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 ...
Walking the length of Vancouver’s Seawall is a lesson in design fads and fashions. The Stanley Park stretch dates back to 1914 and is elegant ...
Dr. Tahir ul-Qadri speaks at a conference in 2011. Photograph by Servingislam. In late December 2012, an obscure religious scholar and humanitarian took the stage ...
Last week, the creators behind Veronica Mars, the short-lived but beloved television show that aired on UPN/the CW between 2004 and 2007, made internet history ...
Illustration by Yarek Waszul. Two years ago, the US National Archives started using Tumblr to publish photos and other historical documents that are now being ...
Will Sunday night's Academy Award win for Best Picture reframe the conversation around Argo? Or is the film doomed to polarize viewers indefinitely? Since it ...
Is the era of the musical recluse officially over? Consider that we now live in a world where: Axl’s Guns ‘n’ Roses actually finished Chinese ...
Peter Ames Carlin – Bruce It’s pretty ridiculous that Bruce Springsteen is about to enter his fifth decade in rock music and only now is he ...
A few months ago, as I was furiously reading and re-reading Kate Zambreno's Heroines (Semiotext(e)), my new homeopathic remedies arrived in the mail. One of ...
Marlene Etapp Dixon meets Prince William. Photo courtesy of the Etapp Dixon family. In July 2011, Marlene Etapp Dixon drove for seven hours and then ...
Photograph by Benutzer:Hase. Imagine you're reading the new Pulitzer winner. It's a two-thousand-page novel, called Tour de France, by Lance Von Armstronger. In the next ...
Photograph by Jason Harvey. Mile End is gentrifying, gentrifying, almost all-the-way gentrified. Since the eighties, when the Montreal neighbourhood became known as a cheap refuge ...
This year, for Christmas, my mother gave me a holiday-themed thong. She gave me some other presents, too—mostly books and kitchen supplies and a few ...
Illustration by Meinert Hansen. One of my most enjoyable New Year's Eves was spent worrying that robots would take over the world. It was December ...
Photograph by Colocho. Mismanagement. Delays. Number fudging. It's becoming a familiar refrain for Quebecers these days. It's also, unfortunately, a phenomenon not limited to the revelations ...
Olivo Barbieri, Aerial view of La Ronde amusement park and the Jacques Cartier Bridge, Montréal, 2004. CCA Collection. Gift of The Sandra and Leo Kolber ...
Earlier this month, a Salon feature titled “Is Taylor Swift being taken too seriously?” got quite a bit of attention — especially after a number of ...
Orange Car Crash Fourteen Times by Andy Warhol. Last night I witnessed a fatal car crash, which is not something I've ever seen before. A ...
Every day from spring to fall, a scene reminiscent of Georges Seurat’s most famous painting is reenacted next to the Lafontaine Park pond in Montreal. It’s as ...
