Culture

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

Janet Werner’s saccharine sweet portraits confront us with modern takes on the feminine “ideal”

In the second installment of The Daily’s four-part series on local cultural tastemakers, David Levitz takes a look at the Montreal art scene

Caribou’s mastermind creates his own musical scene from his bedroom

Pop Rock

Babenco’s The Past has all of the elements, but doesn’t work

Music brought Fab and Frannie together when they bumped into each other at a concert a few years ago. The pair bonded over similar musical… Read More »Serendipitous sounds: Montreal’s Random Recipe

A flashing plastic owl, a children’s toy piano and two Arts students – Daily staffer Joshua Frank and Yannick Kuch – were the musical highlights… Read More »Urban Joseph make noise with guitars and Chinese toys

De Salvo and Fogwill’s film Kept and Dreamless is visually pleasant, if a bit vapid

Vancouver slam poetry group hosts a musical orgy – complete with handclaps, banjo and melodica

Chromeo likes to refer to themselves as “the only successful Arab/Jewish collaboration in history,” according to Wikipedia. The tongue-in-cheek comparison is a testament to the… Read More »Chromeo: eighties homage and pure humour

Movies can enrich childhood novels, but recent efforts are often more interested in showing off special effects

Radio-Enfant puts disenfranchised Montreal children

Art workshops for children at the Musée d’art contemporain are fun but imaginatively restrictive

Documentary filmmaker Avi Mograbi takes on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with a measure of bombast, style, and effrontery