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    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.

    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.

    Benoit Tardif: An Illustrator's Guide to Montreal
    J.P. Karwacki

    Benoit Tardif: An Illustrator's Guide to Montreal

    From spots to work and places to print to undercelebrated artistic curios, few people are better to offer a guide to Montreal from an illustrator’s perspective than this enigmatic artist.

    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.

    James Kerr / Scorpion Dagger's favourite things in Montreal
    J.P. Karwacki

    James Kerr / Scorpion Dagger's Favourite Things in Montreal

    The Montreal-based artist known as Scorpion Dagger on things to love and change about the city, fond memories, the importance of walking, and getting mugged for $4 one time.

    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.

    The Denim Virtuoso Who Refuses to Play the Game
    Rachel Cheng

    The Denim Virtuoso Who Refuses to Play the Game

    Naked & Famous founder Brandon Svarc on three generations of Montreal denim, and why he's never needed a runway show or influencer to prove it.

    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.

    Little Maghreb: The faces and places of Montreal's diasporic North African neighbourhood
    Rachel Cheng

    Little Maghreb: The Faces and Places of Montreal's Diasporic North African Neighbourhood

    Located at the end of the Blue Line, Montreal's Little Maghreb of Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension is rich with diasporic Arab and Amazigh communities.

    ināt: Crafting perfect imperfections in Montreal's New Chabanel
    J.P. Karwacki

    Ināt: Crafting Perfect Imperfections in Montreal's New Chabanel

    Furniture maker and woodworker Michaël Fiset (AKA Mike Fiz) of the workshop ināt on creativity, finding purpose, and (re)building.

    The best songs from Montreal that kept us company throughout 2023
    Sasha Manoli

    The Best Songs from Montreal That Kept Us Company Throughout 2023

    These are the tracks that deserve a spotlight: The hidden treasures of Montreal's music scenes in 2023 that'll keep us moving into the new year.

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