Casablanca Records diva Alma Faye Brooks pays tribute to Donna Summer at...
Disco diva Alma Faye Brooks She may have been born in Texas, but soul diva Alma Faye Brooks – who grew up in Little Burgundy and was a big-voiced kid in the Union United Church choir – is a Montrealer...
View ArticleRudy Giuliani and the Montreal mayor’s race
What can Montreal’s wannabe mayors learn from Rudy Giuliani? How to be bold? How to be brash? How to make a lot of money one day on the public speaking circuit? In September, 2001, when New York was...
View ArticlePop Montreal 2013: L’il Andy 3D at the Rialto Theatre, Sept. 27
Okay, let’s dispense with this part straightaway: the 3D didn’t work. Great idea, could’ve been fun, points for trying, but ultimately it fell squarely into the fail department. The idea was to have a...
View ArticleSummit School production oozes in symbolism
Ashley Séguin is alone under the spotlight on the Rialto Theatre stage. A pianist in the shadows starts playing the Jason Mraz hit I Won’t Give Up. And Séguin doesn’t. She does a heart-melting...
View ArticleRick Blue: Bowser and Blue celebrate first day of spring with a show
This Friday, March 20, is the first day of spring. And to celebrate, Bowser and Blue will be playing the Rialto on Park Avenue. It is a beautiful room. Inspired by the neo-Baroque style of the Paris...
View ArticleA dream brings Les Misérables cast home
Original cast members of Montreal’s production of Les Misérables are reuniting after 25 years for a one-night show to help one of their own. More than half the 35-member cast from a quarter-century ago...
View ArticleQ&A: Peaches on queer imagery and getting yanked from YouTube
Electro-pop musician Peaches says she doesn’t necessarily court controversy — yet she always manages to land in the middle of it. Nearly 30 years after she began challenging the prickly status quo...
View ArticleLeonard Cohen tribute to be 'a cross between mourning and celebration'
The night that news of Leonard Cohen’s death broke, Li’l Andy was scheduled to perform as part of the 20th-anniversary festivities for his favourite bar, Barfly, with his pal Joe Grass. When they heard...
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