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The Best New Bars in Montreal [November 2025]
An industry-forward haunt with precision mixology, a new live music venue, Japanese inspirations at a hotel bar, and one big German beer hall.

Give local: A gift guide that supports local makers in Montreal
From small-batch perfumes to zero-waste clothing, here's where to find gifts made by Montreal artisans.

A gift guide for people who take food seriously
From wild mushroom certifications to Japanese knives, here's what to give the food lover who has everything.

At RIDM, documentary isn't just film anymore
This year's festival pairs screenings with live music, challenges audiences with VR, and pushes the boundaries of what documentary can be.

Montreal Pool Room: Serving a city's hot dogs for over a century
How a Bulgarian immigrant's billiard hall became one of Montreal's most enduring institutions, from pimp steaks to late night eats infamy.

The unlikely third spaces emerging from Montreal’s bouldering culture
How climbing gyms like Café Bloc have become neighborhood hangouts—complete with coffee, bars, and saunas—that offer a compelling alternative to traditional gym culture.

Nirvana's bringing new school energy to Chinatown with an old school tattoo shop
Traditional styles and apprenticeships keep the faith to the craft, while monthly block parties bring hundreds to the neighbourhood.
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The Bulletin: Everything's temporary until it isn't [Issue #155]
The Bulletin is a collection of what's happened, what’s happening, and what’s to come in and around Montreal.

The best gifts under $50 from local Montreal makers
A handpicked guide for thoughtful, homegrown gifts under $50 made by Montreal's artists, roasters, jewelers, designers, and more.

Experiential gifts in Montreal: What to give the person who has everything
Because sometimes the best gift isn't something you can wrap.

How the Montreal-founded billion-dollar Sonder collapsed so suddenly
The short-term rental company went from student side-project to unicorn status before imploding.
Inside CKUT, Montreal's 38-year experiment in community radio
90.3 FM has been the mic for the mic-less for nearly four decades, kept alive by 300 volunteers and the belief that a homemade sound can be a beautiful thing.

We started a petition to make Montreal's ugly Christmas tree an annual tradition
Last year, we wrote about how the city should make the Ugly Tree official. This year, we're actually trying to make it happen.
A (mostly) spoken history of Pasta Casareccia and 40 years of feeding NDG
How a kid who swore he'd never run the family business ended up exactly in the institution where he belongs.

Montreal gets its first German beer hall in 30 years with Wünderbar
The 3,500-square-foot beer hall on Plaza Saint-Hubert serves Bavarian drinking traditions with liter steins of German imports along long communal tables.

NDG's Empress Theatre survived a century of change. Can it survive neglect?
Montreal's last (and Canada's only) Egyptian Revival movie palace reinvented itself for decades. Now it's been empty for 33 years.

