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Cons drop cover charge for foreign musicians

06/30/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher We’re kind of hard on the Conservative government around here, so when it does something right, it’s only fair we note it. You might want to print out and laminate this post for safekeeping as we’re not likely to do this again anytime soon. The government has dumped the fees it was […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Andrew Cash, arts cuts, arts funding, Canada, Canada Council, CBC, Chris Alexander, Conservatives, James Moore, music, National Film Board, NDP, Shelly Glover, Telefilm Canada, Temporary Foreign Workers Program

Coupland all gummed up

06/11/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Apply gum at your own risk. I pull my stick of chewed-up Stride Double Mint gum out of my mouth, and slowly, steadily press it into Douglas Coupland’s cerebellum. We suggest you wash your hands immediately after touching this sculpture. I dutifully heed the advice of the Vancouver Art Gallery and apply […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: British Columbia, Douglas Coupland, Vancouver, visual arts

Bad first compression

04/26/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

A BoB Short When residents of a Northwest Saskatoon neighbourhood heard their street was slated to receive its own piece of public art, many were ecstatic. But when the big reveal finally came last November, the piece was greeted with overwhelming confusion. The result of the city’s $4300 investment, titled Found Compressions One and Two, […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, cities, public art, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, urban life, Vancouver, visual arts

Quebec election: From Lévesque to Marois — an artist’s journey

04/05/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Gaëtan L. Charlebois Many won’t say it out loud, though many others will, but it has been a commonly held belief for over four decades that Quebec culture is superior to culture in the Rest of Canada (ROC). (This will not be the only irritating idea I will share here, so if you can’t […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, Parti Quebecois, Pauline Marois, Quebec, Quebec City, Rene Lévesque, separatism

Pay to play

03/10/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By TJ Dawe Musicians aren’t making money from album sales anymore, people say. They make their money on tour. They’ve been giving their music away themselves since Myspace. CDs are as dead as cassettes. Listen to anything you want on Spotify, Grooveshark, Pandora, YouTube. Bit Torrent it and rip it as you please. It’s damn […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: business, finance, internet, music, online music

The Video: Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Owning Mahowny”

02/03/2014 by the editor 2 Comments

The 2003 Canadian film Owning Mahowny, based on Gary Ross’s book No Limit, was made for pennies. It grossed pennies. But when Philip Seymour Hoffman wanted to play a role, wanted to make a film, he made it. Roger Ebert wrote of his performance: “Philip Seymour Hoffman, that fearless poet of implosion, plays the role […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books, The Video Tagged With: addiction, Canadian film, film

Thank god nobody’s reading this

02/02/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young Is anything private? A few weeks ago I was asked to fill out a survey from the Writer’s Union of Canada about “Spying and Harassment.” The union was asking writers whether living in a surveillance society was having an impact on their work. Years ago a friend was working on a TV […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books, Leiren-Young Tagged With: activism, Canada, CSIS, Facebook, government surveillance, online spying, social media, writers, writing

Why I am a disappointment to J. Kelly Nestruck: Part 2

11/18/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Frank Moher In the last episode of “Kelly and Me,” I wrote about an exchange via twitter with the Globe and Mail theater critic J. Kelly Nestruck, in which he expressed his disappointment in me for supposing that we might not have the full story of what happened on 9/11. That was over a […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: 9/11, 9/11 conspiracy theories, 9/11 Truth, Canada, Globe and Mail, theatre, writing

My Dad’s Lou Reed story

10/28/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon There aren’t too many artists who can bridge the generational divide, or the straight/gay divide, but one of them was Lou Reed. Lou Reed, the singer-songwriter whose darkly poetic recordings as frontman for the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist provided indispensable blueprints for punk, glam, noise rock and nearly every […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: music

Smooth as Glass

10/24/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh I haven’t been to a world premiere since my hometown Newmarket Citizens’ Band unveiled The Newmarket Era and Express March one lovely Sunday ages ago in the park. So it was a big thrill to be at another premiere on Saturday in Vancouver, in this case, the first public performance of a […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, music, Vancouver

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