Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
“I was doing what needed to be done on behalf of the guys, but I didn’t want to be called the leader any more than Richard wanted to be referred to as the lead singer. Ours was an equal playing field, with each person holding up his end and doing what he could for the […]
“This book is about my fifty-three-year relationship with Canada, one that, for me, continues to grow and deepen. We may not live in the same house, but I think about Canada every day, and my American friends wonder why I just don’t marry it already. I can’t. I looked into in.” -Mike Myers (from Canada) […]
“I was twenty-three and I was making a living playing music! Friend, there’s a reason they don’t call it ‘working,’ it’s called PLAYING! I’ve left enough sweat on stages around the world to fill at least one of the seven seas; I’ve driven myself and my band to the limits and over the edge for […]
“…I come up with a title for my book. I’ll call it Based on a True Story, because it comes to me that there’s no way of telling a true story. I mean a really true one, because of memory. It’s just no good.” -Norm MacDonald (from Based on a True Story: A Memoir) The […]
“As it turns out, being OKAY ALL THE TIME as a child makes for a difficult entry into adulthood.” -Amy Schumer (from The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo) I enjoy Amy Schumer’s stand-up and it’s always a treat to watch one of her many talk show appearances. I liked her movie Trainwreck, although my […]
“I didn’t lose the weight in order to write a book. I didn’t train myself to eat healthy in order to share my techniques with the world. I didn’t do it because the trips to the hospital scared me skinny. I did it because I wanted to give myself a few more chances to die […]
“At a time when prominent idealistic politicians were being gunned down, when civil rights campaigns were exposing structural inequities and certain groups were seriously advocating a race war, when the US Army was bogged down in Vietnam, and where an atomic war between America and the Soviet Union looked inevitable, Star Trek portrayed a tolerant, […]
“David’s penchant for using real names and real-life stories in Seinfeld scripts, week after week, without any effort to conceal constructed a third dimension: There was reality; there was television; and there was Seinfeldia, where the elements of both comingled, passed through, and, as the show’s audience grew, enticed fans into feeling like this was […]
In Montreal the best Greek cuisine is in Park Extension or on Park Avenue, the best Italian is of course in St. Leonard or Little Italy, the best Southern Asian is located on Jean-Talon (also in Park Ex), the best delis are on The Main, and the best East Asian food can be found in […]
“What these people in their midtwenties were doing, although none of them were aware of it at the time, was building the rock canon. In this they were more successful than they could have dared hope. Many of the musicians who made those 1971 records are still playing today, in bigger venues than ever, in […]