What do Amy Winehouse, William Golding and Sol LeWitt have in common? They’re all coming (in filmic form, at least) to Montreal’s FIFA!

Demand re-creates scenes, buildings and interiors depicted in the media from cardboard and paper using a 1:1 scale, photographs them and/or films them, and then destroys each sculpted work after it is satisfactorily documented.

Childhood fantasy time: to be put in front of a candy counter full of chocolate bars, licorice whips and jujubes and be told, by some benevolent relative or Daddy Warbucks-type, “have at it, grab whatever you want—go nuts.” Am I right? As a little one, I couldn’t think of anything better, save for being told the same thing, but in a toy store.

Byrne deftly delineates the way music is affected by place, time, finance, interpersonal relationships and technology. He then goes on to explain how each factor works to alter the way we experience songs, and closes the circle by showing how listeners impact both musical progress and the musicians themselves.

Whether you are looking for a stripped-down set of wooden drawers, crisp bed linens or a bear in a teacup (just trust us on this one), VdeV is the store to beat.

Hauntings is a series of short art-house films shown on an exceptionally unique configuration of 11 screens. Maddin invokes the spirits of long dead directors in fevered re-imaginings of their abandoned work.

Sure, most people have heard of the action at the W Hotel, gotten the 411 on Suite 701, or have ditched Koko to wobble down to XO, but what about some of the more seasoned, less-hip-with-the-kids hotel bars located on our fair island?

In these modern, jaded times, it is quite an accomplishment for a formal gallery exhibit to provoke such a deep, lasting sense of terror and disgust.

Feeling the constraints of the small screen, Oliver will be taking to the boards at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival to host the roast of a nation. NIGHTLIFE recently caught up with the British ex-pat to ask a few pertinent (and not so pertinent) questions.