AltWeeklies Wire
Peeved Reevesnew
At an assembly-line celebrity interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, Thumbsucker star Keanu Reeves tells journalists as little as possible.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
10-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
School of Hard Rocknew
Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen take an anthropological look at the people who live and die for heaviosity in their new documentary.
Montreal Mirror |
Sarah Rowland |
10-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
D.I.Y. Eroticanew
Disenchanted with the state of mainstream pornography, a Canadian collective made a documentary about its quest to create indie porn.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
09-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Death Chamber Musicnew
Finland's Apocalyptica are more than a mere marriage of classical and heavy metal.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
09-16-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
What Stinks and What Rocks at Toronto Film Festivalnew
Director Cameron Crowe fast became the joke of the 30th Toronto International Film Festival while several unexpected indie gems and countless Asian sensations garnered praise.
Montreal Mirror |
Sarah Rowland |
09-16-2005 |
Movies
Off the Wall?new
A new pilot project aims to centralize and standardize
concert posters on downtown Montreal billboards. City
officials are looking for a way to work with advertisers and
diminish illegal postings, most of which are for small bands
playing the bar circuit.
Montreal Mirror |
Pohanna Pyne |
08-19-2005 |
Recreation
Tags: bars & clubs
Flesh and Bloodnew
"It all seemed supremely perverse," said Carly Pope, upon
first reading the script of this boundary-pushing, incest-
laden black comedy by indie director Larry Kent. It's one
of the most talked-about films at the World Film Festival.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
08-19-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Larry Kent, The Hamster Cage
Seeking Alternatives to Gas Guzzlersnew
With gas prices through the roof, a handful of Quebecers are converting their own cars to biodiesel vehicles. The DIY
combination of vegetable oil, animal fat and cooking oil is intriguing to green-minded drivers, although it hasn't taken off just yet.
Montreal Mirror |
Patrick Lejtenyi |
08-19-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Montreal Visionary Seeks to Reform Co-op Movementnew
Douglas Jack thinks the cooperative movement need a philosophical overhaul, and he proposes an Inca-inspired method of accounting for contributed labor.
Montreal Mirror |
Kristian Gravenor |
08-11-2005 |
Business & Labor
Growing Grassroots in Beirutnew
Even after the U.S. and France forced Syria to withdraw from Lebanon, many Lebanese are skeptical of or reject Western interference in Lebanese internal affairs.
Montreal Mirror |
Stefan Christoff |
08-05-2005 |
International
Ring Leader of Korean Filmnew
With his latest boxing masterpiece and martial arts comedy, Ryu Seung-wan is on a quest to keep Korean film at the forefront both at home and abroad.
Montreal Mirror |
Sarah Rowland |
07-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
UN Negotiations on Biosafety Go Nowherenew
The Canadian government initially barred Dr. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, a leading opponent of genetically modified food, from participating in the United Nations' Biosafety Protocol negotiations in Montreal.
Montreal Mirror |
Ken Hechtman |
06-10-2005 |
Politics
My Big Fat Hip Weddingnew
In her memoir of growing up as one of the white minority on the upper West Side of New York, Susan Jane Gilman speaks to heterosexual feminists and second-generation hipsters.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
01-17-2005 |
Nonfiction
Indie Kid Talks About the Campaign, Religion and Musicnew
Conor Oberst, the star of Bright Eyes, says he wants to write songs about whatever inspires him -- including politics. His band is releasing two new CDs.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
01-17-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Author Expects Bitter Fight in Iraq to Continuenew
The Toronto author who covered the invasion of Iraq for Harper's asks when Americans will realize that the vestige of democracy is gone and they're living under a totalitarian regime.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-08-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
