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| Music
on the Main |
On any given night, the streets, bars, and spacious lofts that line
Montreal's historic St. Laurent Blvd. are hopping with people eager
to soak up the city's explosive nightlife. Hoards of young hipsters,
sporting the punk-inspired uniform of their generation, are out in full
force to smoke, drink, and dance the night away to the tunes of local
musical acts. Montreal's underground and independent ("indie") music scene
has been thriving for decades, offering a welcomed alternative to the
mainstream trends of the day. In a city brimming with artists and exploding
with a collective determination to live by the beat of their own drum, indie
bands have come to reflect the stick-it-to-the-man attitude of their audience.
Montrealers play music for the love of it and will continue to do so without
any real promise of money or fame.
The fact that in the past few years Montreal indie bands like The Arcade Fire,
The Stills, The Dears, and many others have graced the pages of the New York
Times, Spin, Rolling Stone and Time, seems baffling. After decades of going
it alone and pursuing their artistic dreams despite the lack of an established
music industry, Montreal bands are now attracting an international fan base
and getting more exposure in mainstream media than anyone could have imagined.
The question on everyone's mind is: Why Montreal and why now? Music on the
Main explores how a generation of young rock musicians has learned to express
itself independently in an industry all too often reduced to formulas.
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| The Making of a Champion |
Every year, thousands of young athletes from around the world move to
the sunny state of Florida, leaving behind the life they've know to
chase an uncertain dream: to rise to the top of the junior tennis podium.
For many of the families of these tennis prodigies, the potential pay-offs
far outweigh the risks of early burnout, prolonged poverty, and childhood
alienation. In Making of a Champion, we enter the cutthroat,
über-competitive, multi-million-dollar world of junior tennis.
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