J.P. Karwacki
Montreal, Quebec
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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.
"A restaurant is fixed in time and place—Menu Extra is not."
How a group of Le Mousso alumni laid out their own definition of dining in Montreal—all without opening a restaurant.
Mr. Beau Type and the art of noticing
What began as a personal archive has become one of Montreal’s most quietly compelling design diaries.
Why being weird works in Plaza St-Hubert’s new era
Multilingual, weird, and working-class, Plaza St-Hubert is one of the few streets where Montreal’s past and present coexist in a uniquely local way.
How the Atwater Market fed Montreal through depression and renewal
A civic monument, a neighbourhood anchor, and a living archive of what Montreal eats since 1933.
Saint-Léonard’s Fringale food festival is back for its second edition
The second edition of the SDC Jean-Talon Est’s month-long culinary event celebrates Saint-Léonard’s immigrant cultures through exclusive dishes from 20 local restaurants.
The Mile End's Dalmata Gelateria started out with one rogue soft-serve machine
What began as an off-menu experiment at Le Violon is now Mile End’s charming new shop for swirled ice cream.
This recipe, and the man behind it, remains the same from NDG to Saint-Henri
At Bistro Amerigo and La Spada, the real secret ingredient is who's making it.
The urban meadow rewriting the map and memory of Montreal
The Ville-Marie Expressway cut its city in two. This civic space honouring 21 women with flowers, architecture, and intention stitches it back together.
From opera house to haunted relic to hot ticket, Montreal's Rialto Theatre refuses to die
A near-forgotten movie palace that's outlasted demolition plans, disco dreams, and decades of decline to become one of Montreal’s most resilient cultural landmarks.
A Montreal veteran on what the DJ scene’s lost—and what’s still worth saving
There’s a soul of DJing worth preserving that’s getting lost in the algorithm age, says JoJo Flores.
Can Montreal's Quartier Molson solve the heritage paradox?
How a 238-year-old industrial legacy is being transformed into a waterfront neighbourhood of urban repair.
A century-old sewing shop reopens as a living exhibit of Montreal’s garment past
Preserved almost exactly as it was, the former H. Fisher & Fils shop offers a rare, tactile glimpse into working-class life and quiet entrepreneurship.