On the cover: Montreal house producer Miguel Graça, with a pineapple. “I really get inspired by the energy of dawn, or of being in a house on a mountain, overlooking the ocean—it’s that similar sense of well-being,” he says. “That’s what I try to portray in my music—I try to make you feel good.”
•                 Roger Lemoyne’s Photo of the Week captures some of the 19,000 Warped Tour attendees hurling bottles through the air during Jurassic 5’s set.
•                 Vidiot’s Box reviews the release of Westworld (“Yul Brynner fills the role of the robot cowboy with serious menace) and its sequel Futureworld (“the body-snatching conspiracy at its centre is delightfully nutty”).
•                 “If Irvine Welsh is Scotland’s William Burroughs, then Ian Rankin is its Raymond Chandler,” reads the review of the 11th Inspector Rebus novel Set in Darkness.
•                 “The idea of the sexually confident sex worker (read Camille Paglia) is certainly one that merits attention but it often overlooks the fact that many strippers, like many women, are insecure maniacs,” writes Sasha.

See the full article from “Montreal Mirror”

Montreal Just For Laughs 2011: Ari Shaffir’s ‘So I’m Fucking This Girl, Right?’ Review by Steve Bennett
Man, comics are a seedy bunch of amoral assholes. Or at least a good proportion of comics who perform at in a strip club, at midnight, in a show called So I’m Fucking This Girl Right? are.
The idea, presumably, is to give the audience vicarious enjoyment through the wild road tales of horny young men free of responsibility or moral compass. But oftentimes, most notably with the shows creator and compere Ari Shaffir, it all comes across as miserably tragic, as the sex-starved performers use desperate prostitutes or take back to their hotel rooms women they consider pig-ugly, mentally unstable or STD-ridden (or possibly all three) for pathetic, empty encounters.
Lets not be prudish here, as theres often nothing better than a filthy sex story. Bur Shaffir doesnt seem to have the self-awareness that would put the joke on him. He gets laughs because he employs the cadence and rhythm of an experienced stand-up, but were they written down, his stories, which contain little in the way of punchlines, would surely seem more sad than funny.

See the full article from “Chortle”

Montreal Just For Laughs 2011: Eugene Mirman And Pretty Good Friends Review by Steve Bennett
Surely this is a no-brainer? Pay top-dollar to see one of the televised Just For Laughs galas in its far-from-intimate aircraft hangar of a theatre  or just $15 to see Eugene Mirman, Adam Hills, The Pajama Men, Hannibal Buress and Jackie Kashian in the sort of grungy venue in which comedy belongs. In this case, a fringe rock venue above a skate shop sitting amid Montreals strip clubs.
Mirmans magnet for indie comics is one of the best-loved nights in New York, but has shifted north for a week to make use of the talent flooding into Montreal. Its billed as a distinctive format  it isnt really, just a compere and four acts but the sensibilities are certainly at a pleasing angle to the mainstream.

See the full article from “Chortle”

Ten individuals allegedly flaunting Rock Machine colours were spotted in a downtown Montreal strip club on Thursday. Montreal is considered territory of the notorious Hells Angels biker gang which fought battled the Rock Machine between 1994 and 2002, leaving 160 people dead.
The Rock Machine’s Quebec presence ended in the early 2000s after many of its members were killed and its assets seized by police.
Some Rock Machiners defected to the Hells, others retired, but their presence in Montreal last week lends credence to the fears that the gang is back.
James Dubro and Antonio Nicaso, two well-known organized crime experts, said the spotting of the Rock Machine in Montreal is a sign that the Hells are seen as weak.
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The choice to show off in Montreal’s Chez Paree strip club is symbolic.

