Any sports fan will tell you, you can’t win if you can’t score. When it comes to the World Cup, though, getting lucky often involves ...

If the stream of car flags hasn’t tipped you off yet, it’s World Cup time again, so get ready for some late night honking. Yep, ...

When we gave Chantal Braganza's piece on Montreal guitarist Nelson Symonds the headline "When Canadian Jazz was Good," we hoped to attract some attention—but we ...

I am generation MuchMusic. How could I not be? I came of age in the late 1990s CanRock boom, an era where bands like The ...

Yann Martel was kind enough to talk with me about his new novel, Beatrice & Virgil. Although it isn’t as easy a read as his ...

The Trotsky is everything you've been promised. It's a weird, geeky, sweet comedy. It's got Jay Baruchel at his nerdy best. And it manages to ...

Several media outlets reported this week that the Montreal police have released photos of “looters” caught on camera in the celebration/riot following the Canadiens’ Game ...

I spotted this article from Halifax’s Chronicle Herald on my friend Trevor’s Facebook page earlier this week, talking about cultural funding cuts back in Nova ...

Zab Maboungou founded her contemporary African dance company, Cercle d'Expression Artistique Nyata Nyata, in Montréal in 1986. It was a time when African dance was ...

                    It might seem that there’s not much going on in Vancouver besides drug addiction, homelessness, ...

I wonder what Mao Zedong would have thought of Shenzhen. (From Urbanphoto. Follow DeWolf on Twitter.) Pick up Issue 35 of Maisonneuve for Christopher DeWolf's ...

A few years ago, I was given a book about women who'd lost their mums. My dad’s girlfriend lost her mother to cancer, and Motherless ...

A cautionary tale concerning faith from Thomas Conant's Upper Canada Sketches: "During the winter of 1842-3 the Second Adventists, or Millerites, were preaching that the ...

I Deal Coffee The Communal Mule I was looking forward to spending three days in Toronto last year: good food, fun times with friends I ...

If you’re at all like me, you probably didn’t blink an eye when it was announced that the New York Times was going to host ...

When any syndicated critic calls a film “morally reprehensible,” it ends up as a kind of reverse-endorsement, the sort of thing you have to pay ...

I'm writing today about a web series some friends of mine made last year called The Bitter End. I wrote a piece about the show ...

This is, perhaps, why I've never bothered up to now to try and get to the U.K.It has taken me 37 years to make my ...

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. -Russell Beland, SpringfieldMcMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like ...

The best thing about working for Luciano was getting to use the meat slicer.  Strictly speaking, Luciano's cafe was just a run-of-the-mill coffee joint in ...