AltWeeklies Wire
A South African Crime Legend Gets His Duenew
In Johannesburg, Canadian filmmaker Bronwen Hughes scrapped her original script for Stander and wrote a more subtle story about an ambitious career cop who turned from police work to a life of crime.
Montreal Mirror |
Sarah Rowland |
12-08-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Visitors Flock to See Miracle of Oil-Dripping Iconsnew
Montreal hasn't been kind to modern miracle houses, but skeptics have turned into believers when they visited the living room of Maureen and Clayton Marolly, where oil has been dripping off of the many displayed religious icons since 1994.
Montreal Mirror |
Kristian Gravenor |
12-08-2004 |
Religion
Saving the U.S. from Its Real Journalismnew
Structured like a parody of a high school history textbook, the book is so often on the mark in its satire of American history, institutions and self-centeredness that it may very well end up being used by some high school teacher this year.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
11-04-2004 |
Nonfiction
Author Looks to Unlock Truth of Houdini's Final Vanishing Actnew
J. Gordon Whitehead visited Houdini backstage and punched the master of escape in the stomach. Houdini died a few days later. Was it murder or a dumb prank gone wrong? Don Bell, one of Montreal's great essayists, spent the last two decades of his life tackling the mystery.
Montreal Mirror |
Kristian Gravenor |
11-04-2004 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Staging Dissent: Montreal Theater Activist Reports on Anti-Bush Protestsnew
When our bus reached the crossing, the U.S. border guard decided to editorialize: "Why on Earth would you want to protest? George Bush is the greatest president since Ronald Reagan and George Washington." And then the guard promptly checked everyone's ID and ushered us through.
Montreal Mirror |
Jason McLean |
09-15-2004 |
Politics
