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4 FEBRUARY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM FEBRUARY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 5 baby-boomer show Boom), Rick Miller recounts major moments Charmaine Nelson, Hanna Che and many others. There will in music, politics and culture of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. also be a Black Market featuring products by women-led companies. ≥ Segal Centre (5170 Côte-Ste-Catherine), various times, $67/$64 to-do list seniors/$40 under 30/$32 seniors ≥ 407 St-Pierre, 12 p.m., $14.88/$11.16 students :persona For the daily To-Do List, visit cultmontreal.com ™ Feb. 15 Feb. 24 mtl Legendary Canadian First Nations singer- Buffy L.A. art pop chanteuse Julia Holter released her fifth album : rant line Sainte-Marie will appear in conversation with her biographer Aviary in the fall, and she’s coming to town to play la Sala Andrea Warner. The event, happening at the Rialto, is the local Rossa with opener Jessica Moss (also a must-see). launch of Warner’s book Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized THIS WEEK: Pottery, cop body cams, Maxime Bernier, Kyle Chandler! Biography. ≥ 4848 St-Laurent, 8 p.m., $20 PLUS: No dreadlocks legislation could lead to improved music, ≥ 5711 Parc, 7 p.m., $5 or free with book purchase at Drawn & Quarterly woman theorizes!! (211 Bernard, $36.95) Feb. 28 Montreal alt/psych band Anemone launch their new album Beat My Distance at la Sala Rossa. From a little town called Compton, rapper/actor Vince Staples plays MTelus as part of his Smile You’re on Camera

≥ 4848 St-Laurent, 9 p.m., $13/$15 tour, featuring openers Buddy and Armani White. His latest radio-show-themed album FM! came out in November to rave reviews. “edited” by AL SOUTH M Well, my rant is about MARIJUANA An Anti-Valentine’s Day party is happening at Diving Bell LEGALIZATION. It’s turning out to be a real crock Social Club, with DJs playing ’80s darkwave and seven local of shit, eh? There’s going to be two types of ≥ 59 Ste-Catherine E., 8:30 p.m., $43.75 all-in F Hello Rant Line™. I just wanted to say that I acts performing live, namely Tranna Wintour, the Leanover, consider myself a fairly tolerant liberal type of marijuana citizens in the province of Quebec. The NOVEMBER, Kid Lucifer, Seaborne, Owen Hooper (Mouth person, left-wing-leaning, I support all the right first will be the poor who rent, and have fucking Critics are losing it over Assume Form, the latest LP by British Breather) and the Diving Bell House Band. things — I mean right as in decent, good, not asshole landlords who say, “Well, you can’t smoke singer, songwriter, musician and producer right-wing things — but even I was a bit SHOCKED marijuana in your apartment.” I already got THE (including our own Mira Silvers — see her review on p. 26). Get ≥ 3956 St-Laurent (3rd floor), 9 p.m., $12 to hear that some coop café at UQAM stopped a LETTER, it was dated Nov. 22, telling me I could in on the hype at his show at Olympia this month. comedian from performing at a show because he not possess marijuana, I could not grow it because Philly rock bro Kurt Vile and his band the Violators are playing had DREADLOCKS! First somebody told me about it’s illegal in my apartment — not that I’m going MTelus with Canadian alt-country kings the Sadies opening. ≥ 1004 Ste-Catherine E., 7:30 p.m., $59.75 all-in Christopher Lockhart it, and said that it was at the SNOWFLAKE CAFÉ, to — that I can’t smoke it on the balcony, I can’t go and I said, no, no, that has got to be satire, that into the back area, which by the way is just a paved parking lot, I can’t smoke it there, I can’t smoke it ≥ 59 Ste-Catherine E., 8 p.m., $38.75 all-in By Amy German itself is French comedy! But then I went and read up on it and yes it was true! They said he could not on any of the asphalt of their property, I have to join the show because he had dreadlocks! Because go on the sidewalk. Great! Now our fucking great Local /R&B duo Heartstreets host a release party for Feb. 28–March 3 Giving back to the community he it was… cultural appropriation! Oppression! Okay, Premier, Legault, wants to make a law saying you their new record Why Make Sense at NOMAD. The third annual Not Your Babe Fest is “a feminist festival came from, Tyndale St-Georges look, whoever decided this, your heart may be in can’t SMOKE OUTSIDE. So again the fucking poor, the right place, but your head needs to give itself a like myself, who don’t own a fucking house, or have ≥ promoting a safe space for women, non-binary/genderqueer 129 Van Horne, 5–7 p.m. and trans people in the counterculture scene. Local and Community Centre executive director shake! It is just hair. But then I also thought, oh boy, a landlord who is not neutral on marijuana, where touring bands will play Katacombes over the course of four Christopher Lockhart is in his if this catches on, then well maybe it will also get the fuck am I supposed to smoke? Maybe I should days, and the venue will also host a series of workshops and a rid of an awful lot of BAD BANDS. Especially some go smoke outside, get goddam arrested and go to flash tattoo day. element. of those bands from the ‘90s that are still kicking court and make a BIG MOCKERY of this whole thing. Feb. 20–March 2 around, if they still have hair. So I guess that would Anyway, that’s my rant, and it really sucks because be the silver lining. [BLEEP!] ≥ 1635 St-Laurent, festival pass $46.16/Thursday and Sunday shows obviously if you’re rich, you’re going to be able to Les Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma premieres new feature and Amy German: Why did you choose this field of work? smoke all the dope you want in your house and no short films made in this province and screens some of the $11.14/Friday and Saturday shows $21.14 F Hi. I just wanted to call to give my comments one’s going to bother you. I guess my other problem best from the past year at the Cinémathèque québécoise and Christopher Lockhart: I always liked working with on the best music of 2018 by Johnson Cummins. is that if I wasn’t a TOKER, I’d probably own my own Quartier Latin, with the opening film at Place des Arts. people and I liked giving back to the community. I think he needs to actually go to good shows and property, but because I’m a toker I’ve never had the I’ve always spent my free time doing this because it not the boring ass stuff he goes to. Best show: money to put aside for it. Oh and by the way, the pot March 2 made me feel good. Pottery. I just want to say, fuck those guys! Don’t store, that’s a fucking joke in itself. I went there and support that bullshit, seriously. What the hell, whatever I bought was all overpriced garbage. Like,

Spencer Edwards Feb. 21–March 3 Among the many Nuit Blanche events happening tonight, the I was born in Little Burgundy so my roots go back to Johnson Cummins? [BLEEP!] [Ed.’s note: Johnson you know, I get seven grams for $40 from my own Kallitechnis Phi Centre (in conjunction with us) present 2040: Year/After, “a that. I go to church at Union United and I have always Cummins’ top show of 2018 was Low. Brandon guy and the stuff that you get at the SDQ? It is all Kaufman chose Pottery. Enjoy the Pottery article in The 20th edition of Montreal en Lumiere multi-sensorial experience” featuring music, food and art for had family and friends in this neighbourhood. crap. [BLEEP!] this issue!] offers the usual hivernal hibernation bail-out, connecting the connoisseurs and party people alike. dots between the culinary arts, outdoor winter fun and, with AG: So going for this job seemed organic to you? F Yeah so I was bored and I was watching Bloodline Feb. 8 Nuit Blanche on March 2, most of the visual and performing art ≥ 407 St-Pierre, 9 p.m., free, 18+ M Hello. So I see the Montreal cops have given on and I noticed that KYLE CHANDLER is disciplines, craft practices and nightlife activities you can think CL: Yes, definitely. I’ve been here for six years but THUMBS DOWN to them wearing BODY CAMS. like REALLY, REALLY HOT and SWEATY in the movie Local R&B/soul artist Kallitechnis plays a headlining show at of. (Look for our annual Nuit Blanche guide at cultmtl.com later Also as part of Nuit Blanche, CCA hosts a day/night event I started out in a coordinator position. I remember How come I am not surprised? I will tell you why: and you can tell that the producers are trying to le Ministère with opener IAMNOTMYHISTORY. this month.) (copresented by n10.as online radio station) called taking the metro here and as I was walking through I have seen our cops in action at protests HIDING make it in a way that’s not sexy, like he’s sweating Questioning the Future: Come and Forget and Draw and Dance, the neighbourhood, it just felt right. I’ve felt THEIR BADGES. I have asked cops to show me their through those collared shirts but like it doesn’t ≥ 4521 St-Laurent, 8 p.m., $13.50/$15, all ages featuring a live set by CFCF and DJ sets by Ambien Baby and confident in other job interviews but I never felt that badge and they refuse. No doubt they don’t want work because, like, he’s FUCKING HOT anyways! Ouri. confident before. This neighbourhood just means so body cams — they don’t want anyone to see them Like I dunno, it’s really weird that they would put, much to me. The history of the black community is when they get going like the ROGUE FORCE they like, that much effort into it. [BLEEP!] Feb. 22 really are. Their excuse is that the cameras make ≥ my own family history so this all resonates with me. 1920 Baile, 3 p.m.–1 a.m., free Burgundy is just a place that makes me happy. citizens uncomfortable. I’ll tell you what makes me Feb. 13–Jan. 5, 2020 Montreal electro-pop artist Radiant Baby launches a new CHILD Oh my God. So my friends are super uncomfortable: you shoving me up against the cop sensitive and getting mad at me because I am record called Restless at Bar le Ritz, with openers AWWFUL A Bowie Celebration: The Alumni Tour brings AG: What is your favourite part of this job? car, you hitting me with your baton, you denying me making JOKES and they are not even OFFENSIVE. Pointe-à-Callière’s Into the Wonder Room is a collection and Mutually Feeling. (See our review of the record on p. 26.) together some of the music legend’s closest associates my rights. The other excuse they’re using — some They know I’m joking and yet they still bite my head of over 1,000 “unusual, curious and above all magnificent” (including Mike Garson, Earl Slick and Charlie Sexton) for a of them tried the cams for a year — is that the objects from around the globe. CL: It’s all about the people. I love interacting with off! Out of nowhere I make the simplest joke and ≥ 179 Jean-Talon W., 9:30 p.m., $10/$13 greatest hits show in his memory. cameras were too complicated to work properly. seniors, adults, kids, it doesn’t matter who it is. I like they just bit my head off and I even talked to them seeing the people who are benefitting from what I’m Well, sure, maybe if you’re an idiot! Why don’t you and they know to tell me if they get offended by ≥ 350 Place Royale, 10 a.m.– 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 11 a.m.–5 indie rockers Deerhunter are playing le National with ≥ MTelus (59 Ste-Catherine E.), 8 p.m., $59–$198 doing. That’s what makes me enjoy the work I do. go on the Internet, go see all the body cam videos, this stuff, but they just chew me out! They didn’t p.m. Saturday/Sunday, $22/$20 seniors/$15 13–30/$8 kids 5–12 opener Mary Lattimore. go see all the people being arrested all over the even tell me they were offended by it, and it just U.S., captured live on body cams. You would think As the executive director, I look over everything but pisses me off! [BLEEP!] that if the redneck cops in the South can make the ≥ 1220 Ste-Catherine E., 9 p.m., $30/$35 I also get to see everyone. I get to go talk to the kids, body cams work, you guys can figure them out. And go to the adult centre and I see the people in the March 2–April 21 I think it’s pretty obvious that if a cop is arresting job training programs and talk to them. I get to talk Feb. 14 someone and the whole thing is being filmed, the to my staff and I also get to go out and talk to other BBQ restaurant Diablo hosts a sugar shack every Saturday and rule of law is more likely to be followed? It just The Concordia Co-op Bookstore’s recurring Alternative Media community leaders in Greater Montreal. GOT AN OPINION ON THE LOCAL SCENE? Feb. 23 Sunday, with three seatings per day. Call to reserve. makes common sense. [BLEEP!] Fairs (which have been happening monthly throughout the WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! CALL school year) provide a space for publishers, writers, zinesters, Jamaican author Marlon James will appear at the Rialto in Working with the kids is really great — they’re one ≥ 3619 St-Laurent, 514-564-8666 F Hello, just calling to say that I could really do artists and activists to do their thing and sell their stuff. conversation with Dimitri Nasrallah as part of the book tour of the main purposes for the centre. For me, nothing without seeing MAXIME BERNIER’S hideous face for Black Leopard, Red Wolf. beats that moment when a kid comes into my office 514-271-RANT (7268) plastered all over the Plateau. I thought we got ≥ and says, “What do you do?” 1515 Ste-Catherine W. (EV atrium), 10 a.m.–6 p.m. rid of him for awhile, that he would crawl back ≥ 5711 Parc, 7 p.m., $10 or free with book purchase at Drawn & Quarterly March 5 under his ROCK, but nope, I got to look at him every Follow the RANT LINE™ at (211 Bernard, $36.95) I usually just tell them that I type emails and talk day all over again. There should be some kind of www.rantline.com Rapper/celebrity brings his Astroworld/Wish You to people. This is something that I always love, to MORATORIUM on this type of thing. [BLEEP!] Feb. 14–March 10 Phi Centre hosts Black Conversations, a day of lectures Were Here tour to the Bell Centre, with opener Sheck Wes. be able to talk to these kids and have an impact on featuring special guest Trey Anthony (a playwright, actress them. This is the biggest motivating factor for me. In his one-man-show Boom X (the Generation X sequel to his and producer) as well as Nantalie Indongo, Robyn Maynard, ≥ 1909 Avenue des Canadiens de Montréal, 8 p.m., $58.95–$230.70

