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Feature Stories

The Winter of Art's Discontent
During a recession, governments both federal and municipal are on the hunt for places to cut costs and the arts seem to be an easy target. Laura Trethewey followed the carnage of arts funding cuts across the country to see the effect on local artists and, ultimately, our culture.

Grease Lightening
Poet Billeh Nickerson's latest offering is fresh from the deep fryer and teeming with substance

Flatmancrooked
The US micropress with mega-ideas

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Excerpts
from Marta Chudolinska, Michael Deforge, Jen Y.

Fiction
by J Jack Unrau, Dave Proctor

61 reviews

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Artist in Residence

Ryan Ringer
Ryan Ringer is a multidisciplinary artist and social convener. He enjoys wearing fake moustaches, conducting immersive fictions, building funny Flintstone cars out of cardboard and leading busloads of artists into the cultural chaos of New York City and other urban destinations. Ringer is perhaps best known as director and chief curator of Methinks, a social art arena founded in 2003, and Project 165, a young artist-run space in Toronto's Kensington Market. The two co-exist to support the social, professional and creative development of emerging artists (aka cultural workers); to challenge the ways in which culture is made, perceived, supported and consumed; and to make radical advancements at the confluence of art, politics, play and daily life. Read more.

Random Review

Les Mont-Royals
Les Mont-Royals is a series of one-page comics revolving around the iconic cross perched on Montreal's Mont Royal. The zine is a strange, frequently violent affair, populated by stick-figure men and minimalist drawings. In one comic, a man climbs onto the cross only to get crushed by an incoming passenger jet. In another, a giant is fellated by the cross. Others feature the cross being converted into the McDonald's golden arches, a man falling from above and becoming impaled on it, as well as a ... Read more.

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