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Montreal, The Packaged City with Montreal in a Box
Company puts the best of the city into a box. A perfect gift. [read more]
Articles by Alice Isac
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GOT Wiggle? A Game of Thrones Burlesque Show
South Park’s take on Game of Thrones paid homage to the wieners. Does the Burlesque show by Delrium Burlesque go further? [read more]
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Casse-Noisette Cracks Smiles
Review of annual ballet by a Nutcracker newbie. [read more]
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Best Movie Scenes on Stage : Review of Tarantino In Concert
Was it better as a film or as theatre? Scenes and music from Quentin Tarantino’s best movies came to the stage as part of the Montreal Jazz Fest. [read more]
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M.I.A.’s New Video Really is Trouble
The controversial new video Double Bubble Trouble shows that M.I.A. is badass. [read more]
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Midsummer is the Unromantic Concert-Play You’ve Been Waiting For
Comedy about Edinburgh duo is the perfect rom-com combo of crime and music. [read more]
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Pink, Lacey, and Racy : Marie Antoinette Ballet
The Houston Ballet brings the decadence and lavish life of French royalty to Place des Arts. [read more]
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Sculpting a Conceptual Ballet with Rodin / Claudel
Rodin/Claudel transforms traditional ballet with this sculptural, choreographed piece about the tense relationship between two sculptors. [read more]
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Montreal Burlesgeek Takes the Marvel Universe Down to its Underoos
You’ve never seen the superhero universe get this hot until you’ve seen Burlesgeek. The show at Sala Rosa proves that geeks do it better. [read more]
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Report from the Front Lines of Igloofest (the January 25th Edition)
Claude Vonstroke and Justin Martin were on the decks, and packed conditions made crowd surfing the only way to get some fresh air. [read more]
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This is How You Lose Her Won’t Lose You
Never one to shy away from difficult subjects, Diaz’ This is How You Lose Her is a tour de force of language while presenting realistic and complex relationships. [read more]
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A Feminist Memo From Queen Bey? New Visual Album Generates Questions
Beyoncé’s unpublicized release of The Visual Album shows off her marketing genius, but is the message in the accompanying videos a feminist one? [read more]
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Pharrell’s 24 Hours of Happy
If cold weather and snow has you down, Pharrell Williams’ video may have a salutary effect. [read more]
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Review: Kavinsky Still Running On OutRun
Reviewer Isac finds Kavinsky’s show stale and kind of sweaty, but not in a good way. [read more]
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Review: Ranee Lee at the Upstairs
Quick review of Ranee Lee’s performance at the Upstairs. [read more]