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    Shop local at Marché ASIASIE 2025, Montreal’s premier pan-Asian marketArts & Culture
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    Shop local at Marché ASIASIE 2025, Montreal’s premier pan-Asian market

    From pantry staples and K-beauty to calligraphy workshops and Indian dance: Shop local at Montreal’s biggest pan-Asian market experience.

    Meet Lewis Mallard, Montreal's psychedelic folk artistArts & Culture
    Jean Bourbeau @ URBANIA

    Meet Lewis Mallard, Montreal's psychedelic folk artist

    Between performance and very real hallucinations.

    Your guide to Japan Week 2025: 11 days of food, culture, and crafts in MontrealArts & Culture
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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.

    @canada.gov.ca’s accidental archivist John Batt is reshaping Canadian cultureArts & Culture
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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.

    Librairie Résonance's bookstore concerts set the stage for musical experimentationArts & Culture
    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.

    Drive-ins and outdoor movies: Holdouts of cinema cultureArts & Culture
    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?

    P’tit Ours and La Toscadura bring new blood to Montreal's live music and social scenesArts & Culture
    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.

    Esti d'franglais podcast captures Montreal's bilingual reality the way politicians won'tArts & Culture
    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.

    Things to do in Montreal this AprilArts & Culture
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    Things to do in Montreal this April

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

    The butcher who paints: The creative lives of Montreal's Philip ViensArts & Culture
    Anick Jasmin

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

    How dedication to craft shapes charcuterie and canvases.

    Photographer Rose Cormier documents where Montreal's music thrives as venues vanishArts & Culture
    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.

    Are cafés the new bars?Arts & Culture
    J.P. Karwacki

    Are cafés the new bars?

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

    Foil Gallery challenges the traditional art gallery model in Mile-ExArts & Culture
    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.

    The emergence of Montreal's unofficial KoreatownArts & Culture
    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.

    How Montreal’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade still marches on 200 years laterArts & Culture
    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.

    Spare Jeans: How a rebel tailor went from selling cigarettes in Manila to sewing Montreal’s coolest jeansArts & Culture
    Jenny Greenberg

    Spare Jeans: How a rebel tailor went from selling cigarettes in Manila to sewing Montreal’s coolest jeans

    Master denimhead tailor Prospero Rey’s decades-long journey from the Philippines to creating one of Montreal’s most original fashion ateliers.

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