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    Montreal’s Perfume Scene Is Building a New Culture of Scent as Art
    Saelan Twerdy

    Montreal’s Perfume Scene Is Building a New Culture of Scent as Art

    For the city’s perfumers, artists, and apothecaries, scent is becoming as much about what you feel as how you smell.

    Hochelaga’s Skate Scene Rolls Through Palm Isle
    Morgan Mullin

    Hochelaga’s Skate Scene Rolls Through Palm Isle

    After more than 25 years, the people behind Palm Isle know that what makes a skate shop matter isn’t just what it sells.

    The World Cycling Championships Come With an 11-Day Party on Saint-Denis
    AnnaClare Sung

    The World Cycling Championships Come With an 11-Day Party on Saint-Denis

    For 11 days from September 17 to 27, the street’s cafés, bars, and bike shops are giving Montrealers a reason to follow more than the races.

    Oasis’s Reunion Film Makes the Obsession Easy to Understand
    Gianni Fiasche

    Oasis’s Reunion Film Makes the Obsession Easy to Understand

    The Gallagher brothers are back on stage, but the most revealing moments in ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ happen away from them.

    Why Are Montreal Creatives Looking Beyond the City Core?
    Kristina Stamkopoulos

    Why Are Montreal Creatives Looking Beyond the City Core?

    Based in the West Island, Dépanneur Studios offers one model for sustaining creative work beyond Montreal’s usual cultural corridors.

    Marché Floh’s New Homeware Store Turns a Vintage Destination Into a Lifestyle Brand
    AnnaClare Sung

    Marché Floh’s New Homeware Store Turns a Vintage Destination Into a Lifestyle Brand

    After winning over a generation that likes its clothes with a past, the Montreal vintage mainstay is making itself at home.

    Mandy Benoualid Wants You to Plan Your Death
    AnnaClare Sung

    Mandy Benoualid Wants You to Plan Your Death

    The founder of Keeper and TalkDeath turned her grief into a memorial platform and movement that’s helping people remember, mourn, and talk about dying.

    How Shoemaking Traditions Live On at Cordonnerie Carinthia
    Kaitlyn DiBartolo

    How Shoemaking Traditions Live On at Cordonnerie Carinthia

    Dominique Bergeron learned the trade beside his future father-in-law. Now he’s passing it on as Quebec’s cobblers disappear.

    Ryan Reynolds Is on Autopilot in Mayday, but Kenneth Branagh Soars
    Gianni Fiasche

    Ryan Reynolds Is on Autopilot in Mayday, but Kenneth Branagh Soars

    Apple TV’s Cold War action comedy finds unexpected warmth, one enormous laugh and a compelling reason it belonged in theatres.

    Josh Johnson Is Building a Comedy World the Algorithm Can’t Replicate
    J.P. Karwacki

    Josh Johnson Is Building a Comedy World the Algorithm Can’t Replicate

    Ahead of four Montreal shows, the Daily Show correspondent is turning the summer camp he never had into his most ambitious production yet.

    Drowster Is Photographing Against the Clock
    J.P. Karwacki

    Drowster Is Photographing Against the Clock

    The Montreal photographer has built an archive around a recurring impulse: preserving what may soon be gone.

    Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Turns Gen Z Media Obsession Into a Slasher
    Gianni Fiasche

    Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Turns Gen Z Media Obsession Into a Slasher

    Starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, Jane Schoenbrun’s funny, bloody new film finds something unsettling beneath all that analysis.

    Turning Slow Craft Crochet Into a Fashion Brand With LOOSENDS
    Kristina Stamkopoulos

    Turning Slow Craft Crochet Into a Fashion Brand With LOOSENDS

    Former dancer Bennett Tracz has built with little more than sustainable yarn, wearable projects, and a belief in making things by hand over hustle culture.

    Julian McKenzie Looks to Hockey’s Black Past to Confront Its Present
    Tom Zalatnai

    Julian McKenzie Looks to Hockey’s Black Past to Confront Its Present

    In Black Aces, the sports journalist profiles the players who broke through while asking why racism and cost still shape who gets to play.

    Things to Do in Montreal This September
    AnnaClare Sung

    Things to Do in Montreal This September

    The cure for end-of-summer sadness: burgers, ferments, projections, and a lot more country culture than you'd expect.

    LASSO 2026 in Photos, Five Editions In
    J.P. Karwacki

    LASSO 2026 in Photos, Five Editions In

    Looking back on a country crowd over two days at Parc Jean-Drapeau.

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