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By the Depset go way beyond the typical McCain’s pizzas, Mr. Freeze In honour of the February food issue, confections and Hungry Man dinners of late-night this month we look at a store that dépanneur desperation. There’s a basket with straddles the line between two Première Moisson baguettes Montreal archetypes: the dépanneur by the cash, delivered fresh daily, and a large assortment and the fruiterie. Fruiteries are, of of cut flowers and house course, Montreal’s version of the plants by the front window. This last feature spills onto greengrocer: small retail food markets the sidewalk in the summer. that sell mainly fruits and vegetables, We spoke to manager Weng bigger than a convenience store Yi about why they have opted but smaller than a supermarket. for this hybrid format: Dépanneurs are — well, if you’re «Having a lot of stuff is reading this column, you already know. better for the neighbours. It’s more than a dépanneur. We Of course, you could say it’s just not a dépanneur — it’s know that people need it. Many customers come every day for a fruiterie. The reason it’s both is that it sells items that the organic products or the flowers. I think the boss wanted fruiteries often don’t (cigarettes, beer), and also physically resembles a dep. Fruiterie YM looks like a dep. It’s a small piece of real to open a supermarket rather than a dépanneur. Some of our estate that sits on a corner (Bernard and Esplanade) customers buy everything here!» and sells cigarettes, beer, wine and lottery tickets. Perhaps it’s the neighbourhood that makes it necessary It diverges from the dépanneur category by offering The owner and staff, all immigrants from China, can be seen to have a more full-service convenience store. Near the substantially more food options. These include a daily pruning and arranging flowers in the window. northern edge of Mile End, with its back to the rail line, full, aisle-length open fridge with leeks, jalapenos, residents living off of Bernard have to walk several long avocados and other veggies that go beyond the basics. Deps, of course, vary in their level of variety. Some do offer blocks down Parc to get to the nearest supermarket. The middle aisle contains canned and dried goods, prepared food options like samosas or sandwiches, and there Having access to fresh food within a short walking many of which are organic, locally produced and vegan. are often apples, onions or other emergency pantry items distance is a real plus, especially if you don’t have a car or The back fridge, like most dépanneurs, has a selection available (freshness varying), but few deps can claim to meet want to grab breakfast fixings in your pyjamas. of beers and soft drinks, but space is made for a row all of your daily kitchen needs to the degree that Fruiterie YM of freezers with (mostly organic) prepared foods that does. ≥ 186 Bernard W.

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ENGLISH & FRENCH Henri burger at Henri Brasserie Française

By Food Team Beginner IELTS & TEFAQ fun snacks and appetizers like farrotto and homemade last month, playing hostess and server, always with a smile, Lorraine Carpenter, Rob Jennings, Erik Leijon and Clayton Intermediate preparation Sandhu pretzel with “baseball mustard” (ie. the basic bright yellow lending a personal feel to proceedings that made the whole Advanced course kind). As a bonus, the cocktails (we’ve tried most of them) are experience a little warmer. (LC) absolutely killer, from the Oaxaca Penicillin (tequila, egg white, Mon & Wed 6–8pm Tue & Thu 6–8pm In a city as famous for its food as it is for its honey, lemon topped with mezcal and candied ginger) to the ≥ 174-176 St-Viateur W. nightlife, festivals and relatively cheap rent restaurant’s eponymous drink made with apple brandy, sherry, restaurantileflottante.com 2019 EVENING SESSIONS 2019 TEFAQ/IELTS SESSIONS and real estate, it’s possible to dine fine at lime, egg white and carrot juice with hazelnut butter, and a lovely butterfly design on top. (LC) Jan 14 – Feb 20 Jan 15 – Feb 21 any price. Here’s our third annual guide to Henri Brasserie Française Mar 4 – Apr 10 Mar 5 – Apr 11 some of the mainstays and the hot young ≥ 406 St-Jacques W. Apr 23 – May 29 things in Montreal’s restaurant scene: Restaurantmonarque.ca The “brasserie française” that opened up in the new Hotel Apr 22 – May 29 Birks in November took over nearly half of the venerable Jun 3 – Jul 10 Jun 3 – Jul 11 jewellery store on the ground floor to spectacular effect. Bar Jul 17 – Sep 4 (WED ONLY) Jul 18 – Sep 5 (TUE ONLY) Monarque Île Flottante seating, tables and banquettes are arranged beautifully amid Sep 16 – Oct 23 Sep 17 – Oct 24 restored 19th century mouldings, marble, glass and gold, and Formerly les Deux Singes de Montarvie, Île Flottante has French chef Romain Abrivard has put together an equally Oct 28 – Dec 4 Oct 29 – Dec 5 Leméac’s Richard Bastien and his son Jérémie (the head chef) opened this long-gestating Old Montreal project in the carried over the tasting menu format, detailed presentation beautiful menu combining French classics with contemporary fall, offering an elegant two-tiered experience for diners and deluxe flavours of its previous incarnation in a space foodie fare. Seafood is prominent across Henri’s menu, but (and drinkers): the narrow, block-long space is divided in that’s twice the size and far more sleek, with pale wood floors, so is beef — à la rib steak, bavette, tournedo and one of the two, with a bar and adjacent banquette and tables at the glassed-in kitchen and bar and black tables, chairs and walls. best burgers in town. A short and sweet cocktail list includes CONTACT US FOR MORE INFO: front and a white-tablecloth dining room at the back, with Three ($45), five ($65) or seven ($85) courses are served, classics like the tropical, tiki-esque Jungle Bird and signature T: 514.876.4572 E: [email protected] separate menus. The latter is a little out of our budget, but the each dish a work of art both visually and in flavour — dotting concoctions such as the Mogetau, a delicious blend of gin, plates with fresh herbs, flowers and sauces is a signature berries, basil, bubbly and black pepper. (LC) ILSC Continuing Education “brasserie” section offers more than your average bar menu, with a full range of mains such as rib eye, strip loin or butcher’s touch established by chef Sean Murray Smith. Front-of-house 410 Rue Saint Nicolas, Suite 300, Montreal, Quebec H2Y 2P5 cut steaks (made from dry aged PEI beef), a fish and seafood staple Nada Abou Younes (who co-owns the place with Smith) ≥ 1240 Phillips Square METRO: PLACE-D’ARMES AND SQUARE-VICTORIA-OACI CONTINUING-EDUCATION.ILSC.COM/MONTREAL bouillabaisse and a “naturally raised” pork chop, along with was doing triple duty when we dropped in on a frigid night restauranthenri.com

10 FEBRUARY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM FEBRUARY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 11 side of the place and couples and singles packing the marble bar on the other. The Diavolo (pepperoni) and M. Fun-Guy (mushroom) pizzas were fit for devouring — the toppings were delicious and well-balanced, and the tomato sauce, mozzas di bufala and affumato (respectively) and thin, strong crust provided the perfect support. Given that the place is named after natural wine pioneer Elena Pantaleoni, there are some fun options to pair with your pizza (or pasta), including orange wine. (LC)

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McKiernan

Tucked away in an office building and looking like the rec room of some start-up, McKiernan offers an accessible point of entry into the famed Joe Beef/Maison Publique culinary world without the same time or money investment. Sure, downing a jambon beurre wrapped in paper on a picnic table isn’t the same as indulging in the whole nine yards Buffet Maharani at Liverpool House, but there’s still a level of quality and preparation going on in McKiernan’s rotating feel-good menu that reminds you this isn’t some mere grab-and-go Timmy’s run. Although initially just a lunch spot, they’ve now expanded to walk-in only dinner on Thursday and Friday, with their fave natural wines, ciders and beers. Welcome to the family. (EL) Spaghetti olio-aglio-granchio at Mon Lapin ≥ 5524 St-Patrick #200 mckiernanmtl.com

Larrys

The one-stop-shop. It’s 8 a.m. and you want coffee and donuts? Larrys is open. Meeting a date for a glass of wine? Larrys has one of the best lists in the city. It’s midnight and you get a craving for scrambled eggs? Larrys has your back. Open from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m., non-stop — seven days a week. Expect the kind of simple, high-quality ingredients you get Turmeric monkfish at Denise EXHIBITION Tomato + ? at Montréal Plaza Mussels at Cordova

