Stories for local explorers
“La Bise” is a greeting used around the world that has been making Anglophones feel awkward for centuries. Art by Marco Paradiso Knowing how to do the French double-kiss is a first step to really getting to know Montreal. We want to help you feel a little less awkward. Here’s what you need to know:
Read More‘m biking along in the early morning, riding down Sherbrooke for just one block. Suddenly, a taxi door flies open in front of me and now I’m lying on the pavement: bike on top of me, left arm red and bruised, helmet visor broken off and lying in the street. I was doored. It didn’t hurt too badly—no…
Read More’Tis the season for wool, and La Bobineuse‘s got plenty of it. With their wealth of quality yarns and other knitting essentials, they’ve been a second home to Montreal’s knitting community since 1958. Considering Montrealers would be miserable without their knit-wear around this time of year, we spoke with La Bobineuse’s Flavie Mageau-Taylor about the products…
Read MoreOur beloved Montreal Canadiens begin their 105th season of play this Wednesday so we took a look at what Habs fans can expect this coming season. Hopefully PK Subban’s farts will help this year. Anyway, here’s our Montreal Canadiens season preview: The Year That Was: Last season, very few hockey journalists/prognosticators had the Canadiens reaching the NHL playoffs.…
Read MoreWhether you’re comfortable with it or not, you’re living in an increasingly digital world: one where businesses are no longer brick and mortar, where customer-care lines frequently refer you to their companies’ websites (through automated messages, of course). In-person services are a novelty and, for better or worse, phone books are all but extinct. This…
Read MoreEven when ostensibly promoting his art, Spike Lee never strays too far away from his core political message.
Read MoreMontreal’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 MoreThere’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 MoreThe 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 MoreThe Mural Festival is this weekend and twenty-one new murals will soon inhabit the walls of Montreal.
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