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    MAPP_MTL 2026: Your Guide to the 10th Iteration of Montreal’s Projection Mapping Festival
    AnnaClare Sung

    MAPP_MTL 2026: Your Guide to the 10th Iteration of Montreal’s Projection Mapping Festival

    The event will celebrate art, community, and the city, as it produces free installations, workshops, and parties during September and October.

    What To Do This Weekend (09.24-09.27)
    AnnaClare Sung

    What To Do This Weekend (09.24-09.27)

    Music festivals, cycling championships, projection mapping, and more: September 24 to 27, 2026

    What Comes After Run Clubs? Taking to the Dance Floor
    Morgan Mullin

    What Comes After Run Clubs? Taking to the Dance Floor

    From queer line dancing to beginner ballet, Montreal’s growing dance scene offers another way to get moving, meet people, and feel part of something.

    Café Cadence Brings Japanese Baking and ’80s Design to Chinatown
    AnnaClare Sung

    Café Cadence Brings Japanese Baking and ’80s Design to Chinatown

    Sandos, matcha and seasonal lunches fill the menu, but a Japanese baker’s answer to the coffee shop croissant is drawing much of the attention.

    The Dominican Food You Skip in Punta Cana Is Cooking in Villeray
    Krystale Tremblay-Moll

    The Dominican Food You Skip in Punta Cana Is Cooking in Villeray

    For the city's three Dominican restaurants, cooking for the community is only half the business. The other half is getting everyone else to the table.

    The Last Good Weeks: An Alley Party and Zine Launch to Celebrate the Harvest
    J.P. Karwacki

    The Last Good Weeks: An Alley Party and Zine Launch to Celebrate the Harvest

    Come celebrate the peak of the harvest season with us, and pick up a new special edition magazine.

    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.

    Montreal Lands Four Finalists on Air Canada's Best New Restaurants
    J.P. Karwacki

    Montreal Lands Four Finalists on Air Canada's Best New Restaurants

    A Petite-Patrie bistro, a market smokehouse, a yakitori counter and a Korean steakhouse are in the running for the 2026 Top 10 in November.

    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 Bulletin: 1,000 Cyclists From 80 Countries, All-Day Breakfast in Chinatown, and RuPaul at Piknic [Issue #199]
    The Main

    The Bulletin: 1,000 Cyclists From 80 Countries, All-Day Breakfast in Chinatown, and RuPaul at Piknic [Issue #199]

    The Bulletin is a collection of what's happened, what’s happening, and what’s to come in and around Montreal.

    Routy Nails the Date Night Ambiance, but the Kitchen Is the Real Draw
    J.P. Karwacki

    Routy Nails the Date Night Ambiance, but the Kitchen Is the Real Draw

    Éric Berlin and Grégoire Routy have remade their longtime Van Horne address with a more intimate room and ambitious Mediterranean cooking.

    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.

    The World’s Most Liveable Cities Know Who They Are. Does Montreal?
    Fede Sanchez

    The World’s Most Liveable Cities Know Who They Are. Does Montreal?

    Montreal holds its own against the world’s most liveable cities. Its real weakness is harder to measure.

    Montreal Deserves a Feast Without a Velvet Rope
    Daniel Braz

    Montreal Deserves a Feast Without a Velvet Rope

    A public lottery, a patron auction and no head table could create a civic ritual that finally lives up to the city's egalitarian self-image.

    Summer’s Winding Down, but Piazza di Mano Is Just Getting Started
    AnnaClare Sung

    Summer’s Winding Down, but Piazza Di Mano Is Just Getting Started

    A once-vacant lot in Griffintown has become a neighbourhood gathering spot. The people behind it hope this summer is only the beginning.

    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.

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