1987

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On November 27, readers are treated to the Mirror's first full-colour cover, featuring filmmaker Richard Attenborough. In the excitement, however, his name is spelled incorrectly. The paper publishes biweekly starting Aug. 7 and includes fashion spreads, Agit-Prop and Out in the City. Montrealers have several rep theatres to choose from, a new laundromat called Net Net, shop at Bronx and frequent nightspots from Floorshaker to Lux, from Black-Lite to Business.

Hall of famers: Matilde Beausoleil, Josh Bezonsky, Paul King Cassar, Jeff Deeprose, René Donati, Janou Fleury, Michelle Gagnon, John K. Grande, Kristian Gravenor, Gary Jean, Deirdre Keohane, Martha-Marie Kleinhans, Marian McNair, Ned Meredith, Mark Pinkus, Byron Rempel, James Ramsay, Don Rossiter, Kathe Roth, Jack Ruttan, David Sanders, David Shannon, Alan Taylor, Gerry Wagschal, Wolfe Wall, Brendan Weston, Stanley Whyte.

*news

Albert's blob

"A blob lies over Montreal. This blob has already taken over the western world and is now seeping into every aspect of life, jobs, housing, the media, the government and even the sex life of everyone in Montreal. And the blob wants more."

--Albert Nerenberg on "How the boomers monopolize Montreal"

R.I.P. Overdale

"Under the present deal, it is inevitable that the vibrant Overdale community--referred to as 'an oasis in the downtown' and composed of artists, students and the working poor--will not survive."

--From News on 4, July 3

Sleeping with Rael

"Shame on the Mirror for employing a reporter who would accept an assignment to a legitimate activity such as the recent meeting of the Canadian Raelian Movement, then sleep through most of the gathering."

--Sandra Piché, letter to the editor

Black Rose Books brings Noam Chomsky to Concordia * Quebec needs more babies! * REAL Women under attack by feminists * City Councillor Sofokolis Raoulis, "the Napoleon of Park-Ex" * Anthony Griffin shot by police officer while trying to escape Stn. 15 parking lot on Nov. 11 * Gazette locks out 240 employees * Condomania * "The future of garbage in Montreal is recycling" * Suicides on the rise * New law puts porn on top shelf * The Great Flood

*music

Top Five, August 7

(CHOM's New Music Foundation)

1 Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing

2. The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me

3. The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

4. Chris Isaak - Chris Isaak

5. Depeche Mode - Strangelove (12")

White rap

"The Beastie Boys be/Adrock, Mike D and MCA/you can hear them scratchin' and rappin'/about Girls 'n' T&A... they've got a piece of vinyl/called Licensed to Ill/and you can be sure/that they're out to make a kill... beat box metal/sleazy sax on Brass Monkey/they might be white/but they sure are funky."

--Def Annie

Adios, CRSG

"Montreal has long been missing a format for the underground scene. With CKUT people are going to be exposed to a lot more. We've finally got a Montreal radio station that will promote Montreal."

--CKUT's Gary Shapiro on the station's city-wide launch

Hard Rock metaphors

"Ray Condo have come far, adding sophistication and generosity to their skillful sleaze. If you didn't like country before, Ray & Goners are like being raped and enjoying it."

--Jenny Ross

Paul Young and Luba at the Forum * Rhythme du monde fest at the Old Port * Jah Cuttah and the Determination Band * Psyche-fest at Black-Lite * Iggy Pop "a Forum opening act?--sad but true" * The Mongols lose Kim Shadow * Tom Waits at Outremont Cinema * SNFU * Chinese Backwards * Bubblegum Army * Brave New Waves * Ant Farm vs. Groovy Aardvark? * Jerry Jerry's Battle Hymn of the Apartment * Tchukon * The Hodads * Sons of the Desert's van breaks down... in the Nevada desert

*film

Stylish babes

"This movie is about parenting, and neither of us is a parent. But we're not really intimately acquainted with murder either, and we made a movie about killing people."

--Joel Coen on Raising Arizona in "Babyhoods," by Byron Rempel [incidentally, the film's title was not mentioned in the article]

*arts

Black, black, black

"Have you noticed how everyone turns out in black these days at vernissages? If black is the colour that absorbs all other colours of the spectrum, do the black threads and skins on your shoulders signify your assimilation of all variety of knowledge and experience?"

--Melanie Reinblatt

Mmmm... yams

"I'm coming to Montreal to stick some yams up my ass, Mr. Customs Man."

--Performance artist Karen Finley

Kodo drummers * Sandra Bernhard at Club Soda * Victorio Rossi's Backstreets * Rocky Horror Picture Show Live at Metropolis * Black Theatre Workshop wants a room of its own * Ted Dykstra is Jerry Lee Lewis in Fire * Sunday Nite Comedy at Station 10 * Isabelle Van Grimde and David Gossage's Courants * Tassy Teekman's seulement seul * anarcho-feminist zine BOA * Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion * Medium: Photocopy * Sa Geste series at Espace Go * Michel Tremblay's Real World

*fashion

"You kids with your black cigarette pants, smoking your prolonged adolescent souls away with your designer kafias [sic], if you don't like it here, why don't you go back to Bohemia?"

--Sam Smug, letter to the editor

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