AltWeeklies Wire
Fall Books Preview: Run for Covernew
Spooks, Vietnam vets, Jews with swords and a superstore apocalypse are coming at you this fall.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
09-14-2007 |
Books
Fall Film Preview: Autumn-atic Cinemanew
Monster mists, killer aliens, steamy sex scenes and much more fall into cinemas this season.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
09-14-2007 |
Movies
Boys Noize Gets Skull-Fuckednew
Berlin's Alex Ridha releases a cranium-crushing new album, doesn't give a damn about copycats.
Montreal Mirror |
Jack Oatmon |
09-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Boys Noize, Oi Oi Oi
Freakin' and Tweakin' with Dan Deaconnew
The sublime and the ridiculous collide in
the work of the Baltimore musician.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg |
09-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dan Deacon
RoyalCon Gathers Analog Role-Players Under One Tentnew
In Montreal, where every fringe activity has a festival, it's hard to believe role-playing games, of the card and board variety, have been so, until last year, horribly neglected.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
09-14-2007 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
Canada Exists, Sanjania Doesn’tnew
Stephen Mache's fictional anthology, Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, has cultural challenges remarkably similar to Canada's.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
09-07-2007 |
Fiction
Innovative Documentary Puts a Human Face on Iraq Warnew
José Antonio Gutierrez was a blip on the media radar, the first U.S. soldier to be killed in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The film looks at Gutierrez's life rather than create an anti-Bush screed.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
09-07-2007 |
Reviews
Milos Forman Returns to Form with 'Goya's Ghosts'new
For the director of such classics as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, Milos Forman fell off pretty hard in recent years with The People vs. Larry Flynt and Man in the Moon.
Montreal Mirror |
Malcolm Fraser |
09-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Goya's Ghosts, Milos Forman
300 Guns and a Babynew
Don't be fooled by the overblown, leather-clad machismo, profusion of violence or terrible one-liners -- once you realize that Shoot 'Em Up is not taking itself too seriously, it gets much better, giving Clive Owen license to engage in all manner of absurd gun-slinging with an infant in his backpack.
Montreal Mirror |
Jeffrey Malecki |
09-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Davis, Shoot 'Em Up
Deakin Bowes Out of Animal Collective Tournew
The guitarist also known as Josh Dibb hasn't quit, he's just sitting this one out as the rest of the group tours to support Strawberry Jam.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
09-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Animal Collective, Strawberry Jam
?uestlove Discusses Hip-hop, Party Music & Flavor Flavnew
"Hip-hop isn’t really allowed the range that rock music and other types of music are allowed to get away with," he says.
Montreal Mirror |
Scott C |
09-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: ?uestlove
Montreal Mirror's Must-See List for Osheaganew
Having proven itself a well-oiled machine, and arguably the most courteous and considerate of music fests, Montreal's Osheaga event returns with an equally impressive line-up this weekend. Acts include M.I.A., Feist, Interpol, Macy Gray, Arctic Monkeys and of course Smashing Pumpkins.
Montreal Mirror |
Rupert Bottenberg, Lorraine Carpenter and Johnson Cummins |
09-07-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts
M.I.A. Turns a Difficult Year into a Strong Second Albumnew
After breaking up with Diplo, being barred from the States and facing the pressures of the "difficult second album" (for a major U.S. label, no less) made for a very turbulent 2006. But it also produced Kala, and a work ethic that's become M.I.A.'s manifesto.
Montreal Mirror |
Lorraine Carpenter |
09-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Montreal's Annual Battle of the Gross Returnsnew
Now in its sixth glorious year, Fear and Loathing in Montreal will feature evangelical Satanists, a "gnarly" eating contest, "ultra-violent" wrestling and the Excruciating Pain Endurance Contest.
Montreal Mirror |
Chris Barry |
08-30-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Metal in Montrealnew
When the underground metal scene first reared its acne-infested head with a windswept mop on top, Montreal was a top contender for metal supremacy. Sunday's concert brings it all back home.
Montreal Mirror |
Johnson Cummins |
08-30-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: Metal Made in Quebec, concerts
