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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Every year produces bars and restaurants worth tracking, and Montreal's latest is a strong showing.
The photographer has spent years documenting Montreal’s post-pandemic underground. We asked them which collectives, DJs, and communities are shaping what comes next.
A season’s worth of street parties, open-air performances, sporting events, and annual cultural traditions curated by The Main and URBANIA.
Through immersive installations by Paola Pivi and Jakob Kudsk Steensen, PHI asks whether art can help us navigate climate anxiety and a world where truth feels increasingly unstable.
Tanneries, train tracks, and a Restaurant Row: a neighbourhood guide to Montreal's hardest-working quarter.
The Montreal illustrator enlisted roughly three dozen writers, artists, and poets to fill a hand-restored 1950s vending machine with fortunes in both languages.
The WILLS Director of Operations on hospitality, leadership, and creating the kind of space he never saw when he entered Montreal’s restaurant industry.
Montreal started here. So did some of its best restaurants, bars, and hotels.
The new Pointe-Saint-Charles venue combines courts, cocktails, Pilates, and hospitality in a bid to make the club itself the destination.
An Old Montreal bar where hi-fi sound, curated records, and conversation take precedence. There are still plenty of highballs, though.
Years of studying Roman tradition led Giuseppe Sacchetti to an unexpected conclusion: the pizza he wanted to make wasn’t purely Italian, but it was unmistakably Montreal.
World premieres collide with free shows in the streets across 11 days of performances: Here’s how to navigate the 17th edition of Montréal Complètement Cirque from July 2 to 12, 2026.