Mon Lapin razor clams with coriander, peanuts and yuzu sauce ($20) Hélicoptère and tomato burgers (where a sliced tomato is the bun) with The Joe Beef empire’s brand of casual dining and culinary various fillings ($20) — on my last visit, it was tuna and fresh Opened in June 2018, Hélicoptère (and its sister café Hélico) finesse stepped into Little Italy last spring with this cozy wine herbs, easily the most refined tuna salad sandwich I’ve ever might be one of the best arguments for taking the metro out bar, headed by chef Marc-Olivier Frappier, former Candide tasted. east to Hochelaga. David Ollu, Natacha Lehmann, and Youri chef Jessica Noël and sommelier Vanya Filipovic. Just over a Boussièrs Fournel, all formerly of Bouillon Bilk, came together dozen small plates are available daily — “farm fresh” dishes ≥ 6230 St-Hubert (LC) to open one of the most talked about restaurants of the year. ranging from carbonara with smoked eel and veal tongue with montrealplaza.com The 18+ item menu is designed for you to compose your meal trout caviar to grilled cauliflower with calamari and beet (yes, as you like it, with a focus on vegetable-forward cooking. More beet) tartare — along with an impressive list of natural wines casual than the ultra-finessed Bouillon Bilk, you can expect that’ll set you back anywhere from $46 to $188. Mon Lapin Caffè Un Po’ Di Più the same expert sensibilities in Hélicoptère’s food, just less does not take reservations, but arriving at 5 p.m. on a weekday gussied-up. (CS) is a fairly safe bet. (LC) Un Po’ Di Più is another new arrival to the scene offering a day- AT POINTE-À-CALLIÈRE to-night restaurant experience, but it’s no doubt one of the ≥ 4255 Ontario E. From February 13, 2019 ≥ 150 St-Zotique best. Cheffed by Nick Giambattisto (formerly of Joe Beef) with helicopteremtl.com vinmonlapin.com support from Jess Malette (formerly of Lawrence and Larrys), the menu is distinctly Italian but with the smart, ingredient- forward cooking that these two chefs do best. Come for a Elena Montreal Plaza cappuccino and olive oil cake for breakfast, or a spritz (they offer five variations) and a plate of prosciutto after work. For In deepest St-Henri, Nora Gray’s Emma Cardarelli and Ex-Toqué! chefs Charles-Antoine Crête and Cheryl Johnson dinner take advantage of the exclusively Italian wine list, and Ryan Gray (along with Loïc co-founder Marley Sniatowsky)

have been holding down their Plaza St-Hubert digs since pick a bottle to go alongside your gnocchi and buratta. Still established a pizzeria that’s been serving some of the best Illustrations: Josée Bisaillon 2015, and the place hasn’t come close to losing its lustre. hungry? No sweat. The menu is all small plates so don’t be pizza in the city for the past year. Elena was jumping when Montréal Archaeology An exhibitionAn exhibition by Pointe-à-Callière, by Pointe-à-Callière, based on an based original on anconcept original by the concept Musée by des the Confluences Musée des in Confluences Lyon (France). in Lyon (France). Montreal Plaza is an easy go-to for festive occasions or dates, afraid to order a little bit more — it’s written right there in the we visited one Saturday night in November, with small groups Montréal Archaeology andand History History Complex Complex serving fun and adventurous sharing plates like Chinatown name. (CS) occupying the long, velvety banquette and tables on one pacmusee.qc.ca/enpacmusee.qc.ca/en 12 FEBRUARY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM FEBRUARY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 13 from its big sister Lawrence but in a small-plates format. The mackerel spaghetti is a crowd favourite, but you can’t go wrong with some crispy beef-fat fried potatoes and a classic beef tartare. Come early, come late, come often, and bring some friends to split a bottle of something funky. (CS)

≥ 9 Fairmount E. lawrencemtl.com/larrys/

Nouveau Palais (Papineau)

Many of you will be familiar with Mile End casse-croûte turned hipster diner Nouveau Palais, but you may have missed the opening, last fall, of their second location on Papineau. What makes this so great is not just the perfect late-night burgers, fried chicken and waffles and surprisingly good wine list, but that it brings much needed variety to a somewhat homogenous corner of the Plateau. In the past few months, (Nouveau) Nouveau Palais has also organized pop-up events: two with chef Erin Mahoney of la Bête à Pain (who served Georgian dumplings) and one featuring locally raised organ meats. They seem thoroughly invested in these new digs. Let’s hope the formula works as well here as in Mile End! (RJ)

≥ 4764 Papineau 514-379-6026

Marusan Comptoir Japonais

The explosion of Japanese cuisine in this city has come with its fair share of innovators and imitators, and Marusan in Old Montreal fits in the former. Neither a bustling izakaya nor a cramped ramen cubby-hole, it’s really more of a casual lunch and dinner spot with small plates galore, as well as warm and filling don and udon bowls. In one sitting, udon noodles, damn fine karaage, yakiniku marinated beef and fresh sashimi FREAKIN' grace the table, all umami’d to the max, so the menu can really run the gamut of Japanese favourites. Even better, the sake on draft – yes, on draft – was as drinkable as water and not crushing on the wallet, either. (EL)

≥ 401 Notre-Dame W. marusan.ca COOL Denise

On a quiet corner in Parc Ex, this nuvo-Vietnamese restaurant founded by three filmmakers started out as a café in late 2017, open for breakfast, lunch and (later on) dinner. Now it’s dinner-only, Wednesdays through Fridays, so while you won’t Ian Moussesu Un Po’ Di Più be able to get your daytime bahn mi fix, Denise’s nighttime From Amour is Love by Joanna Chevalier and Harold Junior Julmice bites are well worth the trip: miso- and sake-braised eggplant is as decadent as a technically vegan dish can get, while the turmeric monkfish, Dong go (braised) pork and Sweet mama ALLURE EYE ON JULIET SUMMER OF '84 VENUS squash poached in tom yum and coconut will all amaze your by Carlos & Jason Sanchez by Kim Nguyen by François Simard, Anouk, Whissell by Eisha Marjara tastebuds. Sealing the deal on Denise is a small but well- Full program February 26, 8:45 pm March 2, 8:45 pm and Yoann-Karl Whissell February 25, 6:15 pm and tickets chosen list of wines and excellent service. (LC) Cineplex Odeon Cineplex Odeon March 2, 9:30 pm Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin Quartier Latin Cinémathèque québécoise Quartier Latin QUEBECCINEMA.CA ≥ 386 Beaumont cafedenise.ca by d

Cordova Presente

The welcoming interior, unique cocktails and social club feel makes it easy to melt away the hours at this warm St- Henri neighbourhood haunt. Walk in and immediately turn left, where you’ll come face to face with a wall of conservas straight from the Iberian Peninsula. If squid in ink from a tin 300 FILMS | 80 PREMIERES | 30 EVENTS | FEBRUARY 20 2 with a short espresso doesn’t float your boat, there’s a weekly menu of small and slightly bigger tapas to munch on, many with a strong seafood and charcuterie bend. Although perhaps more of a bar and café with grub/hangout sort of place than a full-on restaurant, the food and drink make it easy to make an evening of it nonetheless. (EL)

≥ 4606 Notre-Dame W. cordovasthenri.com Carrot soup at Henri Brasserie Française

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The sheer hype surrounding Yoni Amir’s authentic Tel Aviv falafels among its devotees will have you questioning whether any falafel at all is worth the fuss. Leave it to your tastebuds to make that determination, but at the very least, the outwardly crispy, internally moist balls are a cut above your usual fast food falafel spot, so if you’re going to obsess over a pita sandwich, make it this one. Counter space for eating is ample enough if you’re not taking it to go, and the menu cuts to the chase: falafel in pita or salad form, Israeli fave sabich (fried eggplant and hard boiled eggs) and a hummus plate. (EL)

≥ St-Viateur W. falafelyoni.com

Pizza Bouquet

Like many bars and venues around town, Notre Dame des Quilles had been hosting food pop-ups. They had perogies, Sudanese food and other one-off and recurring events until Pizza Bouquet showed up. They are now a permanent fixture beside the infamous bowling lanes, serving the closest thing to New York-style ‘za in town from 5 p.m. to midnight Tuesday to Friday. Their regular margharita and pepperoncini variants are available by the slice and the pie can compete with any pizza neighbouring Little Italy has to offer. There are occasional specials with options like potato-rosemary and white pizzas. At $3.25 a slice and around $20 for a whole pizza, they’re delivering top quality for no more than run-of- the-mill drunk food take-out places cost, and it’s certainly cheaper than sit down, fork-and-knife pizzerias. (RJ)

≥ 32 Beaubien E. facebook.com/pizzabouquet/ Diavolo pizza at Elena

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16 FEBRUARY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM FEBRUARY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 17 Alep Buffet Maharani

It’s been on your list for ages. Stop waiting and go. This Syrian- The newest kid on the strip of busy Indian restaurants has Armenian restaurant is on par with any of the city’s best (I’m devised a great formula that sets it apart from (and above) looking at you, Damas), serving up classics like the fattouche other buffets and often mediocre thali offerings: Each day, six salad, labneh, muhammara and braised lamb with yogurt different dishes are available in all-you-can-eat quantities, and almonds. In their own words “Alep is the perfect place to but one dish at a time, brought by request hot from the discover, or simply rediscover the perfumes of olive oil, mint, kitchen rather than a self-serve buffet table. Daal, samosas, fennel and pomegranate,” sounds good as hell to me. While salad, butter chicken and tandori chicken as well as rice and you’re there, take the time to explore the mostly biodynamic naan are available daily to mix and match with your other and natural wine list that includes over 300 references, and vegetarian or non-veg selections. The best news is that the with many bottles coming in at under $50 and a few under quality is outstanding — not one bad bite in multiple visits, $40, this might be one of the best and most affordable wine from rich paneers to three-alarm vindaloo and madras to fish lists in town. (CS) curry, one of Maharani’s standout dishes. (LC)

≥ 199 Jean-Talon E. ≥ 808 Jean-Talon W. POP Montreal presents restaurantalep.com/EN/ Buffetmaharani.com + guest POP Montreal & Blue Skies Turn Black present

Monarque and Oaxaca Penicilin cocktails at Monarque Serrano Bar-B-Q 47soul Ramen 9000 + Yves Jarvis Portuguese chicken is, by now, as Montreal as smoked March 10 2019 Homeshake What’s the opposite of a scoop of ice cream? A bowl of soup. meat and bagels, but you may have overlooked a Mile End This pint-sized ramen counter is Nora Gray alumni Mike Dalla March 21 2019 classic: Serrano BBQ, which serves a Peruvian variant of the LE MINISTÈRE ALBUM Libera and Nick Rosati’s reason to keep of their rotisserie chicken. This tiny counter-style place has a simple Doors 7pm / Show 8pm LAUNCH widely loved ice cream shop open all winter long. A secret mix MTELUS chalkboard menu with whole, half and quarter chickens, as Doors 6:30pm / Show 8pm of wild mushrooms and a blend of red and white misos serve well as delicious sandwiches with slaw, lettuce and tomatoes as the base of this flavourful yet light broth. The broth itself on them. Other options are sausage and pork sandwiches and is vegan — but if you’re not, add an egg or some pork. Either homemade pasta salad or roasted potatoes on the side. The way, you’re in for a damn good bowl of soup. (CS) chicken is less spicy and crispy than those common in Little Portugal, but more tender and steamy. You can easily eat here ≥ 4609 Notre-Dame W. for less than $10 and the service is very fast for a quick lunch ramen9000.com or a late-night takeout dinner. (RJ) POP Montreal presents + guest

≥ 161 St-Viateur W. facebook.com/R%C3%B4tisserie-Serrano-BBQ-225330711283/ Aldous Harding April 12 2019 LA SALA ROSSA POP Montreal & Blue Skies Turn Black present Doors 8pm / Show 9pm

Molly Nilsson + Bambi Lou March 16 2019 THÉÂTRE FAIRMOUNT Doors 8pm / Show 9pm POP Montreal & Suoni Per Il Popolo present Sean Murray Spencer Krug + guest (mem. , FKA Moonface)

June 20 2019 LA SALA ROSSA Doors 8:30pm / Show 9pm Tickets available at POPMONTREAL.COM

Nous reconnaissons l’appui nancier de FACTOR, du gouvernement du Canada, et des radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays. We acknowledge the nancial support of FACTOR, the government of Canada, and Canada’s private radio broadcasters. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. Jerusalem artichoke gnocci at Île Flottante

18 FEBRUARY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM FEBRUARY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 19 food & drink Café by design The cookbook as survival guide

by Clayton Sandhu

In 2005, Joe Beef opened and Montreal was never the same.

