TABLE OF CONTENTS: February 16, 2012 – February 22, 2012 Vol. 27 No. 35

COVER

• Director Agnieszka Holland and Holocaust survivor Krystyna Chiger talk about the cinematic challenges and historical hard truths of making the Oscar-nominated In Darkness

NEWS

• THE FRONT: Students begin the strike—Blocking commerce—CKUT’s decade on the street—Blacks and science
• ANGEL & INSECT
• A Mirror reporter investigates the murky world of animal rescues.
• DAMN RIGHT: Blaming the victim in uniform
• MAN BITES DOG: Fugitive probably dislikes Facebook now
• NETWORTHY: Beyond the obvious at lookatthisfuckingperson.com and the richest presidential candidates ever
• ROSEN

MUSIC

• Sharon Van Etten overcomes anxiety and battles the beauty myth
• Phife Dawg abandoned by his Tribe at Sundance
• Full Crate falls back on classical training
• Boston’s Morne weather sludge and crust
• MUSIC REVIEWS
• THE LOAD-DOWN: Lana vs. Leonard, Obama on Spotify
• PUNKUSRAUCOUS REX: Montreal’s best live rock ’n’ roll band & more
• BLOCK-CLOCKER: Doomtree, Frobruary, Ruckus & Boogat
• PARTY FAVOURS: Bowling alley launch + gay parties aplenty
• RANT LINE™

FILM

• The Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois celebrates a year of local film
• This Means War? More like this means bore!
• Madonna’s W.E. lives up to its bad reputation
• Hayao Miyazaki’s Ghilbi Studio scores again with The Secret World of Arriety
• MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: Inside Lara Roxx
• VIDIOT’S BOX: Tiny Furniture and The Rum Diary

PRESS START

• Ghost hunting isn’t just for kiddies with new game Haunt

ARTS

• ARTSWEEK: Matt Forsythe launches Jinchalo the follow-up to his ’08 graphic novel Ojingogo, dancers explore moving and migration in Straight Right ou l’art d’être Nulle part Ailleurs, Anita Schoepp asked fellow artists to personify their sexuality in It Started With a Simple Question and Grown-up Story Time Montreal makes its debut
• SideMart Theatrical Grocery and the Segal fall shy of the mark with John Mighton’s Scientific Americans

RESTO

• Pastaga vin natures et restaurant is set to liven up the Petite Patrie

Columns

• PEOPLE: Job counsellor Rosemary Nolan.
• RIFF RAFF: Let us now praise tall, talented Asian-American athletes.
• SASHA: Sexless and suffering.

 

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