Antonio Najarro: Sin miedo a las fusiones.

Posted by - August 14, 2009

El teatro Nuevo Mundo de Montreal estaba a reventar, el público entero esperaba con impaciencia uno de los espectáculos más esperados en el Festival de Jazz de Montreal, único en la categoría de danza. Finalmente el telón se abrió tímidamente y una voz melodiosa de una mujer comenzó a recitar versos de amor en español

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Super trio: niños, obesidad y nutrición

Posted by - August 14, 2009

Sin lugar a dudas la obesidad sigue siendo un tema obligado en Canadá, recuerdo que en el 2006 el Gobierno de Quebec creó un plan de acción de $ 400 millones de dólares para educar a los quebequenses sobre la importancia de mantenerse activos y alimentarse bien, pero en realidad no es tan fácil iniciar

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Silent Disco in Montreal

Posted by - July 29, 2009

After presenting in Tokyo, London, Milan and Amsterdam, Silent Disco came to Canada to join the 27th edition of the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival (Festival juste pour rire) a great event created by Gilbert Rozon in 1983. Rozon was inspired with the idea of bringing together in one place a bunch of people who

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What’s up Montreal (V)

Posted by - July 13, 2009

THE BEST VOICE One of my great discoveries at Montreal Jazz Festival was Somi. I went to see her at the Astral Theatre and I was very impressed by her performance. She has a strong, rich, well- educated voice, with great depth of expression! Somi is an American singer & songwriter of Rwandan and Ugandan

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What’s up Montreal (VI)

Posted by - July 13, 2009

ALL FOR KIDS! Once again the Montreal’s Jazz Festival brought great activities for kids at Place Desjardins. There were lots of kid-friendly activities for their parents too, all free. What a wonderful way to introduce jazz as something to do together with your family. Besides that, magazines were full of discounts and nice jazz souvenirs

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Well done Spectra!

Posted by - July 13, 2009

30th anniversary edition: A musical dream… come true. Alain Simard founder of the Montreal Jazz Festival has always the time to read all the reports about this wonderful event. In fact he is everywhere during the festival, reading the journalist’s articles, presenting the artists, and encouraging his team. Undeniably this 30th anniversary was an incredible

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What’s up Montreal (IV) Inside the Jazz Festival

Posted by - July 8, 2009

You Rock! Jeff Beck, one of the world’s best guitar players, showed up in the press conference to receive his prize, the tribute of Montreal Guitar Room. He answered different questions from the journalists, and what I liked the most, was his humbleness to recognize that he had also made mistakes when he recorded songs.

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MÉNAGE à trois: Gays, Inmigración e Integración

Posted by - April 27, 2009

Nuestro encuentro se llevó a cabo tal como lo planeamos, en el muy “trendy” Bistro/ Bar llamado Kilo, en pleno corazón del barrio Gay de Montreal. Allí, en una mesa estratégicamente ubicada hacia la calle, me esperaban Daniel Sabourin, Laurier Beaudoin y Jaime Serrano, tomándose unas cervecitas. Ellos decidieron hablar conmigo sobre la situación de

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Visiting Colombia

Posted by - February 9, 2009

A few days ago I read in the newspaper Le Devoir the Lio Kiefer’s chronicle about Colombia, “Un morcellement d’identités régionales”, and I have to confess that I am very disappointed with such a depressing description of our main tourists attractions. It seems to me that Mister Kiefer’s lack of information on Colombia turned into

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Montreal Triple X

Posted by - February 8, 2009

Existen muchas maneras de celebrar el día de San Valentín, particularmente me encantan los regalos, las sorpresas, las cenas íntimas, flores, chocolates o libros, pero es obvio que no todo el mundo festeja de la misma manera, para la muestra tenemos el tradicional Salón del Amor y la Seducción que siempre abre sus puertas en

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