Pierre-Luc Clement seems to like controlled chaos. The guitarist, bassist and occasional sampler and co-founder of the Gatineau-based band FET.NAT has found that he's not afraid of heights when he makes music with his friends JfNo (vocals), Linsey Wellman (saxophones) and Olivier Fairfield (percussion). If you
Julian Armour is always juggling concerts. He programs literally dozens and dozens each year in his summer festival Music and Beyond. His goal is to control the chaos onto a one page grid where the entire two weeks appears and can be visualized immediately. Every year the
Michael Curtis Hanna is getting together with some of his musical friends June 29 on a stage at the Ottawa Jazz Festival. It's something the Ottawa-area singer likes to do. And in many ways, this show is part of the fulfillment of a lifelong connection
Nick Feldman's musical journey is a long and winding one. After leaving the University of Liverpool he joined a booking agent and started signing bands for gigs and more. One of his first inkings was Adam and the Ants. Feldman started getting more and more involved
Josephine, a burlesque cabaret dream play Dynamite Lunchbox Entertainment, Orlando, U.S.A. Three days into the festival and Josephine is already packing the house. Little wonder: like her subject — 20th-century performer, activist and gourmand of life Josephine Baker -—Tymisha Harris’s portrayal is intelligent, textured and immensely entertaining. Baker
God of Carnage Stendhal X, Montreal “We’re always on our own everywhere,” says one of the characters toward the end of God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza’s acute 2006 play about the fragility of our civilized veneer. That aloneness is precisely what Stendhal X’s adaptation spotlights as we
The process has formally begun to replace National Gallery Director Marc Mayer with a call on a federal website for candidates interested in the job. This was expected as Mayer indicated earlier this spring that, after a decade in his position, he would not seek, nor
Fool Muun Komming The Invisible Theater of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, U.S.A. Is loneliness — and the attempt to ward it off by creating fictional worlds inside our own heads — the common thread that connects us with aliens from outer space? No doubt about it, according to Fool Muun
There's nothing Kevin Loring, actor, likes more than a voice over gig on an animation. These days, Loring is the artistic director of the new Indigenous Theatre department at the National Arts Centre and he doesn't have a lot of time for acting gigs. But before
Mention the word “armour” and the imagination fires — those knights in their polished suits of steel, their mighty steeds snorting, their fair maidens cheering as dragons are slain. That’s the romantic imagination, anyhow. Few people think of armour as it’s still so commonly used
