Arts

Unfulfilled dreams, heartache, desolation and a blackout were experienced in Chris Abraham's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, metaphorically and, well, quite literally. The latter was a result of two consecutive power failures which caused a delay in the scheduled 8:30 p.

On Sunday evening, guitarist and composer Tim Brady filled Oscar Peterson Concert Hall with experimental sounds that you normally wouldn't expect to hear coming from a guitar. Brady performed along with Montreal's Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, as a part of the 2002 Guitar

Get ready for some servants who like to play dirty as Frontrunner Theatre is puts on The Maids. Although the life of servants was featured prominently in last year's Gosford Park, don't expect this inaugural play from Frontrunner Theatre to be anything like it.

Toronto's Bodega have something going for them, and they certainly seem to know it. Last Thursday's show at the Casa Del Popolo, part of the Pop Montreal festival that took place over the weekend, clearly displayed that this four-man pop ensemble knows how to sneak their brand of poppy sweetness into your soul whether or not you think you're interested.

Harold and Maude (1971) If you're like me, the most common thing you have heard about this movie is that it involves an old woman hooking up with a teenage guy. OK, so this happens (in one suggested scene) but really this wonderful, off-beat, coming-of-age comedy has nothing to do with granny porn.

Director Wych Kaosayananda, who goes by the name Kaos, makes his first feature film debut thusly desecrating the very fabric of Lucy Liu's appeal, and whatever appeal Antonio Banderas had left. Ballistic is a deplorable debacle offering nothing but lunacy while one is confined to their seat.

With her new exhibit, Les Mondes Frax 4D, Canadian photographer Holly Marie Armishaw proves that science and art can co-exist in harmony. The first thing that grabs your attention as you enter the exhibit is its atmosphere. Stepping off the street, you enter a townhouse, converted into a string instrument atelier.

It's a mix between a juice bar, an ice cream shop, a caf

As a product of a the Canadian education system, I have certain ideas of what slavery looks like (bullwhips and cotton fields), what Canada's role in the North American slave trade was (heroes of the Underground), and what an art exhibit on slavery would entail (broad, dramatic and heartwrenching).

Let's get the problems from the sold-out Sept. 19 show dealt with first. It may be a bit small, but the Casa del Popolo is a good place to see a show. . . in the winter. I can't begin to imagine what the place was like over the summer, but on this warm mid-September evening it was borderline unbearable.

Montreal being the cultural melting pot that it is, you'd think that a festival celebrating the ever-enveloping independent music scene would have showed its face years ago. Well, for whatever reason it never did, but music lovers in Montreal are now being rewarded for their patience with Pop Montreal, a festival that has attracted indie bands from all over North America (even a few overseas) and will inhabit the Plateau Sept.

Quiet Harmony, a collection of Mary Hiester Reid's work now touring Canada, has stopped by Concordia's Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery. The exhibit, curated by Concordia's own professors Brian Foss and Janice Anderson, showcases the work of the late Mary Hiester Reid, an often forgotten and rare Canadian talent from the early 1900's.