Sisters Kate and Anna McGarrigle have been playing music together since their first album was released in 1976. (Supplied)
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Family blends voices
For Kate and Anna McGarrigle music constitutes more a lifetime than a lifestyle. The sisters have been playing and making their original, bilingual folk-rock music ever since they began their band together in Montreal during the early 1970s.
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D’urbervillin’
A sweet indie release does not a full-time rock star make. Though they’re about to embark on their first cross-Canada tour with their newly released album We Are The Hunters on Out Of This Spark Records, the D’Urbervilles boys are keeping their day jobs for now, anyway.
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What’s so funny?
Who: Jim Robinson, ArtSci ’08. Medium: Comedy. Where you’ve seen him: Time To Laugh’s Comedian Idol contest, Queen’s Players, Queen’s Varsity Improv, Eng Week’s Gong Show at Alfie’s.
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Queen’s grads chronicle birth of an indie film
For the filmmakers behind The Death of Indie Rock, life imitates art. Making the film, which tells the story of a small-town rock band looking to make it big, has been a three-year long lesson in the trials of independent movie-making for the group of Queen’s graduates who wrote, directed, produced and acted in the film.
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Plastic People players pack a satirical punch
The Plastic People Theatre Company is determined to go out with a bang—or two. Punchline, the latest and last of the theatre company’s performances, pulls out all the stops, taking Plastic People’s traditional absurdism, social commentary and unapologetic vulgarity to new heights. The play focuses on the exploits of two news anchors, each determined to fill the lone spot available at the news desk of NTV: National News Television.