See the full article from “Toronto Sun”

Ten individuals allegedly flaunting Rock Machine colours were spotted in a downtown Montreal strip club on Thursday. Montreal is considered territory of the notorious Hells Angels biker gang which fought battled the Rock Machine between 1994 and 2002, leaving 160 people dead.
The Rock Machine’s Quebec presence ended in the early 2000s after many of its members were killed and its assets seized by police.
Some Rock Machiners defected to the Hells, others retired, but their presence in Montreal last week lends credence to the fears that the gang is back.
James Dubro and Antonio Nicaso, two well-known organized crime experts, said the spotting of the Rock Machine in Montreal is a sign that the Hells are seen as weak.
…
The choice to show off in Montreal’s Chez Paree strip club is symbolic.

See the full article from “London Free Press”

Montreal’s Fantasia Festival turns 15 this year, a sweet milestone for a grassroots event that now sprawls across three weeks every summer with an international array of horror, sci-fi, action, Asian, comedy and suspense flicks. There’s a deep focus on the auteur, as well as the often cultish actors and crew behind fabled genre classics—oldies like The Wicker Man and Shivers were honored—plus guys like special-effects master Tom Savini hanging out, generating mayhem through their sheer badass aura.
The festival, which runs through Aug. 7, is huge enough to practically consume a huge chunk of the recent New York Asian Film Festival, for instance, purely as one of its many sidebars. Taste-wise, it’s also exceptionally catholic, embracing everything from mumblegore (Adam Wingard’s A Horrible Way to Die and What Fun We Are Having: 4 Stories About Date Rape) to wildly out of print Oz-ploitation sagas like Ted Kotcheff’s beer-drenched Outback insanity Wake in Fright. It’s not just blood, beasts and babes with big boobs—although there’s plenty of that, too, and not just at the celebrated strip clubs of Rue St. Catherine, conveniently around the corner from the festival venues at Concordia University.

See the full article from “GreenCine”

Human rights advocates hailed the uncharacteristically severe sentence as a landmark ruling Friday.
“For those of us who have been critical of the committee’s timid approach in the past, the decision is like a ray of hope in that it confirms that racial profiling is unacceptable and can lead to other sanctions,” said Fo Niemi, executive director of the Centre for Research Action on Race Relations.
The case stems from the night of Nov. 9, 2008, when Philippe Gauthier and his partner were on patrol, trying to identify members of motorcycle and street gangs.
The officers spotted Vens-Cols Edmond sitting in the passenger seat of a car outside Le Garage Motel St-Pierre strip bar in St. Jérôme at around 3 a.m. Edmond was waiting to pick up his wife, a dancer.

See the full article from “Montreal Gazette”

Human rights advocates hailed the uncharacteristically severe sentence as a landmark ruling Friday.
“For those of us who have been critical of the committee’s timid approach in the past, the decision is like a ray of hope in that it confirms that racial profiling is unacceptable and can lead to other sanctions,” said Fo Niemi, executive director of the Centre for Research Action on Race Relations.
The case stems from the night of Nov. 9, 2008, when Philippe Gauthier and his partner were on patrol, trying to identify members of motorcycle and street gangs.
The officers spotted Vens-Cols Edmond sitting in the passenger seat of a car outside Le Garage Motel St-Pierre strip bar in St. Jérôme at around 3 a.m. Edmond was waiting to pick up his wife, a dancer.

See the full article from “Montreal Gazette”

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Human rights advocates hailed the uncharacteristically severe sentence as a landmark ruling Friday
âœFor those of us who have been critical of the committeeâs timid approach in the past, the decision is like a ray of hope in that it confirms that racial profiling is unacceptable and can lead to other sanctions,â said Fo Niemi, executive director of the Centre for Research Action on Race Relations.
The case stems from the night of Nov. 9, 2008, when Philippe Gauthier and his partner were on patrol, trying to identify members of motorcycle and street gangs.
The officers spotted Vens-Cols Edmond sitting in the passenger seat of a car outside the Le Garage Motel St-Pierre strip bar in St. Jérôme at around 3 a.m. Edmond was waiting to pick up his wife, a dancer.

See the full article from “Montreal Gazette”