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Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for July and August 2017: CLASSICAL MUSIC & OPERA This summer the OSM will continue Montreal’s 375th anniversary party when it joins forces with the Orchestre Métropolitain and the McGill Symphony Orchestra to present the free outdoor concert Montréal Symphonique on August 19. Presented at the foot of […]
Ron : Hello, Ryan, nice to have you coming back to Just For Laughs. Ryan : Thank you. Ron : Edgy Boundary-Pushing is the title of the new show right? Ryan : (laughing) Yeah and I hope some people see the irony in there. It comes out my act from a joke I did about […]
“All the films in this book share an air of disreputability.” -Charles Taylor (from Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In Near You) I do not often look back to the ‘80’s with fondness; that decade was most unkind to me. But the few bright memories I do retain usually have to do with the […]
Canada’s greatest repertoire cinema hosted a double feature kick off to this year’s Montreal Jazzfest. The main film was Chasing Trane a documentary on legendary jazz saxophonist, John Coltrane. The film is directed by John Scheinfeld, best known for his documentary the People vs John Lennon. The first film of the night was, Oscar, about […]
“Cheers Montreal!” shouted Chad Kroeger several times as he downed yet another of his in between songs Jagermeister shots at last night’s Montreal Nickelback concert. It showed if nothing that his band was having a good time along with the audience who were singing along, playing air guitar or drums, and punching their fists up […]
Elon Gold is a comedian and actor who has starred in FOX’s ‘Stacked’ and NBC’s ‘In-Laws.’ His one-hour stand up special, ‘Chosen and Taken,’ currently out on Netflix, has been getting rave reviews from fans and critics alike. He has made appearances on ‘The Tonight Show’ and had a recurring role on the hit […]
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Bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer walked on stage and broke into s jam session. Then singer Anthony Kiedis stomped up to sing the first of the band’s hour and forty-five minute set, Around The World.
When life does not turn out the way it was expected, when faced with disappointment, heart-ache, and depression, what can be done? Curl up in a ball? Challenge one-self? Try to find the ludicrousness and humour in the situation? Or a mix of all three? 0 Days Without Crying is a one-woman comedy that tackles […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for June 2017: CLASSICAL MUSIC & OPERA One of the finest operatic singers of his generation, tenor John Mac Master co-stars in the McGill Chamber Orchestra’s much-anticipated June 6 production of Carmina Burana, a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and 1936, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Mac Master […]