I had a strange experience last night. I felt like I was watching a show for kids, and yet there were no kids in the room. In retrospect, this disjunction might be one of the most fascinating aspects of construct, a dance-theatre show choreographed by Australian Tanja Liedtke, a young artist who passed away two [...]
Recently, I was telling someone about Reema Singh, the delightful owner of Cocoa Locale, a bakery in Mile-End. As I was going on and on about her, my interlocutor stopped me and told me that it sounded just like Maggie Gyllenhaal’s character’s story in the movie Stranger Than Fiction. So maybe I got my stories [...]