Vicky Clerici at Montreal Comic Con 2013 Vicky Clerici, the owner of special effects makeup and props company Macabro Productions, is cleaning her brushes and ...

A portrait of Mary Shelley. Dear David Gilmour,Unlike others who have reacted with outrage to your comments about your preferred reading and teaching material—books by ...

If you’re a frequent reader of Maisonneuve's Music Room reviews column, you already know about Mozart's Sister and Majical Cloudz and Miracle Fortress and Braids ...

My mother is the reason I began to wear the hijab. She is the strongest woman I know; intelligent, she stressed the importance of education, ...

A protestor at the 2011 Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in Zuccotti Park. Photo by David Shankbone. Forbes just put out its annual list of the ...

Statue of Don Juan in the square of Refinadores in Seville.  Apparently there's a movie called "Don Jon" coming out. Based on the trailer, it ...

 Seamus Heaney in 1970. Photograph by Simon Garbutt.Six years ago, precisely a week after I moved to Montreal to go to school, my father called ...

Though it’s usually the first thing people read, the display copy on a magazine story often contains the last words written. These titles and descriptors ...

Covered in plants and delicate white birdcages, the Bernard Street storefront of Tamey Lau’s flower shop was a much-loved and often-photographed feature of Montreal’s Mile ...

In this recent anthology, Mark Callanan and James Langer gather together the work of eleven of the province’s most recognized poets. Below, Sarah Neville and ...

Rob Ford with a puppet. Photograph by Shaun Merritt.For many downtowners, streaming Doug Ford’s Global News interview on their laptops, the thin gold chain around ...

The 2012 Quebec student strike. Photograph by David Vilder. The right to demonstrate means little to me. As the recent mass arrests under the controversial ...

When the stretch of Ste. Catherine Street in Montreal’s Gay Village was pedestrianized for two and a half months in the summer of 2008, it ...

Spoiler alert: Unlike much of what I write about on this blog, video games do benefit from not knowing certain details. That said, it’s impossible ...

There are not many writers who earned their way into the Academy of American Arts and Letters on the strength of salty volumes like The ...

It says 4:09:44 on the digital clock hanging above the finish line. That’s a good time for a marathon. It’s a world-class time if you’re ...

When I was growing up in the nineties, no one on my favourite shows ever looked like me. Clarissa may have explained it all, but ...

A baggage yak, from T.E. Gordon's 1876 book Roof of the World. I used to spend entire days on Greyhound buses, criss-crossing the continent from ...

The former Jean-Talon railway station in Montreal's Parc Extension neighbourhood. Gentrification is a curious beast. At its roots, it’s an economic process, with deep-pocketed developers ...

Roger Ebert and his wife Chaz Hammel-Smith give the thumbs-ups to Nancy Kwan at the Hawaii International Film Festival on October 20, 2010. Photograph by ...