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The Best of Montreal's Festivals, July 2024

Explore Montreal's top summer festivals of 2024 and construct your guide to make the most of peak summer in the city.

Rachel Cheng

Korean Film Festival Canada: Exploring sleep, dreams, and the body

A look inside the Montréal-based, non-profit and artist-driven Arts East West’s annual gathering for films, media arts, and more from Korean, Asian Canadian, pan-Asian and Asian diasporic artists.

J.P. Karwacki

Brainchild: A surfboard studio passion project rekindled in Montreal's Sud-Ouest

Where Mitch Martin gets back to one of the founding ideas behind Little Burgundy's September Surf Café.

Jenny Greenberg

Encore Books & Records: Getting lost in the stacks with owner Sean Madden

Listening in to the stories behind NDG’s friendly neighbourhood bookstore, a family-run literary and audiophilic icon of the city.

Yasmine Dalloul

The nouveau Levant: Redefining cuisines and cultures from Montreal's Arab diaspora

How Montreal's Levantine Arabs—Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian—are opening concepts that bridge adapting to a Western palate with staying true to who they are. 

J.P. Karwacki

Club St-Denis 257SE: A rare look inside one of Montreal's historic private clubs

Founded in 1874, Club St-Denis had long been the preferred meeting place for French-speaking business and political elite—now it's been reopened with an eye to new generations of membership.

Jenny Greenberg

PSC Tattoo: Talking shop with artist Dave Cummings

From the first days of slinging ink on Centre Street in ‘76 to Montreal’s oldest tattoo studio.

J.P. Karwacki

Montreal Bowling: Reviving a relic in the downtown Forum

Tapping into the pre-2020 nostalgia and cultural history of Montrealers, Montreal Bowling's a new(ish) project from local hospitality aficionados in the Forum downtown.

J.P. Karwacki

Lost Claws: One of Montreal's most fun-loving graffiti artists

Up on the rooftops of the Plateau, down in the bowels of crumbling industry, and jokes everywhere between: This is the playful, ephemeral oeuvre of Lost Claws.

Ivy Lerner-Frank

Talking queer food—and where to find it in Montreal

Montreal's a queer-friendly city. How does that influence its hospitality industry and the safe spaces of its restaurants, cafés and bars?

J.P. Karwacki

Locals changing the self-care game in Montreal

"New year, new you" mentalities can begin at any time—and these Montreal-based self-care creators can prove it with the work they're passionate about.

Rachel Cheng

Little Maghreb: The faces and places of Montreal's diasporic North African neighbourhood

Located at the end of the Blue Line, Montreal's Little Maghreb of Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension is rich with diasporic Arab and Amazigh communities.

Sasha Manoli

The best songs from Montreal that kept us company throughout 2023

These are the tracks that deserve a spotlight: The hidden treasures of Montreal's music scenes in 2023 that'll keep us moving into the new year.

Justine Smith

10 Montreal films you might have missed in 2023

The end of 2023's upon us, and as the cinema mills of the world will keep churning, we wanted to look back on the year's best films with a strong Montreal connection.

J.P. Karwacki

Pulp Books: Montreal’s new English bookstore, and the passion that built a neighbourhood spot

What drove two Montrealers to build a 'third place' for a neighbourhood to while away hours with books—and why they want it that way.

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