Dave McMillan and Fred Morin are arguably two of the most influential restaurateurs in Montreal, if not in Canada. Six years after their restaurant opened, longtime friend and employee Meredith Erickson would sit down with the two bon- vivants to pen The Art of Living According to Joe Beef. Much like the people, place and ideology it represented, the book was irreverent, it was grandiose and it was a giant success, sharing the essence and importance of Joe Beef with the world and contributing significantly to Montreal’s reputation as a dominant North American food capital.

This was also the beginning of Erickson’s career as a cookbook author. Since that first Joe Beef book was published in 2011, Erickson has penned roughly a book a year, a tremendous accomplishment. She has written about Portland’s le Pigeon, Claridge’s Hotel in and is beginning a book about Frasca, the restaurant of master sommelier Bobby Stuckey dedicated to the wines and cuisine of the Friuli region of Italy.

Erickson has become one of the most important cookbook authors writing today. Her ability to transcend the medium has reimagined the purpose of the cookbook, allowing readers to not only cook recipes at a professional level, but to further understand the people and ideologies behind their favourite restaurants. Her method blends instruction with Sandhu Clayton anecdotal prose and history, and in doing so makes a book Pastel rita as pleasurable to read as it is to cook from. In late Nov. 2018, Joe Beef’s second book was published, Joe Beef: Surviving By Clayton Sandhu That high-minded yet playful design really resonates with or remarkable to speak of, the presentation was nice and the Apocalypse: Another Cookbook of me as the day-to-night, café-cum-wine bar is as Milanese thoughtful without veering into over-complication, but that’s ME: It’s been pretty awesome and obviously just more direct, Sorts, allowing us an opportunity to ME: Cookbooks in 2018 had their biggest and there is no bridge to cross with someone else. At the same as it is Montréalaise. Pastel Rita could easily be your first what you want from an avocado toast — good fruit, good speak with Meredith (who is presently year sales-wise, as did books on the Perhaps it’s the warm coffee at my lips, time, it hasn’t felt much different than the other books. Writing stop for an espresso in the morning, where you come for a seasoning and just enough garnish to make it pop. in the Italian Alps) about her craft, the whole by the way, in many years. I think or the cheeriness of the colour-blasted we’re seeing a slight backlash in online non-fiction is a lot about asking questions: What am I trying drink and a snack after work, and for your nightcap before future of cookbooks and what makes a to convey here? How do I present this story? What are the good meal. content. People are beginning to realize interior; most likely it’s owner Gabriel heading home. The café is ambitiously attempting to branch into the wine that being connected to your device 24/7 important bits? Is this intel relevant? It is much more solitary, though, which can get intense. Malenfant’s warm and welcoming attitude bar scene with a short but effective wine list and is currently Clayton Sandhu: You’ve been working feels like shit. With books, you can take Design aside, I should say that, to me, this isn’t a restaurant, developing a small evening menu that aims to go alongside them off the shelf, open them, enjoy like a mad-woman these last few With Alps, I was alone a lot of the time not only at my laptop that’s dampening any sense of winter or at least not yet. Usually, I have criticisms of places your glass of Friulian orange wine. For now, there is a years. Are you okay? them and then close them. typing but also in mountain refugio’s at 3,000-metre elevation cynicism I might otherwise be feeling on that try and do it all, but at Pastel Rita, they’re taking a bagna cauda-esque plate of crudité with aioli, a selection and then there was the whole driving across the four countries CS: In an interview you conducted thoughtful approach. They keep the menu simple (it’s not of cured meats from Aliments Viens and a Matane shrimp Meredith Erickson: Ha, you sound like aspect…I will say with alpine cooking the breadth of the a gloomy Tuesday morning. Part design Dave from Joe Beef, who wants me to with Peter Meehan (author of the subject has been monumental. When I initially began the a gastronome’s paradise by any means) but effective, and salad. A good start, but with Larrys just down the street take some time off in 2019. The thing Momofuku cookbook and editor of project, I was like, “How come there isn’t a comprehensive studio, part café, part natural wine bar, they focus on sourcing good products. The Viennoiseries and Boxermans just on the other side of Parc, there’s simply Lucky Peach magazine), he spoke about is, I also say no to a lot of projects. alpine cookbook out there?” I quickly realized why. It’s a huge come from Guillaume, charcuteries and cold cuts from not enough to be a contender. However, Malefant recently Like, a lot. But within the last three the importance of actually cooking the undertaking. I was travelling four to five months a year for five Pastel Rita is a beautiful concoction that years there were consecutive projects recipes you write in order to convey the years. It’s audacious. And quite expensive. reminds me of that good old DIY Montreal Aliments Viens and salads from Montreal Plaza-affiliated teamed up with Charles Antoine Crète of Montreal Plaza that I couldn’t say no to and they all method properly and effectively. How Foodchain. Carrying work by local artisans is fitting for a and, in keeping with the Italian theme, they are offering a happened simultaneously. Claridge’s important do you think it is that people CS: During your time in the Alps so far, what has been your business. space which was formerly a gallery. Although we all love special aperitivo menu on Thursday and Friday nights. In be able to cook from the recipes you and Joe Beef are both big coups and most interesting revelation in regards to Alpine cooking? a café or restaurant that makes everything 100% from the traditional Milanese style, snacks come free with the equally very much my style. And the write? It goes without saying that the design of this café with scratch, I personally have no problem with businesses that purchase of a libation. Now we’re talking. Alps, that’s been my passion project May Jennifer ME: That isolation brings creativity and clarity. restaurant ambitions is the star attraction — and with good for seven years now. Meredith Erickson ME: So important! When people spend opt to outsource. Just because you made it in house doesn’t reason. The interior features an audacious and vivid colour $40 or whatever on a book of mine, I CS: Besides the wonderful books you’ve written, what is a necessarily make it good, or better than what’s available, and As a restaurant, I think Pastel Rita is still finding its groove, CS: I sometimes have a hard time defining you as a writer. take that seriously. To buy the book and then spend the time cookbook you think everyone should own? scheme featuring an emerald green central bar (which I give full credit to Malenfant for recognizing that there are but it’s heading in the right direction. I for one prefer that and money with ingredients and cooking only to have a recipe You’ve done all sorts of food-centric writing for big publications is also the kitchen), a wall in the hue of a summer-peach great artisans down the street making wonderful products; restaurants take it slow and try to perfect the things they offer like , Saveur, Lucky Peach, among others, NOT work…that sucks! On all my projects I work with a tester ME: I like Honey From a Weed by Patience Gray. It’s about a and a bubblegum pink bench that provides both seating rather than trying to best them, he embraced them and well before venturing further into new domains. And when and of course you write cookbooks, but the way you write and extraordinaire, her name is Kendra McKnight, and she’s in trait I think everyone needs a bit more of: resourcefulness. and a showcase for co-owner Veronique Orban’s handbag compose cookbooks sort of defies the regular conventions of the kitchen every day working out the kinks of the recipes I made their products part of his vision. Local business that they to do expand, they should proceed with cautious and publish. For Claridge’s, for Joe Beef, for Alps, Frasca and for company Bouquet, as well as Montreal knife-maker Smith genre, especially when it comes to your latest release (Joe Beef: CS: You’ve written books for chefs whose styles vary wildly, supports local business — hard not to like that. purposeful vision. Here’s hoping that this team doubles down another upcoming book about Mandy’s. I think we test over Surviving the Apocalypse). How do you define what it is you do? but one common trait I’ve noticed is that there is an elegance and Spathis’s Japanese-style knives. Opposite the kitchen on the aperitivo angle for nights as the Milanese counterpart 300 recipes a year. and sincerity behind all the styles. Each chef is driven not by is Orban’s studio, with inlaid arched mantles that act as a As for my experience, I had a cortado made from beans to neighbouring Cicchetti’s Venetian approach. Really making CS: To my knowledge, there isn’t any other cookbook like this always making a statement, or being “Instagrammable,” but home for a smattering of ceramics from Pascale Girardin. roasted by Toronto’s Pilot Coffee Roasters, along with an a go of the 5 à 7 is something that we’re not doing enough of one. It’s a restaurant book, but it’s really a practical philosophy CS: I want to ask you about your current project, alpine instead by a desire to cook good meals. Since you’re what I Perhaps the cherry on top is an incredibly Instagrammable guide; a tongue-in-cheek approach to roughing it like a French cooking. You’ve been praised for your ability to adapt your would call an expert on the subject, what makes a good meal avocado toast that appears on both the brunch and all-day in town; we don’t really need another small-plates joint, but king. How did you approach writing a book like this?CS: This voice for the book you’re writing — Claridge’s sounds way pink monochrome wall and banquette. The whole vibe menu. The toast was exactly as expected: creamy, well- I for one wouldn’t mind a great spot for aperitivo. As for the is probably a tough question to answer, but given that there is different from The Art of Living According to Joe Beef, for ME: Enjoying the people you’re with. You could be at Paul reminds me of Milan’s Bar Luce (the Wes Anderson-designed seasoned avocado generously slathered on warm and crisp day program, feel no trepidation to stop by for a good cup example. How have you found the experience of writing a so much food content available online, for free, are cookbooks Bocuse, but if you’re not in good company nor having great bar at the Prada Institute) and Malenfant is the first to admit toast and garnished with salty and fragrant feta, tomatoes, of coffee and a simple, well-executed plate. You will not be going to remain relevant? cookbook on a rarely covered subject in your own voice? conversation, what’s the point? that the filmmaker’s style was an inspiration for the design. radish and radish shoots. Though it was nothing really new disappointed.

20 FEBRUARY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM FEBRUARY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 21 music Post-punk revisited

By Brandon Kaufman

Pottery’s status as one of the most exciting bands in Montreal had been building for months before they released any music.

Prior to the emergence of their debut single “Hank Williams” THE DEVIL MAKES THREE KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS ARKELLS grandson in December, seemed almost spectral, with whispers + THE SADIES + + THE BLUE STONES + JUST JOHN & DOM DIAS FEBRUARY 8 - CORONA THEATRE of their existence confirmed only by the odd ephemeral FEBRUARY 15 - MTELUS FEBRUARY 19 - MTELUS FEBRUARY 22 - CAFÉ CAMPUS appearance — though even those sightings seemed dubious given the hype they’d leave in their wake. I first saw them in September during POP Montreal, an astonishingly fun show that was equal parts unrelenting and unpretentious. The band Brandon Kaufman Brandon played a danceable, freaked-out post-punk that they later Pottery captured on their impressive first single. Pottery’s keyboardist, was touring Europe with drummer necessary, as they did when they opened for Parquet Courts at Before I met up with them in January, the last time all five Paul Jacobs’ eponymous band. Tom Gould, who plays bass, Corona in December.) members were together was shortly after that September was home in England. I learned this after the fact, but it was show. Frontman Austin Boylan and guitarist Jacob Shepansky apparent in how excited they were to be together. (The band Pottery’s coming together in the first place is a story typical ISKWE MASS APPEAL VINCE STAPLES GAVIN JAMES stayed in Montreal in the ensuing months while Peter Baylis, has been known to perform with replacement players when of Montreal’s close-knit creative community. On Boylan’s first + ANACHNID FASHAWN + STRO + EZRI + 070 PHI + CANTRELL + BUDDY JAMES BLAKE + FOREST BLAKK FEBRUARY 28 - OLYMPIA day in Montreal, he was introduced to Shepansky through FEBRUARY 22 - LE MINISTÈRE FEBRUARY 26 - LE BELMONT FEBRUARY 28 - MTELUS MARCH 2 - FAIRMOUNT THEATRE a mutual friend. “We liked each other so much,” Shepansky says. The two would sit on their friends’ back porch for hours, taking turns playing music. They immediately began writing and jamming together, and eventually started playing with Jacobs, for whom Baylis was playing keys. In Feb. 2017, the band played their first show together, and by June they had Thursday, March 7, 9:30 p.m., $10/$13 recorded their first album. After Pottery’s first left the band, Gould, then a student at McGill, was recommended by Montreal musician ggpeach. He was added to the line-up in Nov. 2017. A BOWIE CELEBRATION: THE DAVID BOWIE ALUMNI TOUR THE CAT EMPIRE TOO MANY ZOOZ “I had heard about the album before I even joined,” Gould + NEAL FRANCIS + FIVE ALARM FUNK MARCH 2 - MTELUS told me. Pottery’s debut record remains unreleased, though MARCH 4+5 - MTELUS MARCH 7 - L’ASTRAL it is scheduled to finally come out in the spring. Sitting on the album was in part a product of the complicated logistics of a self-release, but the band also sought to create a sense of enigma and mystery. “‘Leave people wanting more’ is the mantra,” according to Shepansky. Jacobs adds that the staying power of art weeks, months or years after its creation is a sign that it’s something truly great.

