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Fringe Arts
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Fringe ArtsWater: A Right or a Commodity?
Whether it’s mineral, flavoured, sparkling or simply flat, buying bottled water has become a habit for the young.
Liz Marshall’s documentary Water on the Table, featuring Maude Barlow, demands an answer to the question of whether water is a commodity or a right. -
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Fringe ArtsHaving a Gas
“We are, all of us, after a myth, I think,” Peter Dubé says in his new book Subtle Bodies: A Fantasia on Voice, History and René Crevel.
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Fringe ArtsYarn Wars
If you have recently wandered around the Mile End or Plateau, you may already be familiar with Heather Utah’s yarn bombs.
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Fringe ArtsMonster Mash
Halloween is approaching, and what better way to pay homage to this wonderful holiday than by celebrating the art of monsters?
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Fringe ArtsNo End In Sight
So much for the notion that the “Alberta dream” is a safe and reassuring one.
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Fringe ArtsRage Against the Drum Machine
“I think that computers will be able to do things that up until now in history would have been seen as only in the realm of possibility of humans.”
Drum machinist and founder of the one-man band SuperFossilPower, Tyler K. Rauman, could easily be talking about advances in cybernetics, or the event horizon in which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence. -
Fringe ArtsSpace Shift
Carl Sagan would be proud—the music and art world is obsessed with space and cosmos-related things. Local art collective and budding label Internet Is Dead is no exception.
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Fringe ArtsConcordia Graduate Dabbles in Painting and Photography
These days, more and more artists seem to be taking on more and more mediums. No longer do we have Vincent van Goghs who focus solely on one mode of expression. We have multi-disciplinary artists who don’t believe in the boundaries of a canvas, lens, material, or whatever way you choose to explore art.
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Fringe ArtsKarkwa First Francophones to Win Polaris
TORONTO (CUP)—After the longest jury deliberation in the indie music prize’s history, Montreal’s Karkwa took home the Polaris star.
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Fringe ArtsLenny Bruce Is Dead! Long Live L—Ahh, Never Mind
“It’s like a joke,” said Ira Glass, “if jokes were supposed to make you sad instead of happy.”
That’s a line taken from the foreword to Jonathan Goldstein’s first novel, Lenny Bruce Is Dead. The book was originally published in 2001 and is being re-released this month by Coach House Books.
