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Books: Boumeries: Volume 1

by Kevin Laforest – November 3, 2011

This collection of four-panel comic strips by Montreal filmmaker, animator and illustrator Samantha Leriche-Gionet, a.k.a. Boum, was first published in journal form online. Often following self-imposed challenges ("Hourly Comic Day," ...

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Books: Monsters in the Movies

by Kevin Laforest – October 27, 2011

Just in time for Halloween comes this terrific tome documenting the countless vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, mummies, giant apes and lizards, demons, aliens, robots and other scary figures that have ...

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Marc Kelly Smith: Guess who’s coming to slam?

by Stanley Péan (translated by Kevin Laforest) – September 15, 2011

This year, the Grand Slam welcomes none other than the founder of the poetry slam movement, Marc Kelly Smith.

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Books: Roadsworth

by Kristof G. – September 8, 2011

You may have seen the eponymously titled documentary film (subtitled Crossing the Line) that came out a few years ago. If you’ve been living in Montreal for the past decade, ...

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Books: A Book of Readers

by Kevin Laforest – September 8, 2011

In a world increasingly dominated by iPads, iPhones and other electronic devices, photographer George S. Zimbel pays tribute to old-fashioned paper and ink in A Book of Readers (Le Livre ...

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Montreal's Irish Mafia: The True Story of the Infamous West End Gang: Cocaine co-operative

April 21, 2011

In this excerpt from D'Arcy O'Connor's Montreal's Irish Mafia, Frank "Dunie" Ryan, Godfather of Montreal's Irish mob in the 1970s and 80s, takes on the local Italian mafia.

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Meltdown in A major

by Kevin Laforest – April 21, 2011

I discovered The Dears in May 2003, when I saw them do a show at Club Soda, almost by accident. I was actually there to catch opening act Moufette and, ...