That said, given its long gestation period, Pottery has become somewhat over-familiar with their first record. Though they WITHIN TEMPTATION + IN FLAMES THE BARR BROTHERS TEENAGE FANCLUB love the songs, they have been energized to look to the future. + SMASH INTO PIECES + SPECIAL GUESTS + HANK So energized, in fact, that they are already working on their MARCH 5 - OLYMPIA MARCH 7-8-9 - CORONA THEATRE MARCH 9 - PETIT CAMPUS second album. This creative drive is as propulsive as their sound, and its process was explained to me as an alchemy of the members’ catholic interests — a combination of eclectic styles like punk, country and world music leading to what the band describes as a “melting pot of influences.”

The guys from Pottery say they’ll add a few of these new cuts to their set to keep things interesting over the next few months. Their busy year starts on March 7, when the band headlines Bar le Ritz, then it’s on to SXSW. After that they’re opening for Viagra Boys on their North American tour before MATTHEW GOOD MEN I TRUST LIGHT THE TORCH + ALL THEM WITCHES playing a few festivals in Europe. Dates across Europe are + POESY + MICHAEL SEYER MARK MORTON + MOON TOOTH + POSSUM being planned. And so, it seems, the band’s mantra has paid MARCH 15 - CORONA THEATRE MARCH 16 - CORONA THEATRE MARCH 16 - L’ASTRAL MARCH 17 - L’ASTRAL off: people emphatically want more. Pottery, it is clear, are ready to give it to them.

≥ Pottery performs with guests at Bar le Ritz PDB (179 Jean-Talon W.) on /GREENLANDPROD /EVENKO

22 FEBRUARY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM FEBRUARY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 5 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 23 Space is Trump as muse the place by Lorraine Carpenter

Five into their career, Arkells

By Mr. Wavvy have ascended to a music-scene plateau populated by very few rock bands these Don’t put Jaymie Silk in a box. days. Call them Can-rock royalty if you

The French-born, Montreal-based producer has prided want — their American counterparts are himself in evading conformity over the past three fruitful the likes of or Maroon years of his career. His latest release Space Cowboy came out 5 (like Adam Levine and his stint on The in December on the Japanese club music powerhouse Trekkie Trax. However, Silk has not yet settled on a sole label for future Voice, Arkells singer Max Kerman has releases, opting to take a nomadic approach when it comes gained extra showbiz clout with a gig on to his creative endeavours. Such a mindset makes him the reality TV show The Launch). But given ultimate fit for DJing at Moonshine, the city’s favourite full- moon celebration. their pure-driven sound and Canadian humility, those comparisons do Arkells Recently, I hopped on Silk’s spaceship for a conversation about the recent EP and looking forward. a disservice. For a mainstream band, Arkells are amazingly likeable. On beginning his career as a hip hop producer:

“I started with rap music in France. It helped me a lot with Formed in Hamilton in the mid-aughts, the band has indie the sampling. When I switched over to Jaymie Silk with house roots, initially signing with Dine Alone Records before being music, people were more receptive because the skills were scooped up by Universal. Their beginnings were as basic as already there.” they come.

On his background in business: “One of the reasons I went to McMaster (University) and ended up in Hamilton was that I wanted to meet new people to jam “You have a lot of people just interested in music. That’s cool, with,” Kerman says. “I figured there’d be other like-minded but when you’re talking about music as an industry, you have people there who wanted to start a band. On the first day of to be aware of more. If you don’t specialize [in an education] on school, I met Mike, our guitarist, and on the second day, I met our bassist Nick. During welcome week, you can introduce yourself to anybody and it’s not weird, it’s just friendly — that’s one of the fun parts about going to college: everybody is in exactly the same boat. I was wearing a Sam Roberts the the t-shirt — this was the fall of 2004, Sam Roberts was one of my favourite Canadian artists — and Nick said, ‘Hey, I like Sam Roberts, too.’ That’s how the band started.” big big Raised in Toronto on his dad’s Beatles and Motown LPs, Kerman jammed with the neighbours and played in high school bands. He knew he’d been bitten by the music bug when Matt Barnes Matt he rented a home recorder one weekend and committed to The Arkells figuring the damn thing out. she’s working and how much she cares, and everything There wasn’t one specific WTF Trump moment that inspired BBAM! BBAM! “I don’t have much patience for technology,” he admits. “I she’s achieved in her career is something we all celebrate, “People’s Champ;” it actually emerged from an assignment of couldn’t even put together an Ikea set, that’s for sure, but I everybody in the crowd.” sorts.

Nick Younes Nick realized I must really care about recording this song or this Jaymie Silk idea if I’m spending hours and hours trying to get this thing Given the ubiquity of Arkells’ anthemic 2017 single “Knocking “Speaking of deadlines, I started doing this thing with my SHOW SHOW at the Door” (practically every major sports event in the year the industry side, you have to know the different layers. If you On refusing to conform: to work. I remember recognizing that in the moment: ‘If I’m roommate Greg where he’d go to work in the morning and I’d steben alexander. lacey jane want to open a burger place, it’s good to know how to make a willing to put myself through the torture of figuring out this that followed used it as theme music), it’s no surprise that tell him to give me a songwriting assignment: give me a lyrical carylann loeppky. belinda lye burger, but you’d also want to know how the culinary industry “When people are not comfortable, they tend to pass on ancient recording device, I guess I love this.’” the band chose to work with the same producer, Eric Ratz, on theme and a musical theme and maybe I’ll have something keight maclean & moira ness operates. [music]. Nowadays, everything has to be an instant bop. their latest album Rally Cry. With expanded instrumentation, for you by the time you get home from work. He told me one People don’t give the time for it to grow on them. When you Arkells’ success across Canada (they recently played to 24,000 deeper groove and as firm a punch as ever, the band’s sound is day, ‘You’re always ranting about Trump, so write a political ian shatilla (as Ian Stone) tight, though their approach to recording was less rigid than “If you do things alone, you have to know more. Then when make music that is different, you’re taking a risk. fans in Hamilton) is often credited to constant touring, and song and make it kind of throwback groovy à la Stevie Wonder it’s been in the past. people come wanting to work with you, you’re more aware of to the power of their live show, something Kerman takes meets — do that.’ Group show ends FEB 23. 2019 when something is not going well. With my life in general, I like “People need to know precisely what they’re listening to. great pride in. He’s often made reference to the importance of “I’ve become a believer in deadlines and also I’ve become bbam! gallery808 atwater to have control.” [Genres] can be pretty annoying. An A&R from [Skrillex’s concerts as communal experiences, especially in times like “The conundrum with Trump is I understand if you don’t like really confident in our band’s ability to work things through in label] OWSLA gave me advice, that I need to blend all of my these, when people are increasingly lost to social media and the status quo and you think your government isn’t looking On living in Montreal: the moment,” Kerman says. “We wanted to be really diligent influences in the music I make. Space Cowboy’s opening track limiting themselves to a very small bubble. after you, or that you’ve been left behind in some way, and I ‘Fuego’ is a beautiful example of that, you don’t know what it and responsible knowing that we had studio time booked DONIA (New York) would agree with anyone who felt that way,” Kerman explains. “I started in Montreal three years ago. Here, people mainly is. The music I love in the long-term is initially strange and I “The thing I take from being a fan of the concert is, more and it’s a costly thing — we need to be as hyper-prepared “But to assume that this guy is going to sort it out? That was see me as a DJ. I consider myself more of a producer, but some don’t like it. Three or six months later, I come back to it and than anything, the spirit in the room, what the vibe is like, as possible when we enter the studio. But I feel that we’ve Voyager. Mar 1-31 the problem I had. [The song] expands on that idea. people in the city don’t even know that I make music! I want to think it’s so dope.” and my favourite concerts are ones where everybody is all grown as musicians and we all trust our instincts and our be good at everything.” equally invested in the evening — the band and the crowd. I ability to problem-solve and to keep digging for the right “I mean you wouldn’t want this guy involved in any aspect of Mar 1. Vernissage On plans for 2019: recently saw Kacey Musgraves at the Danforth Music Hall, and creative solution, so I felt more confident in just going in with On keep his options open: your life, whether he was a relative or a teacher or an auto- everybody there was so excited to see her. They were singing a general framework and know that we’re going to get results Mar 2. Nuit Blanche mechanic. If someone tells me they’re anti-Hillary, I get it, “I’m already working on a mini-album. I think of my projects along to every word and it was a Friday so no one was thinking just by virtue of being together and working with a deadline.” “For what I do, I haven’t found that one label that best happening: as a book with mini chapters. The next one is less club music, about going to work the next day. there’s problems there, too, but this is definitely not the guy to represents me. Many are more interested in releasing a project open til 3am there’s more tracks with me singing. It’s pretty hard to get The first single from the album was “People’s Champ,” an solve your problems.” than helping develop an artist. [Moving around] is also an people to listen to club music in their car or the metro. I want “In the summertime, I saw Jay-Z and Beyoncé at FirstEnergy obviously anti-Trump song that never utters the name of the occasion to drop different styles. With Trekkie Trax, it’s club ≥ ART gallery.vinyl (new/used).coffee.music. this next project to take things to the next level.” Stadium in Cleveland, and Beyoncé, I think, brings out the heinous POTUS, but addresses him directly: “I’m looking for Arkells perform with openers Lord Huron at MTelus (59 Ste-Catherine tracks, pretty hard. It’s not the same type of records I could lionel groulx best in people. Watching her perform, you see how hard the people’s champ, and it ain’t you.” E.) on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m., $50.75 all-in 514.952.6190 BBAMGALLERY.COM drop on other labels.”

