Montreal seen from Mile End, 1840 One of the old Gazette articles I referred to in my post about the revival of the name Mile ...

It’s that time of year, dear readers. So, here it goes… 1. Slaughterhouse, Slaughterhouse My favorite album of the year is the collaboration between ...

10. J.Tillman - Vacilando Territory BluesWhen not releasing albums with Fleet Foxes, Joshua Tillman works on his own brand of low key folk. This was ...

Last night I left a movie theatre at ten past three A.M., soused on root beer and spectacle, and ambled home with my roommate ...

Shannon StewartBeing an alliterative enthusiast myself (and a big fan of the letter P...pen, paper and poetry!) my vote goes to  a little treasure ...

  The Montreal Gazette recently reported  that the Hasidic community in Outremont and Mile End is suffering from a housing shortage. In 2002, there were about ...

Pop culture generally knows better than to try and tackle topical tragedy, which is why with a couple of  exceptions, the September 11, 2001 terrorist ...

When Kanye West sampled “Young Folks” on a 2007 mixtape – and later performed the track with Peter Bjorn and John on-stage in Europe – one couldn ...

I’m curious to see if Justice has a long career ahead of them, because they seem to have been a classic case of right ...

I’ve fluctuated awkwardly around my yearly “singles” list each year, at one point keeping a steadfast commitment to only including legitimate, record-company approved releases ...

What does music mean to you? I grew up a good 20 minute drive away from any record stores. Though I went to school in ...

I am ashamed to admit Russell Banks's essay "On Research" in the PEN anthology Writing Life might be the first thing of his I ...

Not long ago I met a woman who, recently divorced, was looking forward to the "cougar" trend, whereby women of a certain age date younger ...

Surfing at Big Wave Bay. Photo by Tom Booth Hong Kong isn’t known as much of a place for surfing — it doesn’t even ...

I hate guitar magazines. I hate almost everything about them. I hate the cover shots of guitarists holding their “axes” like weapons, the same stupid ...

Maisonneuve is pleased to announce that A. J. Somerset has won the  2009-2010 Metcalf-Rooke Award for his unpublished novel Combat Camera. Somerset, an Ontario-based freelance ...

Photo by Tommy Wong Stroll along one of the many beaches that are not regularly cleaned by the government and one thing is clear: Hong ...

I would call this self-promotion if I weren’t hyping someone else’s baby: this week in Montreal, a musical ensemble called the Coal Choir ...

With the possible exception of the Black Eyed Peas -- whose 1-2 punch of “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling” dominated the Billboard charts this ...

Howard Elias, founder of the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival There aren’t a lot of Jews in Hong Kong, but that hasn’t stopped ...