Montreal Photo of the Day – April 20th 2015
From left to right, Windsor Station, 1250 Boul. René Lévesque (the tower with the prominent spire), St. George’s Anglican Church, Place Laurentienne and the CIBC Tower (which also has a prominent...
View ArticleMontreal Photo of the Day – May 4th 2015
Taken from Saint Jacques and Rue de la Montagne. From left to right: you can just see the penthouse of Place Ville Marie behind the fifteen-floor tower of the Romanesque Revival styled Windsor Station...
View ArticleMehta, Mahler and the Maison Symphonique de Montréal
Not Mehta or the OSM, but Leonard Bernstein conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. Close enough… Confession: I was neither familiar with Mahler’s Third Symphony, nor the city’s new concert hall, until...
View ArticleCabot Square Redux: not quite paradise, kind of a parking lot…
After about a year’s worth of work, Cabot Square re-opened to the public on Wednesday July 8th. The major improvement involves two outreach workers who will now use the square’s renovated stone kiosk...
View ArticleDenis Coderre needs to stop spending money on parks
Another week, another colossal waste of our municipal tax dollars. Tuesday’s announcement: $12 million to renovate Place Vauquelin, the public square between City Hall and the Old Courthouse. Among the...
View ArticleThe odd saga of the Montreal Museum of Fine Art’s entrance
A few years ago I was at O’Hare with an hour and a half to kill between flights and after a quick bite and a coffee I was keen to go have a smoke. Unsure of where the exit was located, I approached two...
View ArticleThree-Alarm Fire Nearly Destroys Historic Snowdon Theatre
That was a close one. According to the Journal de Montréal, the fire at Montreal’s historic Snowdon Theatre, though severe, was not so bad it weakened the structure. Damage seems to have been...
View ArticleSnowdon Theatre Fire, The Lowest Point & Social Media
Generally speaking, I’m a fan of urban exploration. However, there’s a few golden rules we should all keep in mind when it comes to exploring the secret and unseen parts of the city: don’t leave any...
View ArticleExpo 1881
Many years ago when I found myself making my way towards the Tam Tams one sunny summer Sunday and wound up in the middle of a strange festival going along the Mount Royal Avenue side of Parc...
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