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Debbie Underwood paints the version of Montreal we want to believe in
Through acrylic paintings, Underwood preserves landmarks and streetscapes from a city she never really left.
Montreal Cocktail Fest returns with world-class bars and big ideas for 2025
The second edition of MCF brings global cocktail culture to Montreal’s best bars with seminars, pairing dinners, and no-barrier access to top-tier talent.
The brewmaster keeping Quebec’s oldest soda alive
Barry Fleischer is the spruce beer king of Pointe-Saint-Charles, and his kingdom is Paul Patates.
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The Bulletin: Afrobeats, spaghetti bingo, an ice cream workshop, and the printed arts [Issue #128]
The Bulletin is a collection of what's happened, what’s happening, and what’s to come in and around Montreal.
A complete guide to YATAI MTL 2025, Montreal’s Japanese street market
Four days of street food, sake, style, and a stylish Shiba Inu show along the Lachine Canal in Griffintown.
Montreal keeps cooking: 25 local restaurants make the 2025 Canada’s 100 Best list
Mon Lapin slips to #2, but the city’s dining scene is still unmatched.
Inside C2 Montréal 2025: What to expect, who to see, and how to make the most of It
A practical (and unofficial) guide to navigating three days of ideas, labs, and unexpected connections—this is how to do C2 like a local.
How Montreal's Super Boat People reframes Cambodian, Laotian & Vietnamese narratives
Not your typical heritage project: In kitchens, galleries, and community halls, a louder, richer story is emerging.
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A local's guide to the best things to do in Montreal [May 2025]
Soak up the first signs of spring and shake off what’s left of winter with the best things to do in Montreal right now.
This is Lightspeed, 20 years later: Montreal-made and in its transformation era
Lightspeed CEO Dax Dasilva tells the story of how a design-first POS system became a global commerce engine.
If this factory closes, a century of Montreal's Chinatown history goes with it
For over a century, Wing Noodles has fed Montreal with handmade noodles, fortune cookies, and quiet defiance—one of the last family-run factories still standing in Chinatown.
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The Bulletin: Museum bar service, a latte art throwdown, and Indian ice cream [Issue #127]
The Bulletin is a collection of what's happened, what’s happening, and what’s to come in and around Montreal.
Things to do in Montreal during May
From cider crawls and kimono parades to electro Sundays and neighbourhood street fests—Montreal in May doesn’t slow down.
50 years later, The Word Bookstore has outlived every prediction
Half a century later, The Word is a living argument for why places built on passion outlast everything.
The artist behind Montreal’s most therapeutic street art
Discussing 15 years of anonymity, personal pain, and guerrilla positivity with MAKENOIZE.
