Tuesday Night Movie: Juan of the Dead
This Cuban zombie flick and Fantasia hit, says our reviewer, is “possibly Cuba’s most significant export since the hand-rolled cigar.”
Back 2 skool: we don’t need no education!
Some Quebec students above the age of 16 may not have pencils and notebooks on their minds (do kids even use those things anymore?!). Instead, they may be wondering if they’re even going back to school at all.
Today’s Sounds: Aaron Lumley
Wildly popular as a solo instrument since Haydn and cohorts wrote upright bass concertos in the 1700s, the bull fiddle is a most versatile axe. Extended techniques such as percussive tapping and bowing near the bridge can emit everything from canyon-deep echoes to rainbows of shifting harmonics. This enabled modern composers such as Scelsi to write solo works based on a single pitch that rely on the range of sounds a bass can produce to sustain interest.
Montreal: more pride than ever
It’s Pride week again. Check out some events you’ll kick yourself for missing — so don’t miss them!
On the walls: The week in cult/ure
A guide to cultural events happening around town this week, including the Omnivore World Tour at the SAT, Montreal Italian Week, a 2-QTPOC art show and new shows hitting gallery walls.
Under Pressure Street Style
Montreal’s skaters, b-boys and b-girls came out in droves last weekend for Under Pressure, the city’s annual graffiti festival. Cult MTL sent scouts to show you how they looked.
Hey kids, get outta my backyard!
As the leaves start trembling and ready themselves to be torn asunder from their branches to slowdance to the ground in their demise…yeesh, did I just write that? Okay, I might’ve torn a page out of my grade school journal there so, uh, let me have another crack at an intro. When the Main once again gets carpeted in Technicolor two-dollar chow mein/PBR puke, you don’t need a calendar to know that school is dangerously close to being in session.
Papo & Yo: Monster Memories
Our gaming correspondent talks to local creator Vander Caballero of Minority Media about his innovative, highly personal new game Papo & Yo.
Tuesday Night Movie: Ruby Sparks
Our reviewer is enchanted by the charms of star/screenwriter Zoe Kazan in this magic-realist rom-com, also starring indie stalwart Paul Dano.
Tuesday, Aug. 14
* Heavy sounds of Jucifer, Squalor, Lion Farm
* Italian Week film screening, La ragazza del lago
* Fire detecting chicks
* Literary Pride throughout Montreal
* Retro movie screening of Annie Hall at Cinéma du Parc
* Last chance to get your Jaws-mares