Culture

Expat Asian artists fall short as cultural ambassadors of their motherlands

The Daily’s Whitney Mallett gets the inside scoop on the Montreal drag queen scene

Montreal band Duchess Says can command the party without a full command of the English language

Nadine Gordimer fails to reinvigorate her pet themes in her new short story collection

A Silver Mt. Zion helped make their neighbourhood the cultural Mecca it is today. On their new album, they do something unexpected – apologize.

I’m lying in bed, reading, and my girlfriend George (short for Georgina) is there beside me, reading too. Suddenly, I laugh out loud. George turns… Read More »The Hipless Boy: Killing, eating

Every few years, a cult classic emerges from the morass of contemporary Canadian film. In 2002 it was Men With Brooms; last year, it was… Read More »No hockey allowed in Canada’s next cult film, Rock, Paper, Scissors

There’s something tragic about monuments built to an optimism that faded decades ago. The Soviet Union’s contribution to Expo ‘67, for instance: a large, concrete… Read More »Remembrance of times past: This is Montreal!

All the school is a stage While most students are buckling down for term papers and finals right now, the actors, directors and theatre nerds… Read More »Culture Briefs

Japan’s National Film Center is not afraid to air its dirty laundry in an anime retrospective at the Cinémathèque Québecoise

In the third installment of The Daily’s four-part series on cultural tastemakers in Montreal,

CBC Radio 2 is kicking classical music off primetime in an effort to woo younger audiences

Prague artist’s exhibit at Parisian Laundry is inspired by the personal changes he’s undergone while living in Canada

“Bono and I had dinner in Dublin. We stayed up till 3:00 in the morning and got totally shitfaced,” Alex Shoumatoff tells me over noodles… Read More »When I grow up I want to be Alex Shoumatoff

What happens when you combine a former Los Angeles b-boy, a classically-trained ballet dancer, and a lot of buzz? You get Rubberbandance Group (RBDG), the… Read More »Rubberbanddance’s new act