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    The World Cycling Championships Come With an 11-Day Party on Saint-Denis
    AnnaClare Sung

    The World Cycling Championships Come With an 11-Day Party on Saint-Denis

    For 11 days from September 17 to 27, the street’s cafés, bars, and bike shops are giving Montrealers a reason to follow more than the races.

    The World’s Most Liveable Cities Know Who They Are. Does Montreal?
    Fede Sanchez

    The World’s Most Liveable Cities Know Who They Are. Does Montreal?

    Montreal holds its own against the world’s most liveable cities. Its real weakness is harder to measure.

    Montreal Deserves a Feast Without a Velvet Rope
    Daniel Braz

    Montreal Deserves a Feast Without a Velvet Rope

    A public lottery, a patron auction and no head table could create a civic ritual that finally lives up to the city's egalitarian self-image.

    Summer’s Winding Down, but Piazza di Mano Is Just Getting Started
    AnnaClare Sung

    Summer’s Winding Down, but Piazza Di Mano Is Just Getting Started

    A once-vacant lot in Griffintown has become a neighbourhood gathering spot. The people behind it hope this summer is only the beginning.

    Oasis’s Reunion Film Makes the Obsession Easy to Understand
    Gianni Fiasche

    Oasis’s Reunion Film Makes the Obsession Easy to Understand

    The Gallagher brothers are back on stage, but the most revealing moments in ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ happen away from them.

    Why Are Montreal Creatives Looking Beyond the City Core?
    Kristina Stamkopoulos

    Why Are Montreal Creatives Looking Beyond the City Core?

    Based in the West Island, Dépanneur Studios offers one model for sustaining creative work beyond Montreal’s usual cultural corridors.

    Marché Floh’s New Homeware Store Turns a Vintage Destination Into a Lifestyle Brand
    AnnaClare Sung

    Marché Floh’s New Homeware Store Turns a Vintage Destination Into a Lifestyle Brand

    After winning over a generation that likes its clothes with a past, the Montreal vintage mainstay is making itself at home.

    Format MTL Marks a Resurgence in Montreal’s Design Scene
    AnnaClare Sung

    Format MTL Marks a Resurgence in Montreal’s Design Scene

    After years of crossing paths at trade shows elsewhere, a new generation of local designers have built the decentralized gathering it couldn’t find at home.

    The Bulletin: The (Best) Worst Movie Ever Made, Racing Around the Mountain, Burlesque Birthdays, and Digital Pollution [Issue #198]
    The Main

    The Bulletin: The (Best) Worst Movie Ever Made, Racing Around the Mountain, Burlesque Birthdays, and Digital Pollution [Issue #198]

    The Bulletin is a collection of what's happened, what’s happening, and what’s to come in and around Montreal.

    Mandy Benoualid Wants You to Plan Your Death
    AnnaClare Sung

    Mandy Benoualid Wants You to Plan Your Death

    The founder of Keeper and TalkDeath turned her grief into a memorial platform and movement that’s helping people remember, mourn, and talk about dying.

    Dust, Blood, and Gravel: A Wild Ride Through L’Enfer des Patriotes
    Jean Bourbeau @ URBANIA

    Dust, Blood, and Gravel: A Wild Ride Through L’Enfer des Patriotes

    Inside the race director’s car for 100 kilometres of Quebec’s most unforgiving cycling.

    Le Grand Comité Is a Neighbourhood Bistro Upstairs (With a Secret Society Down Below)
    J.P. Karwacki

    Le Grand Comité Is a Neighbourhood Bistro Upstairs (With a Secret Society Down Below)

    Above, Rémi Lemieux is betting downtown can sustain a neighbourhood haunt; below, he is creating an intimate testing ground for his most personal cooking.

    HENI Had the Accolades. Frango’s Wants the Crowd.
    J.P. Karwacki

    HENI Had the Accolades. Frango’s Wants the Crowd.

    With Portuguese chicken, $16 cocktails and a room redesigned from the door in, the Little Burgundy team is betting that approachability matters as much as acclaim.

    There Will Only Ever Be One Caffè Italia
    Christopher DeWolf

    There Will Only Ever Be One Caffè Italia

    For 70 years, Caffè Italia has been a family inheritance, an immigrant gathering place, and a witness to a city's transformation.

    How Shoemaking Traditions Live On at Cordonnerie Carinthia
    Kaitlyn DiBartolo

    How Shoemaking Traditions Live On at Cordonnerie Carinthia

    Dominique Bergeron learned the trade beside his future father-in-law. Now he’s passing it on as Quebec’s cobblers disappear.

    Ryan Reynolds Is on Autopilot in Mayday, but Kenneth Branagh Soars
    Gianni Fiasche

    Ryan Reynolds Is on Autopilot in Mayday, but Kenneth Branagh Soars

    Apple TV’s Cold War action comedy finds unexpected warmth, one enormous laugh and a compelling reason it belonged in theatres.

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