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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Orientalism, Gentrification and Irony in Parc Ex: A Response to the Globe and Mail
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 ...
Roger Ebert, the Posthumous Twitter Follow and the Way We Mourn Today
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 ...
