Another POP Montreal festival has come and gone, and this year’s was as good as any. Taking over venues and taverns around town from last Wednesday to Sunday, the festival presented over 600 artists in just five days, making for one crazy schedule. While the talent at this year’s edition was endless, here are some…
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Spike Lee Speaks Out During Montreal International Black Film Festival
Even when ostensibly promoting his art, Spike Lee never strays too far away from his core political message.
Read More10 Awesome Photos from Ty Segall at POP Montreal
The award for rowdiest crowd at POP Montreal this year definitely goes to Ty Segall.
Read MoreA Look Inside The Unicorns’ Only Reunion Show in Canada
Montreal’s iconic indie pop-rock band The Unicorns finally gave their fans the blast from the past they’d been waiting for at their POP Montreal show. Closing out this year’s festival at Métropolis on Sunday night, you’d never know from the way they played that the trio only recently reunited, let alone spent the past ten…
Read More17 Awesome Photos of Montreal’s Art Alley
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 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 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…
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