Today’s Sounds: Carly Rae Jepsen

by Erik Leijon

There was once an old female acquaintance of mine who had the most unusual of morning rituals: for breakfast she would eat lightly toasted wonderbread slices with strawberry and chocolate Quik crystals sprinkled on top.
One day, against my better judgement, I asked her for a bite. Naturally it tasted awful, and the powdered mix rubbing up against my rapidly degrading enamel was an unforgettably terrible feeling (an earlier incident, where she bit into a clump of powder and began coughing uncontrollably like those YouTube cinnamon-eating fools, also entered my mind), but there was something about the way the meal looked, gleaming and glittering on the table, that made it oddly enticing.

Pre-Pop gets heavy

by Johnson Cummins

Traditionally, the week before Pop is a calm before the storm, with most clubs laying low before the festival crush, but this year things are already heating up in local venues. Here’s a quick look at the week pre-Pop.

On the Walls

by EMILY RAINE

New vernissages, exhibitions and special fine arts events this week.

Quartier Danses Brings Dance to Your ‘Hood

by MARITES CARINO

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the fall dance fest Quartier Danses, which aims to make contemporary dance accessible by bringing it to your hood. With local and international companies, more than 50 artists take to the stage, parks, alleys and public spaces beyond Montreal’s downtown core for the next 12 days.

Double-spaced Theatre’s Heavy Drama

by RACHEL LEVINE

  New Montreal theatre company Double-spaced Theatre is well named. The drama theory-conscious company is fascinated by the dualities that co-exist and conflict in performance. In keeping with its mission, the company takes on Mick Gordon’s Bea, a study on the limits of empathy around the issue of assisted suicide. Using humour rather than sermonizing, […]

Sang-Froid: Home Game

by Erik Leijon

Finally, a video game about us, by us: local studio Artifice brings us retro-Quebec werewolf game Sang-Froid.