My award for the most underlooked gem in Montreal goes to the Jacques Cartier Bridge Building. Built around 1930, it looks like an art deco ...

I saw Scott Pilgrim vs. The World last night and as my series of immediate-reaction tweets indicate, I did not enjoy it. Actually, I did ...

Took a drive into the sprawl / To find the places we used to play One of rock and roll’s most unfortunate tropes is the ...

Just a little while ago, I published an article on villains, about how badly written villains are plot twists and not characters, and well-written ones ...

Here’s one theory why Osheaga might be such a successful festival: no beer tent. Actually, that’s really just part of a larger story. Big, multi-stage ...

How does Montreal’s Osheaga festival do it? Look, it’s not perfect. Yes, there certainly could have been more washrooms on-site for Saturday. Yes, the food ...

Part of the brilliance of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film Rear Window was the way it acknowledged voyeurism as part of urban life. In the city, ...

A lot of people talk about Paul Vermeersch behind his back. I’ve seen them do it. I’ll be hanging out in the clatter of some ...

Lately I’ve been listening to one of my favourite Jean Leloup albums, La Vallée des Réputations, which was released in 2002. It’s folkier than most ...

Let’s begin with a premise that presumably we can all agree upon: literary criticism in Canada is struggling. Book review sections in our national press ...

Should an uprising against bad tunes ever take root, this issue’s main feature, “The Music We Hate,” just might be its manifesto—and our cover image ...

That's me, with my press credentials clearly visible. Photo by Simon Hayter. He’s good. Photojournalists were strapping on gas masks and helmets when I arrived ...

Kettling at Queen and Spadina from braden goyette on Vimeo. This isn’t exactly great cinema, but it shows a basic timeline of events leading up ...

Photo by Justin Giovannetti We just got back to our computers and are frantically writing this message. It is 4:45 a.m. on Monday morning. We ...

Photo by Stephen Davis As of yesterday I’ve learned two things: One, the police lie.  I listened while their press statements came out and directly ...

Photo by Stephen Davis. 1) The Toronto lockdown is all the protesters’ fault.Following 1999's spectacular demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, and 2001's ...

I rode the Toronto subway alone for the first time when I was ten years old. And I’ve been riding it—usually without parental supervision—ever since. ...

The arrest at the start of yesterday’s Queer Resistance March against the G20 in Toronto, near Queen and Yonge: I think I was the only ...

Cynthia Brouse, a Canadian copy-editor, teacher, magazine writer, and winner of the 2009 National Magazine Awards' Outstanding Achievement Award, died of cancer on Saturday, June ...

Nathan Destro and his “personal space protector” on the streets of Johannesburg. Photos by Christo Doherty In New York, bulging sidewalks have led to the ...