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Your guide to Japan Week 2025: 11 days of food, culture, and crafts in Montreal

From ramen and wagashi to kimono parades and tea markets, here’s how to make the most of Japan Week 2025 in Montreal.

J.P. Karwacki

Willie's Clubhouse brings an elevated billiards, darts, and cocktail lounge to downtown Montreal

This swish take on the 'bar ludique' creates a new recreational hub inside the Montreal Forum.

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@canada.gov.ca’s accidental archivist John Batt is reshaping Canadian culture

Discussing what’s mundane, regional, overlooked, and authentically Canadian with one of the country’s best digital curators—plus his ties to Montreal.

Gladys Bonyad

Librairie Résonance's bookstore concerts set the stage for musical experimentation

When slow and small makes an impact on the city’s wider music community with a stage for artists of all levels and backgrounds.

Hugo Meunier @ URBANIA

Drive-ins and outdoor movies: Holdouts of cinema culture

Twisters at the St-Eustache Drive-In, or a documentary under the stars?

J.P. Karwacki

A local's guide to the best things to do in Montreal [April 2025]

Soak up the first signs of spring and shake off what’s left of winter with the best things to do in Montreal right now.

Gladys Bonyad

P’tit Ours and La Toscadura bring new blood to Montreal's live music and social scenes

With affordable booking and DIY ethos, the latest venues in the city are giving local artists something rare: a place to play.

J.P. Karwacki

Esti d'franglais podcast captures Montreal's bilingual reality the way politicians won't

Putting the city's code-switching culture on record, one episode's sparked more honest conversation about Quebec identity than most news panels can manage in a season.

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Things to do in Montreal during April

From Easter feasts and art fairs to literary gatherings and Mozart’s masterpieces.

Anick Jasmin

The butcher who paints: The creative lives of Montreal's Philip Viens

How dedication to craft shapes charcuterie and canvases.

J.P. Karwacki

Photographer Rose Cormier documents where Montreal's music thrives as venues vanish

Half on stage, half in the crowd: Documenting communities at a crossroads.

J.P. Karwacki

Are cafés the new bars?

As bars struggle and alcohol sales drop, cafés are stepping in to redefine how Montrealers socialize.

Sruti Islam

Foil Gallery challenges the traditional art gallery model in Mile-Ex

It’s part gallery, part café, part bar, and, at its core, a place where art is both observed and experienced.

Jason Gisoo Kim

The emergence of Montreal's unofficial Koreatown

A community’s quiet roots, a cultural wave, and the making of a new landmark.

J.P. Karwacki

How Montreal’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade still marches on 200 years later

A volunteer-run spectacle with crowds numbering at 300,000, a testament to resilience, and a city-wide tradition that refuses to fade.

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