The case made the front page of The New York Times in June 1901, shocking the continent’s financial elite: the wealthy widow Ada Mills Redpath, 59, and her son Jocelyn Clifford Redpath, 24, were found fat...
While pop-up haunted houses and plastic decorations have long been at the heart of Halloween festivities, this fall, Spooky Season is taking over the city’s historic landmarks. From a ghost story at the N...
Ah! The movies! As the nights grow shorter and the breeze grows cooler, we find ourselves wanting to take refuge in the velvety embrace of a movie theater. But, of course, you always have to choose your m...
Thirty-four years after the release of their cult album *Nous Autres* (Victo, 1992)—a true masterpiece of unbridled creativity and free improvisation— Fred Frith and René Lussier are finally reunited. ...
Street photographers—a term that’s half-cool and half-derogatory for some of the world’s best photographers—are holding their festival in Montreal this fall. We use the terms “street” or “documentary”...
The nights are getting cooler in Montreal, and the kids went back to school this week. It’s officially back-to-school season, and we’ve run out of things to read. A beach (or lakeside) novel and a fall no...
Two weeks ago, we marked the anniversary of the Great Peace of Montreal. 325 years ago, in 1701, one of North America’s most important diplomatic documents—the Great Peace of Montreal—was signed under a l...
In 1966, author andsocialite TrumanCapote hosted the most iconic ball of the decade. There were 450 guests—artists, actors and actresses, European aristocrats, American politicians, debutantes, and “it gi...
Summer in the city—and in Montreal—has a palette of proto-nostalgic flavors that evoke the American movies we watched as children; they taste of freedom and anticipation, and carry the weight of a never-ending day. The...
Montreal, with its historic architecture, colonial ghost stories, and almost obsessive fascination with 1970s American design, is also a city that’s quite up to speed on the latest technologies. Some of t...