Madeline Coleman

Beyond the closet

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:28:27 -0500

Gay musicians need to ‘grow some fucking balls,’ says Ezra Axelrod

These queers are getting awfully ostentatious. They’re in the streets, in movies and in literature. Boys are holding hands with other boys on cable TV while lady-lovin’...

Building a buzz

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:22:30 -0500

Plywood and prints at grad student art show The Hive

The only Hive Concordians may be familiar with is the boozy kind, thanks to Loyola’s campus bar. The watering hole’s moniker is a tribute to Concordia’s varsity athletes....

Community plagued by last-minute controversy

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:21:58 -0500

Breaking rules ‘not the worst thing in the world’: presidential candidate

Only a few hours before the last day of campaigning came to a close, Michael Xenakis was faced with multiple accusations of dirty campaign tactics. The presidential...

No experience necessary

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:26:04 -0500

Not just for esthetes: the International Festival of Films on Art dishes up art docs both mainstream and obscure

There was a time when appreciating films about art required detective skills rather than a sense of esthetics—at least if you lived in Montreal. When the International...

Community currency

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:11:07 -0500

Slate proposes money to boost student-run services

Forget Chartwells, the Community slate running in this month’s Concordia Student Union general election thinks that if students are going to spend money on campus, they...

Community slate: outnumbered and outresourced

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:14:09 -0600

Presidential hopeful comments from behind the throng

A knot of purple T-shirts and bouncing wigs clamour around the base of the escalators in Concordia’s Hall building, the backs of their shirts stuffed with pre-taped...

Fêting esthetics

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:38:42 -0600

Concordia’s Art Matters festival turns 10, brings the party

Art Matters is awfully precocious for a 10-year-old. This year’s incarnation of the art festival brings the work of almost 200 artists into professional galleries all over...

Ready for his close-up

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:38:13 -0600

Owen Pallett, aka Final Fantasy, ‘opens his bathrobe’ with new album

Owen Pallett is stretching, yawning and asking his boyfriend for an order of buttermilk pancakes. “Sorry,” he says, turning his attention away from room service and...

Seeing sounds

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:27:18 -0600

Racializing alternative and hip-hop music

Martin Cesar never questioned whether he was listening to the right kind of music. As a kid who never quite fit in, he fell in love with the rock of bands like Sonic...

editorial

TristanLaPointe — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:29:53 -0600

Conservatives denying the simple truth

Turns out abortion has nothing to do with women’s health—or so some have argued this past week. When Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff dared to suggest the two might be...