Wanda Waterman is a poet, spoken word artist, blogger, cultural journalist, and digital nomad. She’s been writing regularly for The Voice Magazine since 2004, not long after she began studying psychology at Athabasca. Her poetry has been published in Descant, The Talking Leaves, Chizine, Our Times, The Best of Tigertail, and Pottersfield Portfolio and her articles in Design is Political, Rawckus Magazine, Coastal Life, The New Internationalist, This Magazine, and in her blog, The Mindful Bard. She grew up in Nova Scotia, but after having lived in New Hampshire and North Africa she’s now settled in Montreal.
?There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does… Read more »
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As a child, Canadian singer-songwriter Alysha Brillinger enjoyed a creative freedom that encouraged a prodigious musical talent. With two parents who loved music and three sisters who could be recruited as singers and dancers in living room productions, Alysha could expand on that talent: by the age of eight she was arranging three-part harmonies and… Read more »
Film: Incendies (Sony Pictures Classics 2011) Director: Denis Villeneuve Source: Based on the play by Wajdi Mouawad Cast: Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard I Have Nothing to Say You simply have to see this film; there’s no way to adequately communicate its splendour to you. But while I have you here, I… Read more »
Kristen is a Montreal-based country/soul singer-songwriter. While living in New York City she interned at the Brill Building, and from there went on to sing on tracks mixed by Phil Ramone, work with Steely Dan’s live sound engineer, and perform at Rockwood Music Hall and the Bitter End. She recently finished the Tower of Song Tour… Read more »
Atman Way (Triangle (2011) and One Plus One (2010)) is half of the experimental recording duo The Two; he provides guitar chord accompaniment to melodic improvisations, and occasionally sings. He met the other half of The Two, Mark M (see Voice interview here), in a coffee shop in Racine, Wisconsin in 1993. Long before The… Read more »
Film: Potiche (2011) Director: François Ozon Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard, Jérémie Renier, Judith Godrèche ?Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men?bring them softness, teach them how to cry.? Joan Baez From Earth Mother to Political Saviour, 70s-Style There… Read more »
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Film: Rubber (Realitism Films 2010) Writer/Director: Quentin Dupieux Cast: Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser, Roxane Mesquida, Ethan Cohn, Charley Koontz Genre: Drama We Go ?Round and ?Round and ?Round in the Tire Game Robert the abandoned tire awakens to his own unique reality: he’s alone in a gravelly desert somewhere in the American southwest…. Read more »
Music: Triangle (2011), One Plus One (2010) Book: Observations and Thinkings: A Collection of Mark M’s Musings (2001) ?And God (ironically) sed, ?I am going to send to hell all those people who were stupid enough to think I was going to send (other) people to hell.? Fred 2:23? Mark M, in Observations and Thinkings… Read more »