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The Best New Cafés in Montreal [June 2025]
Montreal’s new wave of cafés is here—these 28 spots are bold, creative, and built for more than just caffeine.
From Seoul to Griffintown, this is your complete guide to POCHA MTL 2025
Four days of Korean street food, K-pop performances, fan culture, and strong summer energy by the Lachine Canal.
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 complete guide to the best festivals of Montreal, season by season
Doesn't matter if there's a snowstorm or a heatwave, here’s how Montreal throws a party all year long.
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The Bulletin: Pizza and vinyl, sunset line dancing, and half a million flowers [Issue #134]
The Bulletin is a collection of what's happened, what’s happening, and what’s to come in and around Montreal.
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.
A complete guide to Chợ Đêm MTL, Montreal’s Vietnamese night market
Four days of food, music, memory, and modern Vietnamese culture on the waterfront.
This is Sergey, Montreal's most elusive record seller
An afternoon with the "Russian of Lachine" and his 300,000-strong trove.
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.
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The Bulletin: A beer garden thrift market, too many DJs, and race weekend at an art gallery? [Issue #133]
The Bulletin is a collection of what's happened, what’s happening, and what’s to come in and around Montreal.
We’re throwing a block party—and you’re invited
Roll through for a gathering of the collaborators, characters, and readers who have helped build what we are today in one summer spot.
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.
Renzo makes the case for a better sandwich shop in the Mile End
Playing the long game with 14 sandwiches, retro signage, a design to outlast, and boozy slush for the summer.
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The Bulletin: Surreal museum drinks, donut smash burgers, and 800 ways to Fringe [Issue #132]
The Bulletin is a collection of what's happened, what’s happening, and what’s to come in and around Montreal.