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If you’ve correctly come to the (Warp) (Dangerbird) conclusion that Lime is the With the ice and snow settled Montreal’s “orchestral rock greatest band to ever come out firmly in every crevice of the noir” band the Dears have of Montreal, then Restless will satisfy that impossible itch. by Johnson Cummins city, James Blake’s emotionally exhibited a knack for classic Otherwise, the uncanny valley-ness of it all might break the raw celestial vocals, on the pop and soul, employing strings illusion, leaving you with electro-pop that could be construed first listen to Assume Form, and synths the way the great as parody. I consider it legit, but I wouldn’t be shocked if you pathetic to the upper echelons of pop and crooner genius. sound bleak. But paying arrangers and of don’t. (Erik Leijon) In 1967, a young high schooler named Thankfully New Jersey label Bar None, which Chilton would attention to the warm-hearted the past used to. On his second 6.5/10 Trial Track: “The One” celestial chords that open the solo album, Lightburn fleshes Alex Chilton entered a Memphis call home in his later years, have obtained numerous rare album, it sounds like freedom out those influences, evoking recording studio for the very first time tracks, separated the wheat from the chaff and grouped them from the previous lamenting crooners, girl groups, Muscle Weezer, The Teal Album into two themed compilations. albums that Blake has Shoals and Motown. It’s a striking mix of pop numbers, slow (Atlantic) and slid behind a microphone to croon released. Richly layered production of flute flutters, melodic jams and areas in between, reflecting another side of a music In an effort to promote yet From Memphis to New Orleans is a collection of the R&B personality we thought we knew through and through. 7.5/10 piano structures, strings, deep bass and trap snares are another self-titled album due out a tune that would change his life tracks that made up the repertoire of his touring road trio Trial Track: “Changed My Ways” (Lorraine Carpenter) next month, Weezer surprise- paired with features from Rosalía, André 3000, Travis Scott, from the last 20 years of his life. By this time Chilton would released The Teal Album, a forever — “The Letter” by prefab band and . The total package is a rarely pick up the pen and chose to stuff his set list with genre-bending trip discussing mental states, love, especially project featuring 10 incredibly Love You)” doesn’t reduce you to a puddle, you may be too the Box Tops would become one of the obscure soul/doo wop/surf b-sides culled from thrift store romantic love — largely due to Blake’s current partner, as Ben Shemie, A Skeleton safe covers of songs that have callous for these moments of musical ascension. he explained on . This is the type of music that a Lord (Hands in the Dark) already been re-imagined to biggest songs of the ’60s. treasures. The song selection alone just underlines his well- Byron/Al Bowlly hybrid, who’s friends with the generation’s The debut solo LP by Suuns death throughout the years. Not earned title of the connoisseur of cool. For the uninitiated, I would wholeheartedly recommend top hip hop innovators, would make. 10/10 Trial Track: “Barefoot singer Ben Shemie is distinctly once throughout the album’s Chilton stayed with the Box Tops for two more years, the first two Big Star pop masterpieces #1 Record and duration does the band offer any in the Park” ft. Rosalía (Mira Silvers) different from the more and his subsequent four-decade career would be The second compilation of stray tracks collected by Bar None, Radio City, as well as the great rock doc Nothing Can Hurt raucous strides of his band, sliver of innovation in their approach to these timeless tracks. riddled with utter pop brilliance, even as he slowly the Blue Note jazz-tinged Songs From Robin Lane, is the real Me (2012, directed by Drew DeNicola). For the punters but sometimes shares a Though the album is sure to translate well in forthcoming slipped into obscurity, drug addiction, mental decay and treat for most ardent Chilton fans. As he croons through torch live performances, the record sounds no more exciting than who have been wondering where to leap after Big Star’s , Outer Peace similar proclivity for turning destitution. The real reason this power pop pioneer is songs by the likes of Chet Baker, it’s clear that this is where up the tension with propulsive purchasing a CD by a wedding band. 6/10 Trial Track: “Mr. Blue first forays, you will want to dig into the ultimate sound (Carpark)Chaz Bundick is not not another jumbled mess in the one hit wonder pile is Chilton’s heart really lies. Once called the Thelonious Monk progressions and shrill sounds Sky” (Mr. Wavvy) of midnight, Big Star’s 3rd, and the exquisite Chilton car one to repeat himself. For his because he was the frontman for rock ’n’ roll’s greatest of rhythm guitar by Hollywood bar urchin Tom “I would rather fifth full-length project in the that sometimes test a listener’s crashes of Like Flies on Sherbert and Bach’s Bottom. For patience. Much of the album will ever pop band: Big Star. have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy” Waits, the Chilton completist who have already been shelling out past five years, the singer- Chilton is simply magic on the un-accompanied tracks that producer ventures deeper into be new territory for Suuns fans, however — tracks evolve at at Discogs.com, these two new compilations will come as Before Chilton left this mortal coil in 2010, his post- just feature his sweet croon and incredible chord comping. the world of synth-pop. The varying paces, introducing beats and vocals sometimes, but nothing short of a revelation. songwriting on this outing is not always. Occasionally it’s just noise, but the album’s “pop” Big Star solo material was largely scattered across Although this is a rarely seen side of Chilton, his takes on sparse, with Bundick ditching classification on Soundcloud is appropriate as the songs are numerous small labels due to his penchant for signing these standards is just sublime and will provide your perfect traditional structure in lieux of rarely ambient. The best tracks are indecisive, hitting you with any contract thrust under his nose. Most of this output Sunday afternoon soundtrack. If Chilton’s smooth croon on Current Obsession: Alex Chilton, Like Flies on Sherbert a sparse, “thinking out loud” catchy hooks before easing into starry sonic tableaux. 7.5/10 has been out of print for years, with quality ranging from Cole Porter’s “All of You” or Ray Charles’s “Funny (But I Still [email protected] approach. Themes of capitalism Trial Track: “Differently” (Lorraine Carpenter)

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Arctic

By Alex Rose on Mars. It was a continuation of a science-fiction short film cinematographer who told us, ‘I don’t know how to work with that I had done on my YouTube channel. When The Martian snow, I don’t know how to light it.’ We shot in Iceland and we I would venture a guess that about 30 came out, we decided it was a little too close to what we were learned that if we hired an entirely Icelandic crew, they were trying to do. So what’s the most desolate place on Earth? It’s used to it. And it actually kept my spirits up! Any time that I per cent of the reading curriculum when either the Sahara or the Arctic. For some reason, the Sahara would get frigid and start shaking, I would look at them and I was in high school consisted of (mostly) just kind of feels like you’ll either walk out of it or die right they’d be fine! So I had to say to myself, ‘Okay, you can handle Canadian novels about being stranded in away. There’s no in-between, where you become this survival this, Joe!’ (laughs)” machine, basically.” wilderness. In some interviews, Mikkelsen has claimed that Arctic was the Arctic is extremely immediate, beginning in the heart of the hardest shoot he was ever on. Penna agrees. The influence of Hatchet, My Side of the Mountain and Lost action and never pausing. We don’t get any flashbacks to in the Barrens was so large that I spent a major part of my Overgård’s life before; we never get a sense of who the young “It’s definitely the hardest feature film that I’ve ever shot, adolescence assuming that I would one day have to fend for woman is, really. All of Arctic’s action is painstaking and highly but it was also the easiest feature film that I’ve ever shot!” myself when my plane exploded over Labrador. Suffice to detailed, a survival thriller with an effective but undeniably he jokes (it’s his first feature film). “The continuity involving say that I had a rather visceral reaction to the trailer for Joe barebones approach. the snow was incredibly difficult. We set up our base camp Penna’s Arctic, a harrowing adventure story wherein Mads and throughout the day we would just move it over a little Mikkelsen plays Overgård, a pilot who finds himself stranded “It’s polarizing, to use a word that’s close enough,” says Penna. bit. We’d pick a place that was relatively open and where the in the Arctic. The helicopter sent to rescue him also crashes “It’s something that we wanted to do to show that it doesn’t parallax wasn’t too different, so we could just sort of move under the harsh meteorological circumstances, killing the matter where he comes from — we still care about him and down. By the end of the day when we’d be done shooting, pilot and leaving the co-pilot (María Thelma Smáradóttir) we still care about what he does. It’s the same thing that he we’d have to walk back maybe two hours to set. Snowmobiles badly wounded and catatonic. Overgård takes it upon himself does for the woman — he doesn’t know who she is or even her would come and pick us up because we had moved so far to save the woman, even if her extremely precarious state name, but he still cares about her and we still care about her. away, inch by inch. makes the trek that much more difficult. It’s in theme with the film and what he does as a character.” “We also had other locations where we were stuck to a certain Knowing that director Joe Penna was born in Brazil made Of course, making a film like Arctic also requires bringing a location because of a rock or a piece of set that was too close. it unlikely that he, too, had grown up reading books about cast and crew to harsh subzero temperatures and asking them We’d need to, between every single take, take some brushes which berries will give you sustenance and which will give to do a job that’s already pretty difficult to do under perfect and clean up the snow and try to make it as close as possible. you deadly diarrhea. As it turns out, Arctic’s origins were very circumstances. Penna explains that it wasn’t really the cast For some parts of it, though, we had to CG virtual snow into it. different. and crew that needed to be convinced. But the vast majority of the film is one single take. There are maybe five or six scenes where we did two or three takes, and “It’s very voyeuristic for me,” he says. “I lived in Massachusetts “I can’t tell you how many people told us, ‘This film is going to those were due to audio or focus issues.” for 10 years and that was my Arctic… but nowhere near as cost you $20-million and it’s not gonna be worth it,’” he says. cold as the real Arctic — or even, I suppose, Chicago right now! “It’s more difficult because of the snow and the footprints. The initial script was actually not set in the Arctic - it was set There were some initial considerations that we had for a ≥ Arctic opens in theatres on Friday, Feb. 15.

