Leila Amiri

Nothing to forget

Bruno — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:22:53 -0500

VAV Gallery’s Forecast Forget features three Concordia students to keep your eyes on

They say two is company and three’s a crowd, but when it comes to the works of one Concordia threesome, crowded isn’t so bad. “It was actually professor Eliza...

JBM’s captivated crowd

Bruno — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:50:04 -0600

A first-person perspective on a Montrealer’s debut album launch

Chilling out by the bar, eating and grabbing a beer. All very cliché, but the lights get low; my back is turned away from the stage as I eat a chorizo. I grab my beer and turn...

Follow the yellow bouncing ball…

Bruno — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:36:51 -0600

Carpenter’s Words the Dog Knows

Take a walk around the block of this insightful and adventurously poised book based on a dog and his owners. Words the Dog Knows is more than just a tale of a dog and his...

Burn before reading

Bruno — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:27:07 -0600

How one of the greatest novels never written is finally finding a publisher

Normally it wouldn’t be a problem getting one of Vladimir Nabokov's works published. But it has been a tumultuous vas et viens for his one and only child, Dmitri Nabokov....

A desire close to home

Bruno — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Montreal-based artists experimentally express “the ‘other’ within”

Con U is finally developing a campus between university-stamped buildings and the mild amusements of downtown Montreal. In a school where diversity is a main theme,...

Once... upon a time

Bruno — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

An interview with Toronto’s Rebecca Rosenblum

Open a book and what you usually get are a couple hundred pages of someone else’s life, and if it’s well-written, you’re left wanting to see more. Rebecca Rosenblum’s...

Full Interview with Rebecca Rosenblum

Bruno — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Web exclusive

The Link: Your stories are small excerpts of someone’s life. Very detailed, the conversations so intimate, do you take from your life, from those around you or is it...

My skirt for your shirt

Bruno — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

It was a case of ‘out with the old and in with the new’ at the second annual Swaparama shopping extravaganza. The charity event saw Montrealers trade softly used...