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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From a country road out of a fortified colony to a corridor of immigrants, artists, labour organizers, gangsters, and entrepreneurs, Saint-Laurent Boulevard tells the story of Montreal better than any other street.
Between flooded inboxes, ghost interviews, and AI-spam CVs, hospitality hiring has been broken for years. A new app wants to fix it.
Two decades in, the chef and co-owner on sobriety, restaurant math, and how to run a twenty-year-old restaurant without becoming a museum.
The 200-year story of a street that's always belonged to everyone and no one.
From a long-overdue return by British funk legends to a masked duo that’s breaking the internet, these are the shows pulling Montreal’s record store crews out of the shop and into the crowd.
He patrolled the streets of Montreal, packed theatres across Europe, and returned to the city for an event that felt part miracle, part funeral.
When Kyoto meets Montreal, less is genuinely more.
The oldest borough meets the new blood of culture and hospitality, plus seven kilometres of riverfront that shaped all of it.
Away from city hall and campaign promises, Montreal’s mayor talks family, neighbourhoods, favourite haunts, and the city she calls home.
What looked like a failure to land the world’s biggest sporting event may have been one of the city’s smartest decisions.
A two-year collaboration between Mona Fine Joaillerie and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens explores the shared language of movement, transformation, and craft.
A modern Vietnamese bistro from three longtime hospitality veterans, where diaspora identity and Latin American influences shape a distinctly Montreal menu.