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Roads in February

By Alex Rose the film and the culture clash of this sharing of daily life. This so much simpler and less stressful than her life. At one point, feeling that it’s very banal and quiet and there’s not much she meets a young man from the village who immediately tells When someone asks Sarah, the protagonist going on — but there is a lot going on, after all.” him his dream is to move to Buenos Aires, where the action is. in Katherine Jerkovic’s Roads in February, Roads in February explores the unevenly balanced “There are two fantasies, really,” says Jerkovic. “There’s the where’s she’s from, her answer is “it’s relationship between Sarah and Magda; they’re grown-ups fantasy of the better place, which is why people emigrate. complicated.” That’s also what Jerkovic’s who have known each other all of Sarah’s life, but have never And then, once they’ve emigrated, there’s the fantasy of the spent time as adults. There’s a sense that Magda needs hometown, the past and the nostalgia. The movie is trying to official bio on her website says — Sarah to be not only like her son, but to somehow be him in deconstruct these two fantasies, this idea of the lost paradise but Roads in February isn’t exactly his absence. This creates an incredible unspoken tension of home. The idea that there is a place where you’ll come back between the two protagonists. There are moments in Roads and really feel at home — I don’t think that exists.” autobiographical. in February that feel as tense as any thriller, and yet what you see on-screen is just two women putting away groceries. Even though Roads in February was entirely shot in Uruguay “Apparently, a first feature is almost always autobiographical,” and is pretty much 100 per cent in Spanish, it’s officially a says Jerkovic. “It is, of course, but since I’ve already written “It’s a complicated relationship because they have known Quebec movie, from the funding down to what it explores. a second and a third feature, I’ve made shorts… For me, it’s each other for a long time, but not as adults,” says Jerkovic. (The film won the Best Canadian First Feature Film at TIFF always based on personal experience and people I’ve known. “Sarah is shaped by the culture up here and her experience last year and was named among Canada’s Top Ten.) Jerkovic I think in this case it’s more obvious — a lot more evident. with it, which makes them very different. For me, I think all has lived in Montreal for over a decade and, although her Before this film, I made a short where the main character was that stuff is pretty common in movies: the culture clash, background is “complicated,” Roads in February tells a very a man — it was also quite autobiographical for me, but the the learning to know each other again. For me, what was Québécois story in its own way. It speaks a growing trend in fact that it was a man hid it a little bit. I guess for this film I a bit special and what I tried to put in there was this idea Quebec cinema of filmmakers making films about a different wanted to be more honest about that. There are many things that, even though she was fond of me, my grandmother was kind of Québécois experience: films made with Quebec money that come from experience, but then again, it’s a long writing expecting my father. My father just didn’t come and visit, but perhaps shot in a language that isn’t French or English or process in which you find a lot of fictional elements to make for some reason; he didn’t maintain the link I did. So she even shot within the confines of the province. it work.” was happy to see me, but I was very quickly called to answer for my father. It was strange because, in this sense, it was “As a filmmaker you have to ask yourself ethical questions Sarah (Arlen Aguayo-Stewart) travels to her native Uruguay not an even relationship either. I was going there to see her, constantly,” she says. “You have a huge responsibility. Even after a decade living in Canada with her parents. She shows but in her affection for me, I could see that she was missing if you’re getting public funding, you’re making movies - you’re up in her grandmother Magda’s (Gloria Demassi) sleepy her son and wondering why he wasn’t coming. Sometimes, making an object that’s addressed to other people, that village more or less unannounced, which both pleases and I was almost a diplomatic representative for my father — people are going to be absorbing and paying attention to. You disrupts her stubborn, set-in-her-ways grandmother. The and it didn’t bother me, really. I accepted this. That’s what I have huge ethical responsibilities starting from the writing: is two begin a tentative cohabitation, with Magda expressing wanted to show, because I think that relationships are always this a story I want to write? Is this justified? Am I making easy disappointment over her granddaughter’s perceived lack asymmetrical. Sometimes, you give some sort of love or choices? Am I making common choices? Is my character’s of ambition (she’s dropped out of school and works as a presence or generosity to someone who isn’t asking for it or dignity preserved? Sometimes I see movies where they feel bartender) and Sarah’s feelings about her late father, who doesn’t need it so much. It’s about different ways of loving they have to victimize their characters in order to build them never made it back to Uruguay to visit his mother before his each other.” up again, or to garner empathy from the audiences. I hate this. untimely death. There’s a lot of it, you know? The poor immigrant having a hard Another recurring theme in the film is this idea of what time. You have to be very honest and rigorous with yourself, to “I still have family in Uruguay and Argentina,” she continues. Jerkovic calls “the fantasy of the better place”. Magda really look at what the audience is going to be left with.” “I’ve travelled to visit them, and I was very fond of my paternal assumes that Canada is a land of endless opportunity and grandmother, although she lived in Argentina rather than that Sarah is squandering that opportunity by dropping out Uruguay. Spending time with her inspired the ambiance of of school; Sarah assumes that small-town life in Uruguay is ≥ Roads in February opens in theatres on Friday, Feb. 8.

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Cold Pursuit Fighting With My Family

The Prodigy Alita: Battle Angel

By Alex Rose Pete Davidson. On the other hand, director Adam Shankman Order of Disappearance, which screened at Fantasia in 2014) (Rock of Ages, Cheaper by the Dozen 2) has a pretty spotty and that the original’s director, Hans Petter Molland, returns The idea that January is a dumping ground resumé. behind the camera. for movies the studios have lost all hope in Isn’t It Romantic (Feb. 15) boasts a premise that would be I wasn’t too fond of Gaspar Noé’s psychotronic mind-melt has started to fade. While it’s very easy to interesting — Rebel Wilson is “stuck” in a perma-romcom — if Climax when I saw it at TIFF, but it goes without saying that all pinpoint what these dumpees are, they’re it didn’t seem increasingly likely that most of these jokes were of Noé’s films are a trip; this elastic nightmare about a dance already done in We Came Together. Nevertheless, the film troupe who spends a snowed-in night accidentally tripping on usually scattered throughout a more robust (which co-stars Liam Hemsworth and Adam Devine) comes LSD-spiked punch is certainly not for everyone, but whoever month than we’ve seen in years past. out a day after Valentine’s Day, so who knows how much faith it’s for will be extremely stoked. Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody anyone has in this thing. Taylor Schilling stars in The Prodigy Knows was welcomed with slightly less enthusiasm than his February is much the same: it has no real identity as a movie (Feb. 8), a junky horror movie about a woman who finds out her few previous films, but Farhadi remains a major international season and presents a grab bag of whatever. The biggest gifted son may be more than just gifted. It’s frankly the kind of auteur — and he’s working with Javier Bardem and Penélope chunk of whatever this month is is likely Alita: Battle Angel movie that entirely bypasses theatres these days. Also stuck Cruz here, which can’t hurt either. On the auteur front, I think (Feb. 14), a long-gestating anime adaptation directed by in that boat: Happy Death Day 2 U (Feb. 15), a sequel to the it’s also worth pointing out that Steven Soderbergh’s latest, Robert Rodriguez but lovingly developed over two decades dopey but surprisingly successful Groundhog-Day-as-slasher High Flying Bird, is premiering on Netflix on Feb. 8. Set in the by James Cameron (who, officially, wrote and produced this). sleeper hit from a few years ago. I can’t imagine what’s left to world of professional basketball, High Flying Bird was written I found the result surprisingly fun; while generally narratively explore of this concept, but Blumhouse has done pretty well by Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight) and stars Anthony baffling and packed with awful dialogue, this adaptation with very little in the past. Mackie and Zazie Beetz. (which stars Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz and Mahershala Ali) nails the silly/serious tone of manga. Stephen Merchant’s Fighting With My Family (Feb. 15) is being February also marks the beginning of Les Rendez-vous Québec released mere weeks after its Sundance premiere, where Cinéma, the festival that also doubles as a “year-in-review” Two other sure shots hit theatres this month in the form it was received rather positively. The WWE-produced film event for regional film. That often coincides with the release of of The Lego Movie 2 (Feb. 8) and How to Train Your Dragon: is a biopic of British wrestler Paige (played in the film by several local productions. Besides Roads in February (profiled The Hidden World (Feb. 22), two continuations of popular Florence Pugh), who grew up in a family of wrestlers. Though on p. ?), this month sees the release of the co-production animated franchises that are certain to deliver more of the the general consensus seems to be that the WWE essentially Troisièmes noces (Feb. 8), a dramatic comedy starring War same. Another “franchise” being given a would-be sequel funded a long commercial for themselves (Dwayne “The Witch’s Rachel Mwanza and Bouli Lanners as a mismatched 18 years later is, bafflingly, the 2000 rom-com What Women Rock” Johnson cameos as himself, of course), the film has pair forced into an arranged marriage; Denis Côté’s Ghost Town Want. What Men Want (Feb. 8) is a gender-swapped variation more heart than its genesis might lead you to believe. Liam Anthology (Feb. 14), a ghostly supernatural drama that more or with Taraji P. Henson in the Mel Gibson role. The original Neeson stars as a vengeful snowplow driver in Cold Pursuit less defies simple description (a Côté staple); and Avant qu’on has aged terribly, so there’s pretty much no way to go but (Feb. 8), a film that would easily be lumped into Neeson’s explose (Feb. 28), a teen sex comedy from director Rémi St- up — and the supporting cast is a true WTF assortment that prolific vengeful-old-man output if it wasn’t for the fact that Michel and screenwriter Éric K. Boulianne (Prank, De père en includes Erykah Badu, Tracy Morgan, Brian Bosworth (!) and it’s actually a remake of an excellent Icelandic thriller (In flic 2) which was also selected to open the festival.

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CONTACTEZ-NOUS POUR PLUS D’INFORMATIONS: T: 514.876.4572 E: [email protected] ILSC Continuing Education 410 Rue Saint Nicolas, Suite 300, Montreal, Quebec H2Y 2P5 The In-Between MÉTRO: PLACE-D’ARMES ET SQUARE-VICTORIA-OACI CONTINUING-EDUCATION.ILSC.COM/MONTREAL By Dave Jaffer “Young people have a whole variety of relationships to “The diversity of our society is experienced most directly technology,” adds Youssef, noting that he knows young people by kids in school, because (schools are) our biggest public who eschew social media altogether. Writing a play with the There is a tendency to view certain kinds of institution,” he says. “(The play is) really about three kids ability to foster dialogue between various generations, he art forms as more adult than others. Opera living through the consequences of living in a really diverse says, included knowing enough to not resort to reductive place.” generational clichés about how young people live their lives comes to mind. So do ballet, painting, online. sculpture and various other fine arts. Those three kids are high school students Lily, Brit and Karim. Lily feels trapped because of a conflict between Brit, her “People are still navigating the same questions people Sometimes a given form is split in two to create castes best friend, and Karim, the guy she likes. The conflict itself is have always navigated. Yes, that’s mediated in a somewhat of quality — observe the difference between “film” wrapped within layers of all-too-relatable high school goings- different way, and yes technology has impact, but you know and “movies,” for instance. Other times there’s a blunt on and happenings. In The In-Between, this includes racist, what? People are still falling in love with each other, and demarcation to let you know that one thing is for grown-ups anti-Muslim social media memes and a provocation that trying to figure out whether to have sex or not, and drinking, and another thing is for those who can’t (yet) appreciate leads to a school-wide lockdown. and smoking, and now vaping, and all the same things are something finer: “pop” art/music vs. art/music; YA fiction vs. happening. I think it’s really important to remember that, fiction; the CW vs. HBO. Geordie Artistic Director Mike Payette — last year’s META because the bill of goods we’ve been sold from the beginning winner for Outstanding Direction for Around the World in 80 is that (technology) is going to change everything.” Theatre is most always treated as one of those “adult” art Days — is directing The In-Between, and says there’s “not a forms, and Geordie Theatre has almost always blown a huge difference” in his approach when he’s directing shows Both Youssef and Payette emphasize the idea that The In- raspberry at that notion. They’ve created award-winning and aimed at younger audiences. Between is a piece that creates a space for conversation. thought-provoking theatre for children and teenagers for almost 40 years and show no signs of slowing down. “In every piece that I direct, I look for the things that are both “The challenges don’t come with how we address it to the unique and universal within the story,” he says. “I think that immediate audience that we’re playing for,” says Payette. “It’s This weekend, Marcus Youssef’s The In-Between will start a in this case you know how resilient and intelligent younger really about, ‘What is the bridge we can create between them three-day public-facing run as part of Geordie Theatre Fest at audiences are, so it calls for extra authenticity, for lack of a and the ones we want them to have the conversation with’ — Monument-National (Studio Hydro Québec). Given the state better term. They can see through the bullshit; they can see the adults in their lives.” of contemporary conversations about race and immigration when there’s an element that’s too preachy, or (when they’re) across the country and everything that is brutally obvious being talked down to. Youssef, himself a father of two “Gen-Z children,” says that about where young people have their political beliefs shaped, The In-Between isn’t about simple binaries like right/wrong or its timing is apt. “It forces all of the artists involved to really pay attention to winning/losing because that’s not how the world works. that and not get bogged down by what the play is about — the The In-Between is “a play for teenagers inspired by a kind of climate of xenophobia or what it’s like to be a young person in “Each character in the play, though they come from meme-y story that happened a few years ago,” says Youssef. that high school ecology — but [to look] at the fundamental very different experiences, attempts to navigate their He’s referring to Ahmed Mohamed, who brought a homemade heart of these human beings that connect them.” relationships,” he says. “It’s pretty complex, and there’s clock to school in Irving, Texas, and ended up being no good guy and bad guy at all. There are people trying to, fingerprinted, mugshot and thrown in a detention facility Regarding connection, both director and playwright mention as most humans do, navigate a complex series of social because various faculty members decided that the clock that their production aims to connect with young people by relationships in really personal ways. looked too much like a bomb. showing them a world they can easily relate to. Namely, a technologically and digitally oriented one. “We can talk about racism, we can talk about all of those (Read: they decided he looked too much like a bomber. The things, but ultimately a lot of it is navigated and manifested irony of Irving being about 200 miles from Oklahoma City “We (use) contemporary references,” says Payette, “so there’s in interpersonal relationships. That’s where a lot of stuff gets should not be lost on anyone.) actually a couple of places through the use of technology acted out.” — because social media is the fourth character in the play — where we can show images, we can show videos that are The In-Between is not about Ahmed Mohamed, though. ≥ The In-Between‘s public-facing performances are happening at Youssef says it’s “about how kids in high school most actually references to the inspiration as well. It’s not just directly live with the consequences of immigration.” While useful for the teens, it’s useful for the adults that want to Monument-National’s Studio Hydro Québec (1182 St-Laurent) from Feb. “consequences” seems like an odd word to use, it makes more engage in conversation with the teens afterwards.” He’s 8–10 (Feb. 8 is sold out), $22.43/$20.13 students & seniors/$17.25 teens sense as the playwright elaborates. referring to both parents and teachers, here. 13–17, $15.53

