AltWeeklies Wire
This Street Fighter Club is Serious About its Devotion to the Gamenew
There was a time in the ’90s where fighting games (most two players battling head-to-head in an arena, using six attack buttons and a joystick to deplete their opponents’ lifebar) were seemingly the favourite pastime of nearly every young male in North America.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
03-19-2010 |
Tech
Sasha Van Bon Bon Recalls Her Striptease Days in Her Stage Memoir 'Neon Nightz'new
For Sasha Van Bon Bon, there is an odd sense of nostalgia about the ’90s. The Mirror’s veteran sex columnist, who’s been doling out sage advice on all things carnal to readers for over 15 years, worked as a stripper for much of that decade.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
03-12-2010 |
Theater
Games, Games, Go Away: Activists Protest the Vancouver Olympicsnew
Formed in Vancouver, the Olympic Resistance Network began mobilizing with the slogan “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land.” Stolen, because most of the territories in British Columbia were never settled with treaties, like the rest of Canada.
Montreal Mirror |
Roxane Hudon |
02-12-2010 |
Sports
Montreal Photojournalist Chronicles the Plight of Indian Climate Refugeesnew
François Pesant has had a busy 2010. The 34-year-old Montreal photojournalist arrived back home on Tuesday, Jan. 12, from five months in India and Sri Lanka. That same day, the 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, destroying Port-au-Prince. He left five days later.
Montreal Mirror |
Patrick Lejtenyi |
02-12-2010 |
Art
D’bi.young Continues Exploring at the Festival Voix d’Amériquesnew
She’s a dub poet, author, actor, playwright, teacher and social activist. But d’bi.young insists, “It’s all storytelling.” For the Jamaican-Canadian artist, there’s enough cooking on every burner to make the rest of us look like hopeless slackers.
Montreal Mirror |
Neil Boyce |
02-05-2010 |
Performance
Montreal's Edgy Women Festival Breaks Down Barriers and Wants You to Do the Samenew
Living on the edge of arts, disciplines and gender politics for six nights only is the Edgy Women Festival, Studio 303’s annual celebration of boundary pushing artists.
Montreal Mirror |
Lina Harper |
03-13-2009 |
Performance
Aloha Icebergs: Winter Surfers on the St. Lawrence Go With the Floesnew
Montreal surfboard maker Corran Addison and a small group of truly hardcore surfing junkies have taken to surfing noted local spots on the St. Lawrence River and the Richelieu River in Chambly in the dead of winter — when the only things typically hanging are icicles.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
01-30-2009 |
Sports
Montreal Company Pops the Smoothie Market with Fair Guarananew
What makes Goarana different, says Jerome Pelletier, is that it tries to maintain respectful relations both with the producers and the environment of the Brazilian Amazon, where the plant is grown.
Montreal Mirror |
Matt Jones |
01-30-2009 |
Food+Drink
Geocachers Take the Treasure Hunt into the 21st Centurynew
Right under our collective noses, geocachers are placing small caches in ingenious places, uploading the GPS coordinates onto the official geocaching website and competing with each other to be the first to find these hidden treasures. The sport of geocaching has over 3,300 official participants in Quebec, and caches in every corner of Montreal.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
08-05-2008 |
Recreation
Iranian-American Comic Maz Jobrani Helps East Meet Westnew
From making fun of his heritage by saying Iranians refuse to be called anything but Persian (like the cat, he says) to teaching the crowd how to pronounce the current president’s name (Ahmed I'mma-need-a-job), Jobrani serves as a light-hearted diplomat in the ever-growing gap between the East and West.
Montreal Mirror |
Narcel X |
07-11-2008 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Finding an Affordable Crystal Dildonew
"I only found a couple sites that seemed to carry such a thing and they were in the rather prohibitive range of $600-$1,700. I don't want glass, pretty as those can be; ideally, I'd like one in rose quartz, to maximize the loving vibrations. Maybe there's a Stevie Nicks-endorsed line out there I missed?"
Montreal Mirror |
Sasha |
05-09-2008 |
Advice
Tags: advice columns
'Rainbow Six Vegas 2' is Not Quite a Pot of Goldnew
Sometimes one botched sequel is enough to send the money train off the tracks. Ubisoft Montreal's latest is not that sequel -- in fact, it's quite enjoyable -- but arguably not as good as the first Vegas and not a great example of the company's desire to create engaging characters and storylines.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
04-25-2008 |
Video Games
Free Local Digs Help Couch Surfing Reinvent Hospitalitynew
The four-year-old non-profit Couch Surfing is taking intercultural exchanges beyond your token social networking tool. The web-based initiative facilitates connections between like-minded travelers intent on experiencing life abroad at a safe distance from all handicams and fanny packs.
Montreal Mirror |
Michael-Oliver Harding |
04-11-2008 |
Travel
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
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
