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Beauties Lab x &OR Collective: A collab of sustainable beauty, fashion, and Montreal women
The Main

Beauties Lab x &OR Collective: A collab of sustainable beauty, fashion, and Montreal women

Tying together threads of ethical consumption, self-care, and well-being with local, female-led businesses in the city.

The GOAL Initiatives Foundation & GOAL MTL: The depths of Montreal’s football community
The Main

The GOAL Initiatives Foundation & GOAL MTL: The depths of Montreal’s football community

Competition becomes collaboration at this interactive Montreal sports charity where the city explores the cultures of health, wellness, and inclusivity through play.

Ruelles vertes: On Montreal’s green alleyway labyrinth of culture, nature, and history
The Main

Ruelles vertes: On Montreal’s green alleyway labyrinth of culture, nature, and history

How Montreal’s maze of alleyways creates behind-the-scenes space for locals' daily life in everything from culture and gardening to democratized public space.

The Best of Montreal's Festivals, July 2024
The Main

The Best of Montreal's Festivals, July 2024

Explore Montreal's top summer festivals of 2024 and construct your guide to make the most of peak summer in the city.

Korean Film Festival Canada: Exploring sleep, dreams, and the body
Rachel Cheng

Korean Film Festival Canada: Exploring sleep, dreams, and the body

A look inside the Montréal-based, non-profit and artist-driven Arts East West’s annual gathering for films, media arts, and more from Korean, Asian Canadian, pan-Asian and Asian diasporic artists.

207 Ouest: The emotional inventory of a Mile End design shop
J.P. Karwacki

207 Ouest: The emotional inventory of a Mile End design shop

A subterranean curation according to coups de cœur from Myriam and Jeanne Élie of MYEL.

Brainchild: A surfboard studio passion project rekindled in Montreal's Sud-Ouest
J.P. Karwacki

Brainchild: A surfboard studio passion project rekindled in Montreal's Sud-Ouest

Where Mitch Martin gets back to one of the founding ideas behind Little Burgundy's September Surf Café.

Encore Books & Records: Getting lost in the stacks with owner Sean Madden
Jenny Greenberg

Encore Books & Records: Getting lost in the stacks with owner Sean Madden

Listening in to the stories behind NDG’s friendly neighbourhood bookstore, a family-run literary and audiophilic icon of the city.

The nouveau Levant: Redefining cuisines and cultures from Montreal's Arab diaspora
Yasmine Dalloul

The nouveau Levant: Redefining cuisines and cultures from Montreal's Arab diaspora

How Montreal's Levantine Arabs—Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian—are opening concepts that bridge adapting to a Western palate with staying true to who they are. 

Club St-Denis 257SE: A rare look inside one of Montreal's historic private clubs
J.P. Karwacki

Club St-Denis 257SE: A rare look inside one of Montreal's historic private clubs

Founded in 1874, Club St-Denis had long been the preferred meeting place for French-speaking business and political elite—now it's been reopened with an eye to new generations of membership.

PSC Tattoo: Talking shop with artist Dave Cummings
Jenny Greenberg

PSC Tattoo: Talking shop with artist Dave Cummings

From the first days of slinging ink on Centre Street in ‘76 to Montreal’s oldest tattoo studio.

Montreal Bowling: Reviving a relic in the downtown Forum
J.P. Karwacki

Montreal Bowling: Reviving a relic in the downtown Forum

Tapping into the pre-2020 nostalgia and cultural history of Montrealers, Montreal Bowling's a new(ish) project from local hospitality aficionados in the Forum downtown.

Lost Claws: One of Montreal's most fun-loving graffiti artists
J.P. Karwacki

Lost Claws: One of Montreal's most fun-loving graffiti artists

Up on the rooftops of the Plateau, down in the bowels of crumbling industry, and jokes everywhere between: This is the playful, ephemeral oeuvre of Lost Claws.

Talking queer food—and where to find it in Montreal
Ivy Lerner-Frank

Talking queer food—and where to find it in Montreal

Montreal's a queer-friendly city. How does that influence its hospitality industry and the safe spaces of its restaurants, cafés and bars?

Locals changing the self-care game in Montreal
J.P. Karwacki

Locals changing the self-care game in Montreal

"New year, new you" mentalities can begin at any time—and these Montreal-based self-care creators can prove it with the work they're passionate about.