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by Nora Rosenthal A UNIQUE THE MOST Quebecer and [we wanted] this thing that was both local but that time when things are still malleable and changing was AWAITED NIGHT resonates more broadly. really interesting to both of us. MEETING On a sunny Monday afternoon in late PLACE OF THE YEAR! Terrance Richard: We wanted a playful name and a name that HD: And I feel like the cultural capital transfer when an artist The Maison du January, I sat down with Hugo Dufour and was catchy to a certain degree but also we didn’t want it to be NUIT shows work through a show with a curator is in a big part Festival dons its best Terrance Richard, friends and roommates completely irrelevant. We didn’t want it to be a name that was going to the curator and the space. But giving space to talking BLANCHE chef’s hat and an who run the artist residency Céline out of nowhere that then felt like you had to be very in it to get and debate, just bringing in outliers — that’s what I love. I love PRESENTED IN apron as white as Bureau out of their home. They’re sharp it. We didn’t want something that was– crits. I love critique. And that’s an art that’s being lost. COLLABORATION WITH snow to transform THE CASINO DE MONTRÉAL as they come, easefully chatting about art HD: Too cool. NR: Who out there is creating a space external to galleries into an authentic institutions, community and how they’ve where you’re really getting that critique? Quartier Gourmand, MARCH NR: So what was the process like getting started? How many quelled some of their cynicism about arts dedicated to fi ne Over 200 activities nasty bureaucratic surprises were there as far as just getting HD: I really love — and of course we’re not doing the same food and the sharing spaces by creating a residency where this functioning and off the ground? thing, we’re two white people — but I really love what White spread across the city. of knowledge. critique and process are always at the Pube has done in the U.K. They’re a duo of art critics, two non- HD: To be honest not many because we kept it low key and white women who just give coherent critique from their point foreground. that’s the goal, that’s the public of Céline. We don’t want to of view. They go around and are vocal about art and it’s just be intimidating. It was really in reaction to the pompousness this framework of– Presented in collaboration with Presented by as part of of many even small art institutions. We do Céline Bureau to Céline Bureau emerged out of Dufour and Richard’s desire to create new networks for people because it’s hard. You leave TR: Realness. bridge that post-art school isolation, that moment in an early school and one third of the people leave and one third stop arts practice where you want to reach out but don’t know doing art and then the third that’s left might not have been HD: Yeah, realness. I think they’ve shaken the scene a bit to whom. With each of Céline’s calls, typically three times a the people you were hanging with at school, so there’s a big in London, from what I’ve seen. They reveal just by their year, they accept four artists across disciplines, ages and loneliness, a big drop and Céline is that step where we’re presence the whole white dudeness of all these institutions, backgrounds to come and work side by side. like, hey, there are other people who might be interesting to or just by calling out the boringness of so many art shows. collaborate with outside of your bubble of language, practice, There’s a big omertà about critiquing institutions — we all do Nora Rosenthal: Do you want to tell me where the name age, etc. it but it’s never public. And that’s the most refreshing thing Céline Bureau comes from? that they’ve done. It’s just– NR: Has Céline changed how you think of your own arts Hugo Dufour: There are many reasons. We wanted to have practice? Cause you’ve become these community facilitators. TR: Fearless. something that was typically from Quebec but was also a pun in two languages, or evoked two different things in HD: First of all it made me discover many nice artists. It really NR: What continues to make Céline dear to you? different languages. So, Céline of course will evoke Céline made me feel good [laughs]. It’s also let me get rid of many of Dion but Céline in Quebec is a very common name — it evokes the rules I had in my head like, ‘Oh I’m a photographer,’ ‘Oh, I’m HD: We’ve mentioned community but it’s also about Montreal. WHITEHORSE DOMINIQUE FILS-AIMÉ SORAN everybody’s ma tante, and Bureau means something both in an installation artist,’ ‘Oh, I’m making robots with knives that It’s a huge hope to have more reasons for people to stay and February €, ƒ p.m. • L’Astral March 1, ƒ p.m. • L’Astral OPENING ACT: JORDANN French and English though with a different nuance which for spin.’ When you’re an artist it’s so easy to paint yourself in a make links here. March 2, ƒ p.m. • L’Astral us was funny. corner, like ‘That’s what I do’ — you’re forced to. TR: I think we’re both much more validated personally on We knew we wanted to have this campy serious thing, you TR: Yeah you have to have a brand, kind of. Or it’s hard to be the social aspect — the humanity of it! [laughs]. This friend know? We also felt that nothing was campier than a news chaotic. who did the residency and who’s now living with us, it’s really anchor, or more campy/serious, than a news anchor. It’s a happy to talk about art or engage with it [with her]. MONTREALENLUMIERE.COM performative seriousness; like the fake accent that they all HD: And Céline just makes me want to collaborate. ‘Oh you have and the tasteful yet outlandish power suits. So Céline write,’ ‘Oh you draw,’ ‘Oh you just talk’ — it’s freeing to be in HD: I mean of course there’s a power dynamic since we choose Bureau is also an amalgam of two news anchors on Radio- contact with other artists. the people here but we try and have a relationship with the MAJOR PARTNERS Canada: Céline Galipeau and Stéphan Bureau. artists that are here where the power dynamic is limited. It’s TR: I think realizing that fulfillment came in that capacity an exchange. This thing came from a certain disillusion with We’re both from Quebec, and both from very different parts was really fun. And we were less interested in the processed the art world in my case and this project helps me find joy in of Quebec. [Terrance is] an anglo Quebecer and I’m a franco timeline of only dealing with finished work. Being present in it again.

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The former French-edition Elle magazine editor-in- chief Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which Julian Schnabel adapted for the screen in 2007, recounts the author’s traumatic art experiences with a rare form of paralysis called locked- in syndrome following a massive stroke he suffered in empowerment late 1995. Bauby was left with only the motor control over one of his eyes, so the book was painstakingly written by Bauby blinking to indicate letters that a transcriber would read aloud. A typical word took two minutes. community + dance + performance + screening

That kind of paralytic, glacial timescale characterizes the depths of Canadian winters, too. There is nothing quite like a foot of overnight snow to make one feel marikiscrycrycry locked-in, with little more than time to contemplate. series What creeps in in these elongated moments? Sometimes we might recount lost love, or perseverate $ELFIE$ over regret. Sometimes we might give quarter to APRIL 12-27 impossible imaginings and fanciful dreams. “Other than my eye,” Bauby wrote, “two things aren’t paralyzed: my imagination and my memory.”

Keiko Devaux, “À perte de vue…”, Orchestre de l’Université de Montréal, Maison Symphonique, Dec. 8, 2018

We must all agree that there is a difference between something and nothing. Scientific thought is constructed upon the idea of a precise moment

of detectability of phenomena to the senses. But Julian-Rosefeldt sometimes, especially over long periods of time, Cate Blanchett in Julian Rosefeldt, “Manifesto” the difference between nothing and something is indiscernible to human faculties. A subtle shift takes place that no one notices at first. But that shift largely carries these obligations off with wit and style. It Light Conductor, “A Bright Resemblance,” Sequence One contains universes of potential for upheaval and is a highly conceptual work that subsumes conceptuality. (Constellation Records) change. Increasingly in recent years, we’ve fallen The project is the perfect role for Blanchett, who victim to subtle shifts in the wrong direction, so some transforms astonishingly from eulogist to schoolmarm to “Of reality there’s only presence and absence somethings are now nothings. puppeteer to punk. Honestly, though, I would turn up to see her read from the phone book. For instance, the 10-year challenge that unfolded in I’ll tell the truth: January on social media, in addition to profile photos from 2009 also turned up images of climate change’s all of us are nothing devastating effects on the ecosystem: glaciers melting Nkisi, “VII,” 7 Directions (UIQ) into the sea; vibrant coral reefs turned deadly white; neither sky nor land entire forests sheared. Crosscutting from one decade Many religions practise some form of devotional to another puts incremental change into bold relief. circumambulation — the act of moving around a holy we no longer have children Will we do nothing and mark the precise moment when idol or object. Jews dance around the scrolls on Simchat Earth’s temperatures rise past the tipping point? Or will Torah, at the end of a year-long scriptural readings cycle; we’re the fog which’s evaporating on a river we manage to make those seemingly imperceptible but Muslims circumambulate the Kaaba — Islam’s holiest crucial changes before the future fades from the scene, site — seven times during the Hajj, the annual sacred of words like an airplane disappearing from view? pilgrimage to Mecca; the Bantu-Kongo spiritual tradition, montréal, arts interculturels arts montréal, too, speaks of a “seven-direction walk” to connect the self rust in the sky and its constellations and the universe. © Malik Nashad Sharpe m-a-i.qc.ca rust in existence Julian Rosefeldt, “Manifesto,” Musée d’art contemporain, Circumambulation is also used to defeat enemies, like a Jan. 12, 2019 lion encircling its prey, as in the story of Joshua’s conquest of Jericho. For six days, the Bible says, Joshua’s army + AFROGALACTICA kapwani kiwanga Works of art-about-art are always burdened by their marched around the walled city. On the seventh day, My country is a refugee in me.” dual duties of contributing something significant to art seven priests blowing seven ram’s horns circumambulated + SEANCERS jaamil olawale kosoko + TERRESTRIAL jumatatu m. poe criticism, as well as standing on their own as legitimate Jericho, and its walls fell. This is something that Donald —excerpt, Out of the Magic of Venom: Creation, Kathy and unique pieces. Julian Rosefeldt’s installation, in Trump doesn’t understand: irrespective of fences or walls Acker which Cate Blanchett performs 13 of the art world’s or imaginary borders, the rest of the world has America most important manifestos as cinematic tableaux, surrounded. @ryandiduck

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