Articles by Lorraine Carpenter

Saturday Night Live: The Best Of Gilda Radner

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2005

Playing brassy broads, debauched rockers, hyperactive kids, grandmotherly ninnies, nerdy noogie magnets and ingratiating infotainment perso...

The Wedding Present

The Cabaret, Montreal QC - April 27, 2005

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

After nearly a decade, one of the UK's most respected proto-Britpop bands made their way back to Montreal. The somewhat thin turnout was a...

High Dials

War of the Wakening Phantoms

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

In the wake of their epic pop opus, A New Devotion, Montreal’s the High Dials unveil a dramatic stylistic makeover, one with the potential...

The King Khan & BBQ Show / The Leather Uppers

El Salon, Montreal QC - February 5

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2005

Yowsa! Nudity, groping, broken glass, property damage, rampant drunkenness, rock'n'roll. Expectations were high for the return of the King...

24 Season Three

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

It's another day at the office for Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) and the team at L.A.'s Counter-Terrorism Unit, and if you thought you'd s...

Jordi Rosen / Crackpot

La Sala Rossa, Montreal QC - January 13

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

"The moon is in Pisces," said Jordi Rosen, singer, songwriter and accordionista by night, Tarot-card reader by day, forecasting a dreamy pe...

Assault on Precinct 13

John Carpenter

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

Just in time to hold up against the reportedly lame new remake, this DVD edition of John Carpenter's second feature, released in 1976, is w...

Blues Explosion / The Rogers Sisters

Cabaret La Tulipe, Montreal QC — November 10, 2004

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

It may not have been this trio's best performance in Montreal — I nominate their 1996 gig at the other Cabaret — but Blues Explosion is sti...