Tag Archive for the term: pop and policy

According to cleanliness laws in the Plateau Montreal, it is illegal to stick, staple or nail anything to public property. Like the other boroughs that address postering, the Plateau lumps “affichage sauvage” together with graffiti and tagging. This betrays the city’s complete failure to grasp the role of postering, and to address and regulate it in a relevant way.

Still collecting thoughts Post Pop. It was indeed a whirlwind of a festival that took the city by storm, almost on par with the Jazz Fest’s cyclonic power. The Gazette featured buildup for days. Young folk were abuzz with show-goin’ and program checkin’. This here blog got some serious bloggin’ love [...]

More from POp MOntreal 2007, on the POP and POlicy Conference.
Some people, when I’ve mentioned we’ve been covering this, have been surprised to hear there’s a POP-related conference going on. Others were surprised to find out that all the panels on the last day would be free, because maaaybe they wouldn’t have paid 50$ [...]

POp Montreal 2007 - BUck 65.
Before getting Patti Smith pissed at me (fuck fuck fuck, I love her. Oh well.) I saw Buck and Scratch Bastid on a panel with Owen Chapman who is an associate Prof in the same department where I did my masters at Concordia, and a Prof Stern from [...]

Tonight Alanah and I spotted what may have been the most ironic of all Ironic Mustaches I have ever seen. It was spotted just one hour ago at a Pop Montreal show, at one of my favoritist of favorite Montreal venues, Casa del Popolo.
Before I begin blogging on my Fabulous Day of Pop [...]

Oct 4, Coffee and Tea provided in the clean glass-bright lobby of the new McGill music building, then straight into the cold but lovely “classroom” ie; performance space.. hmm? (Me and Dom from Diary of a Lost Circus were dreaming). The goal of this POP and POlicy panel was to consider how different fields [...]