Category: Arts & Culture

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India in an instant

January 21, 1998

Shanti Zachariah gives us a guide to the sights, sounds and smells of Little India

Down with Dickens? Get thee to Twist!

January 21, 1998

By Shawne Fagan If the rock music Twist proves anything, it’s that pre-millennial tension is alive and well. Set in post-civil war America, 20 years in the future, Twist paints a bleak picture of a debauched society wrought with unsavory characters and little hope. Based loosely on the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist, the tale […]

A mega interview with metal mavens Megadeth

January 21, 1998

Metalhead Elias Takacs catches up with metalmeister Nick Menza

Breaking down the barriers

January 14, 1998

Buddies in Bad Times transcends the mundane

Hold me thrill me kiss me kill me

January 14, 1998

New Aussie film ain’t no Bonnie and Clyde

(Our Lady) Peace breaks out in the U.S.

January 14, 1998

For most new Canadian bands, making it big in America is only a dream. The American music market is as hard to crack as a bank safe and even months of touring won’t guarantee stateside success.

Hamlet in da House (Oakham, that is)

November 26, 1997

By Jill Koskitalo There is only one thing better than watching a show with lots of sex and violence on TV. Watching one live. The Oakham House Theatre Society has recognized the basic mass market appeal of sex and violence and in effort to cash in, is presenting the comedy I Hate Hamlet. The story […]

A green day at Rye High

November 26, 1997

By Stephanie Bomba Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue… No, it’s not a Romper Room (or acid) flashback. It’s a description of the hair colours sported by the pubescent audience at last Wednesday’s free Green Day concert in the alley behind the Ryerson parking garage. Punksters started lining up […]

The Dalai Lama of jazz

November 26, 1997

Fifteen years after his death, Thelonious Monk's music still perplexes

PopCan: Forging out national identity

November 26, 1997

Canadian music is as unique to our national as Bob and Doug Mackenzie

Life ain’t a box of moonlight

November 19, 1997

By Adam Kozyra With Box of Moonlight, writer and director Tom DiCillo transforms America’s Independence Day from an orgy of pompous hype to a time for reflection and gratitude. Box of Moonlight is a comment on the rigid suburban life most Americans lead. Set in a real-world fantasy, DiCillo uses the characters to create an […]

Chasing Martin Short

November 19, 1997

By Sean Fitz-Gerald Am I an asshole? Last Wednesday night I acted on a tip from a friend who said Martin Short was going to be making a guest appearance at The Second City comedy club. I called the club and asked if I could show up and do a “colour” piece on the place […]

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