Former camillienne in St. Louis Square Montreal owes much to two twentieth-century strongmen/mayors: Camillien Houde and Jean Drapeau. Drapeau gave us sleek Modernism, expressways and ...

A map of Montreal's music scene. Photo by Kelly Ebbels. Matt and Kim (September 30, Club Lambi) On the first night of Pop Montreal, I ...

Ten days in Paris were something of an awakening. I wanted to take a photo every minute until I was more used to the atmosphere ...

  Ever notice how many used bookstores there are in Montreal? Seems like every couple of blocks you stumble across one, almost as many as ...

I live in Verdun, a rather under-explored part of Montreal. Technically speaking, we’re a borough of the city of Montreal, though based on how tricky ...

Lately I’ve become enamored with this strange idea of a generational tension within myself – the sensation of being kicked between my past and future ...

One of the many perfect moments in The Big Lebowski is when Walter Sobchak (John Goodman), upon learning that the next round of the bowling ...

In yesterday’s blog post The Troubling Case of Roman Polanski, Steven W. Beattie called Roman Polanski “criminally, if not morally culpable” for drugging and sodomizing ...

What I find most problematic about the people who are publicly rushing to condemn filmmaker Roman Polanski – who was arrested last week in Switzerland ...

It’s easy to hate Michael Moore. Whiny, nasty and often exploitative, waddling around his films like the précis of the know-it-all liberal elite, Moore is ...

  Bocce plays on October 2 at 9 p.m. at Saphir. Pop Montreal hosts a lot of shows worth your time and dollars. Here are ...

Blogging has always been fun for me, but I’ve never given it much serious thought. I have always been the type to throw down a ...

I’m reminded of Al Purdy’s oft-reworked poem "Elegy for a Grandfather," and that opening line full of sceptical wonder: “He died. At least they said ...

Everyone loves birds, or thinks they do. They just haven't looked closely enough. The reality of birds is that they fly around above our heads ...

Hello; my name is Kelly. I’m from New Jersey and from Canada at the same time. I studied history and political science at McGill University ...

In celebration of Leonard Cohen’s 75th birthday last Monday, the National Film Board’s “online screening room” (read: website) is showcasing Donald Britain and Don Owen’s ...

Sometimes when I'm feeling sleepy and religious, I like to ask myself the question: who's better, the Protestants or the Catholics? This might happen to ...

I've been the Markin-Flanagan Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary since mid-August and I've had a fabulous and productive month. From my 11th floor office ...

With the 34th Annual Toronto International Film Festival winding down, it strikes me as a good time to clear my head and unload a little ...

Dan Brown's new book, The Lost Symbol, which was launched Wednesday at midnight,  sold more books in its first seconds than all the poetry books ...