AltWeeklies Wire
These Guns for Hirenew
EA Montreal's Army of Two pairs mercenaries, kills terrorists and sidesteps politics.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
03-07-2008 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Quebec Filmmakers Recoil at Funding Threatsnew
The legislation would allow the federal Heritage ministry to yank funding for movies or TV shows that contain "excessive" portrayals of violence and sex.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
03-07-2008 |
Movies
Onward, Christian Radionew
A New York religious radio station tries to save the souls of wayward Montrealers.
Montreal Mirror |
Genevieve Marshall |
03-07-2008 |
Religion
Tags: religion
Hungry and Restless and Wicked and Wildnew
Plants and Animals escape music school, evade pigeonholes and celebrate their street (minus McDonald's) with Parc Avenue.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
02-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Parc Avenue, Plants and Animals
Robbie Tucker, Action Mannew
The Montreal musician has a million-dollar idea for taking on Parkinson's disease.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
02-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Green Room, Robbie Tucker
Menace Ruine Are Darker Than Thounew
Ominous, chaotic, brooding, violent and punishing are all adjectives befitting the music of this Montreal duo.
Montreal Mirror |
Johnson Cummins |
02-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cult of Ruins, Menace Ruine
'Charlie Bartlett' Makes the Gradenew
Strong writing and great performances make this more
than just another teen movie.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
02-22-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Charlie Bartlett, John Poll
Love is the Bug in 'My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead'new
Cold hearts rule in this Jeffrey Eugenides collection.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
02-22-2008 |
Fiction
Taking on the Israel Lobbynew
Mearsheimer discusses his controversial book and the firestorm surrounding it.
Montreal Mirror |
Patrick Lejtenyi |
02-22-2008 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Montreal's Job Market Can Be Brutal & Bizarre for Unilingual Newcomersnew
Even if we anglos do manage to find a job, chances are the work will be so demeaning and mind-numbing that we'll be forced to either learn French or return to our homes. In either case, French Montreal has nothing to fear from us.
Montreal Mirror |
David Ravensbergen |
02-22-2008 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Bleak Streetnew
British kitchen-sink realism meets crime drama in the atmospheric but underdeveloped London to Brighton.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
02-08-2008 |
Reviews
Plan de Villenew
Montreal rap mainstay Stratège speaks up about the plight of French hip hop in Quebec.
Montreal Mirror |
Scott C |
02-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Back en Solo, Stratege
Gonna Make You Sweaternew
Leslie and the Ly's rule the web with rhymes, moves and threads.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
02-08-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Leslie and the LY's, Cewebrity
Marked for Lifenew
Ahead of the Sneaker Pimps Montreal event, graffiti legend Futura 2000 reflects on tagging as urban telecom, cancelling the art-star ego trip and his baptism of fire in the bowels of the Big Apple.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
02-08-2008 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Roundabout Romancenew
Imitation is a beautiful but meandering Montreal story.
Montreal Mirror |
Jeffrey Malecki |
01-31-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Federico Hidalgo, Imitation
