TABLE OF CONTENTS: February 23, 2012 – February 29, 2012 Vol. 27 No. 36

COVER

The Mirror’s picks and tips for the 9th edition of Nuit Blanche.

On the cover, “Alice in Wonderland, 30th Street, NYC” by Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano

NEWS

• THE FRONT: Students and their pickets—Syrian solidarity—Radical Queers talk, party—Bandy comes to Quebec.
• ANGEL & INSECT
• Where are Montreal’s hybrid taxis?
• The Mirror’s guide to Nuit Blanche
• Turning potholes into art
• DAMN RIGHT: London’s killer Olympic road rules
• MAN BITES DOG: Urine for a shocker
• NETWORTHY: Fatal food and the Gen Why Media Project
• ROSEN

MUSIC

• Finland’s Children of Bodom on 15 years of masterful metal
• Ariane Moffatt gets her English on on Ma
• The Robert Glasper Experiment takes jazz into the 21st century
• Blockhead makes a case for instrumental hip hop
• MUSIC REVIEWS
• THE LOAD-DOWN: CBC digital, Lou Barlow analog
• PUNKUSRAUCOUS REX: New LPs by le Chelsea Beat & To the Cliffs
• BLOCK-CLOCKER: Hustle your bustle
• PARTY FAVOURS: Faggity Ass Biebs, Tran5formateur, Bass Drive
• RANT LINE™

FILM

• Talking hockey, comedy, Canada and Quebec with Goon director Michael Dowse, star/co-writer Jay Baruchel and producer André Rouleau
• Asghar Farhadi on his Oscar-nominated drama A Separation
• Woody Harrelson shines as a rotten cop in Rampart
• Weekly round-up: The Flowers of War and Over My Dead Body
• MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: Hoshi Neko
• VIDIOT’S BOX: Prosecutor and Martha Marcy May Marlene

PRESS START

• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is but a vacation kingdom from your real fantasy addiction

ARTS

• The next generation of actors bring the goods to the stage with Three Sixty and The History of the Devil

RESTO

• Copious, delicious Greek food is served at NDG’s unpretentious Estiatorio Yia Sou

Columns

• PEOPLE: Sex therapist Irv Binik.
• RIFF RAFF: Race, language and ESPN.
• SASHA: Is the Keeper cup a keeper?

 

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