By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up michael@yahoo.ca Mexican Chicken Tortilla Lime Soup One of the best antidotes to a cold winter night is a hot bowl of chicken soup. My preference, to those who know me, has always been for food that is boldly flavoured. This soup is a favourite of mine; it incorporates all […]
Song of Spider-Man by Glen Berger (Simon & Schuster, $28.99)
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtians Up! “…this whole book is a story about storytelling – the story of an epic attempt by earnest human beings to tell a story and tell it brilliantly.” -Glen Berger Anyone who knows me well is aware that live theater is not my favorite form of entertainment. And that […]
Heavy MTL’s 2014 Raucous and Rollus Lineup Announced
By Rik Roe, for curtainsup.tv 2013 was a Raucous and Rollus Heavy MTL success that had It’s festival goers absorbing waves of sound, talent, and festivities. 2014 is continuing the tradition. Heavy Montreal has just rolled out its 2014 edition lineup for its 6th annual installment of the “loudest” festival of the summer, taking place at Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau […]
Lucky 13 with Ian Dillon from Electric Revival
Lucky 13= 13 questions+13 answers = a whole lot-ta fun. Electric Revival is a popular underground Rock band. Frontman Ian Dillon took time out of his hectic schedule ( the group is currently on tour) to talk about life on the road, performing live and their latest album. Electric Revival Q&A with Abby from Curtains […]
Verdun under fire in Motherhouse (War’s a bitch!)
By Sharman Yarnell War takes lives but leaves many memories – some good, some bad. The tentacles of War spread out through countries and into the small neighourhoods, grasping the hearts, souls and daily lives of the people. Verdun was no exception. David Fennario’s, Motherhouse, looks back at the influence War had on the […]
Weekend and beyond events with Samantha Wexler
Tomorrow is Nuit Blanche and it also kicks off the beginning of the Art SouTerrain Festival! There are so many interesting and cool things to do this weekend that I hope you all have a spectacular time! – Sam Ongoing ** Montreal en Lumière February 20 – March 2, 2014 http://www.montrealenlumiere.com/home.aspx Point-à-Callière’s Port Symphonies until […]
Michael’s Quick, Easy and Delish Dish for the Weekend
By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up michael@yahoo.ca Moroccan Meatballs The land of the Kasbah and Casablanca offers up a cornucopia of delicious and exotic foods with heavy influences from the Moors and Berbers of northern Africa. This boldly flavoured cuisine has been refined over centuries in the royal kitchens of Fes, Rabat and Marrakech. Most […]
Curtains Up on Pompeii
by Joseph Rossi The new disaster movie Pompeii is bad. How bad? Well, not bad as I Frankenstein or last years The Counsellor. Those had the fun sucked out of them when they expected us to take them seriously. Pompeii is bad in a good way. In that what the hell were they thinking […]
The Greatest Movies You’ll Never See by Simon Braund (Cassel Illustrated, $27.99)
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’” -John Greenleaf Whittier There have been innumerable books about the greatest films ever made, (my personal favorites are Roger Ebert’s The Great Movies Volumes I, II and III; a series that will […]
Ongoing, Weekend and Upcoming Goodies with Samantha Wexler
Ongoing Montreal en Lumière February 20 – March 2, 2014 http://www.montrealenlumiere.com/home.aspx Casablanca/Chandigarh at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) until April 20, 2014 http://www.cca.qc.ca/en/exhibitions Peter Doig, No Foreign Lands at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until May 4, 2014 http://peterdoig.mbam.qc.ca/en/ Kent Monkman “Welcome to the Studio” at the McCord Museum, until June 1, 2014 […]