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    The Bulletin: Total chaos. Zero cohesion. All good stuff. [Issue #143]

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

    By The MainAugust 21, 2025 - Read time: 8 min
    The Bulletin: Total chaos. Zero cohesion. All good stuff. [Issue #143]A look back on LASSO last weekend's among the many, many things on offer in this edition of the Bulletin. Hang on to your hats. | Photograph: Alexa Kavoukis / @alexa.kavoukis

    What can we say? We got nothing for you this week when it comes to a cohesive intro. We put it all down, stepped back to take a good look, and thought: "This is chaos."

    You can tell just by giving it all one good scroll: We’ve got puppets roaming Wellington, tarot readings with your espresso martini, hyperpop raves blasting Charli XCX and NCT, and a grand reopening that somehow combines dirty horchata and back-to-school stationery.

    Brooklyn DJs are spinning funk and Afro-Caribbean grooves in a Parc-Ex alley, while kids gather for nature stories beside grazing sheep. A Laufey-themed album drop is turning a bookstore into a fan zone, someone’s giving out free cannoli with live jazz in Little Italy, and a festival in the Old Port is mixing cocktails, fashion shows, and social-change cinema.

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