1986

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In February, the Mirror begins publishing every three weeks, but circulation is up to 20,000. The offices move to 307 Ste-Catherine W., the paper gets its first business manager (Joe Martek), first sales manager (Leanne Staples) and first sales rep (Paul Etch).

Hall of Famers: Susan Ayscough, Claudio Calligaris, Steve Doucet, Greg Clarke, Patricia Kearns, Mark Kelley, Miklos Legrady, Mary J. Martin, Norman Matarasz, Albert Nerenberg, Clea Notar, Melanie Reinblatt, Tommasso Rossy, Dave Sapin, Stan Shatenstein, Boris Shedov, John Sobol.

*news

On the case

"The spy-catching business is increasingly a yuppie business; by all accounts, the year-old domestic surveillance agency is very style conscious. The agents at the port, a man and a woman, both thirtyish, wore fashionable denim, and drove a beige Ford Thunderbird. A reliable source says agents can still be spotted by their feet--they apparently wear sturdy, sensible walking shoes... If you've had encounters with the CSIS, give the Mirror a call. Help flesh out a growing file."

--Julien Feldman

Auf der Mayor

"Downtown City Councillor Nick Auf der Maur has temporarily had his name modified to 'Auf der Mayor' on posters plastered (illegally) all over his district, under the auspices of a 'Draft Nick Auf der Maur' committee... Sources say however, that his candidacy is simply a slick gimmick hatched somewhere in Crescent St., calculated to give him a high profile during the election campaign--a desperate attempt to save his council seat from the hard-charging MCM."

--Daniel Sanger and Julien Feldman

Abortion access under attack * Habs win the Stanley Cup, riot ensues * First article about AIDS on Feb. 6 * Baby Doc's henchman, Dr. Roger Lafontant, "finds comfortable exile in Montreal" * Drapeau resigns with headline: "Drapeau's first 10,000 days" * A very green Jean Doré * "Are complaints about the MUC police department unfounded and frivolous?" * SOS Racism Canada launches * "This article is not meant as a collective indictment of any nationality, Romanian or otherwise," post-script to a piece by Albert Nerenberg on the Iron Guard * Beluga whales threatened * Skinhead attack at Rising Sun * Sonic-jet booms over Labrador * Iranian-Israeli Contra Crisis

*music

Top Five, July 3

(CHOM's New Music Foundation)

1. 54-40 - 54-40

2. Furniture - Brilliant Mind

3. Serge Fiori - Fiori

4. Run DMC - Raising Hell

5. The The - Sweet Bird of Youth

Good taste

"The Cramps covered Elvis, Lux uncovered himself, stripping off the fringed Western jacket of his gold lamé suit. Ivy complemented him in gold-spangled harem scarem. Lux bent mike into scraps; caterwauled 'Surfin' Bird' with the most disgusting noises possible; bats and warthogs on acid. Then he dropped his pants and, down to black and gold gauntlets, humped the speakers. Would Elvis have done this, had he been permitted to? The epitome of good taste."

--Jenny Ross

You bet

"Do designer drugs like Ecstasy stand the chance of catching on with a generation of the new kool-aid acid testers?"

--John David

PiL at the Paladium * Gassenhauer * Sons of the Desert * American Devices play the Douglas Hospital * Disappointed a Few People don't * Cowboy Junkies * 39 Steps * Weather Permitting * Secret Act * Alternative Inuits * Block Parents * VOT records * The Bangles & the Hoodoo Gurus at the Spectrum * Karen Young and Michel Donato * Asexuals' Contemporary World * SCUM's Born Too Soon * Three O'Clock Train's Wig Wam Beach * It Came From Canada II! * Yoko Ono show sold out * Cave Stomp Extravaganza * The Rising Sun * Le Steppe * Tangerine Dream at PdA * Francois Bourassa Trio * Kali & Dub Inc. * René Lussier

*film

Our kind of girl

"Pretty in Pink depicts 18 year olds the way the under-14 set would like them to be. Molly Ringwald's father is unemployed but she supports herself by working in a record store that carries all the latest imports. She drives a little pink car to her favourite sleazy punk places. She dresses in all the latest punkette clothes (which she makes herself) and she doesn't even have to argue with her father about how many earrings she can wear in each ear."

--José Arroyo

No core

"If nothing else, 91/2 Weeks has aroused a controversy over whether the film is soft-core or hard-core. The debate, however, is spurious. This film has no core."

--Stan Shatenstein

Le Déclin de l'empire americain * The ever-prolific Bachar Ch'Bib * Demetrios Estedelacropolis' Shirley Pimple due for "summer release" * The 7th International Festival of Super 8 Film * Silence Elles Tournent and Cinémama * NFB's Sitting in Limbo * AIDS: trop jeune pour mourir

*arts

Spoken what?

"Is this Performance/Poetry some sort of phenomenon? Maybe. What is new is the fact that we are paying more attention to it than before."

--Renato Trujillo

O Vertigo turns two * Carbone 14's Titanic * René-Daniel Dubois' Being at Home With Claude * Monique Mercure * Other Voices, anthology of black Canadian writing * Ginette Laurin & Édouard Lock: "daredevils of new dance" * Mime Omnibus * Miro * René Richard Cyr * The world according to Graff * Marie Tifo * Controversy at La Vie en rose

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