Montreal’s Art Alley When Montreal Artist Kevin Ledo told us about this incredible hidden mural he’d been involved in, we couldn’t resist the urge to check it out for ourselves. The project was created by 42 Montreal artists who took over the back alley of an abandoned building near the Quartier des Spectacles. Unfortunately, the…
Read MoreNXNE: Why This Year Was Different
There’s so much more that goes into organizing a festival than booking a solid lineup. Finding venues, organizing schedules and acquiring sponsors are amongst the many issues that any festival organizer must deal with in order to make an event a success. When a given festival increases in popularity, however, a new infrastructural problem emerges: crowd control. This was…
Read MoreFrom End to End: A Photo Essay Across Montreal
The plan: to travel the entire island of Montreal, from end to end; I wanted to touch the water at the western edge and the eastern edge, all in one day.
Read MoreMural Festival: Creating in our Own Backyards
The Mural Festival is this weekend and twenty-one new murals will soon inhabit the walls of Montreal.
Read MoreThe Bizarre History of Foufounes Electriques: Paint Parties, Pies and Punk Rock
While our city is known for its cultural diversity, there are few venues in Montreal where you’ll find punks, goths, students and everything in between mixing quite as easily as they do at Foufounes Electriques.
Read MoreA Neighbourhood on the Rise: Your Guide to Montreal’s Mile-Ex
The identity and location of Mile-Ex, and certainly its name, is a complicated investigation. For some, Mile-Ex may simply be a trendier nickname for the neighbourhood of Marconi-Alexandra. Others may see it as the no-man’s land portmanteau of two bordering neighbourhoods. Not quite the residential melting-pot of Parc-Ex, yet not quite the hip Mile-End, Mile-Ex falls in-between…
Read MoreThe Case for Mirabel
James Cherry , the president of Aeroports de Montréal wants to demolish the main terminal of Mirabel International Airport, effectively putting the final nail in the coffin of our much beleaguered former Eastern Gateway. He justifies his position thusly: Mirabel is no longer a passenger airport, the terminal costs about $5 million per year to…
Read MoreA Debate of Olympic Proportions
Maybe the way to save the Olympic Stadium is with another Olympics.
Read MorePortraits of Montreal: How Three Local Photographers are Highlighting the Human Side of Our City
Seated comfortably around a long wooden table at Café Falco, the faces of three young men gazed eagerly at me as I sat down to ask them about their new project, Portraits of Montreal, which showcases both the similarities and differences between people from all over Montreal. This initiative was created to show the human…
Read MoreSatay Brothers: How Two Brothers Became Montreal’s Masters of Singaporean Street Cuisine
In Montreal’s Saint-Henri district, there exists a place that remains both famous and unknown, revered for their homemade Southeast Asian specialties, yet overlooked by their hawker stall in the Atwater Market food court in the summer or their small, unmarked winter location on Rue Saint-Jacques. Inspired by Singaporean and Malaysian street food classics such as…
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