Maisonneuve on Kaufman & Spry: Issue 49
This week, we travelled to the oddly Twin-Peaks-esque studio of Kaufman & Spry, a Montreal-based online radio show about culture, politics and sports. Joined by …
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Harper and Nixon: Two Peas in a Pod
A wolfish Stephen Harper in Calgary. Photo by Jean Gagnon. Ron Graham has an essay about Stephen Harper in the 10th anniversary issue of The …
Is Comic Con Worth it for Small-Scale Artists?
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 …
Dear David Gilmour
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 …
Five New Artists to Watch Out For at POP Montreal
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 …
The Hijab is Not a Political Tool
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, …
Today, U.S. Income Inequality is Worse than in 17th-Century England
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 …
You've Been Mispronouncing Don Juan, Just So You Know
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: A Personal Remembrance
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 …
Why We Changed One of the Headlines in Issue 48
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 …
Grassroots Community Fundraising and the Particulars of Location
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 …
The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry: A Discussion
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 …
The Ford Brothers and the Complicated Politics of Class
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 …
Why Montrealers Must Resist Bylaw P-6
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 …
The Boules Roses of Montreal's Gay Village
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 …
Uncanny Tunes: The Music of Bioshock Infinite
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 …
The Joy of Edmund White
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 …
The Marathon Runner
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 …
Race, The Mindy Project and Why We Need More South Asian TV Characters
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 …
Excess Baggage
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 …
