Mireille Tarcha

Breaking the fourth wall

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:10:22 -0500

Web comic creator opens up shop in Pointe-Claire

Breaking the fourth wall between character and audience member can be an annoying and intrusive literary device when not executed correctly. But one comic writer is genuinely...

Under a Chinese sky

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:19:19 -0500

Montrealers flock to the botanical garden for oriental flavours

Marking the 400th anniversary of the telescope, the Magic of Lanterns festival at the Montreal Botanical Garden looked to ancient Chinese astronomy for inspiration. The...

13 rubber boats for an entire nation

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:48:51 -0500

Montreal’s Filipino community bands together to help their typhoon-struck relatives

The Filipino community in Montreal could only wait and worry as typhoon Ketsana made landfall on Sept. 26. The news was grim; Manila was hit by the heaviest rains in its modern...

No battlefield, no enemies, just war

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:11:12 -0500

The screening of The Fourth World War on Sept. 23 depicts the popular resistance to globalization that has emerged in the years following the Cold War. The...