame to Frame
Walking out of the theater as the end credits rolled for Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, a slightly dumbfounded man turned to his friend and said, “That’s a movie not really meant for understanding.” And you can’t blame him.
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Fringe ArtsI’ll Talk, You’ll Fill That Notebook
There was a professor at my university who was opposed to internships. I understood his perspective to an extent, but I also pointed out that professors’ research assistants don’t make that much money, and students clock in so many unpaid hours in the hopes of finishing a class with an A.
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