J.P. Karwacki
JP Karwacki is the managing editor of The Main. His work has previously appeared in Time Magazine, the Montreal Gazette, Time Out, NUVO, and more.
Montreal, Quebec
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North America’s largest non-profit housing community grew out of decades of tenant organizing. Half a century later, there is still nothing else like it.
At this new members-only bar in Old Montreal, joining is free but admission is vetted—a bid to create a more social, less predictable night out.
Opened unfinished and deep in debt in 1893, the Monument-National went on to host Yiddish theatre, Chinese opera, public education, and generations of performers.
Montreal finally has a second airport, and it works... So why doesn't it look like Montreal?
Looking back on a country crowd over two days at Parc Jean-Drapeau.
Ahead of MUTEK, four Quebec studios open up about what built the province's digital arts scene—and why the world might be noticing before Montreal does.
On the origins of Expo’s grand humanist theme, and how it lived on for 17 strange summers after the fair ended.
For his first leading role, Sessa plays Bourdain before the fame by bringing curiosity—not nostalgia—to the part.
The case for staying in a city that doesn't work.
Looking back on three days at Parc Jean-Drapeau with 151,000 people and dozens of artists.
From a donated home, Christopher Curtis and Savannah Stewart run an operation that isn't replacing legacy media so much as outliving it.
The nightlife of clandestine cabarets and roving parties alike created essential queer space of belonging and resistance over generations in Montreal.
