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.
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A 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…
Read MoreThe Darling Foundry: Once Heart of Industry Now Home to Artists
In Griffintown, there lies a very unique and interesting space for contemporary art. Simply put, the Darling Foundry should be on every art amateur’s radar.
Read MoreVancouver Meets Montreal: Shad @ The Corona Theatre
The last time I went to see Shad, he performed for a packed house. This time around, the attending bodies hardly made a dent in the venue’s capacity. While this could be attributed to the fact that both openers– Hannah Georgas and We Are The City– are definitely not hip-hop acts, it nonetheless made for…
Read MoreUp Close and Personal with Jonah Leslie, Artistic Director and Owner of HÉRITAGE
We recently sat down with Jonah Leslie, owner and artistic director of Héritage/Inheritance Shoppe, and discussed growing up in the Plateau, romantic escapades in Brazil, surrealist window displays, tree-climbing, and curating in Bangkok.
Read MoreHistory Lesson: Expo 67
On April 28 2012, the city of Montreal celebrated the 45th anniversary of a landmark event that forever changed its history. This monumental event not only placed the city on a global centre stage, but was also the catalyst for Montreal’s development into one of the most cosmopolitan and distinct cities in the world. This…
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