Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
From April 24 to 27, Montreal’s own Blue Metropolis international literary festival will feature a comprehensive lineup of over 160 authors and artists from around the world, all taking place at downtown’s Hotel 10. Under the theme of Time, the Tree, the Page, this year’s lineup includes conversations with none other than Salman Rushdie, Peter […]
This year’s Blue Metropolis was a celebration of Dreams & Utopias, a theme that took centre stage at last Friday evening’s panel, Inner and Outer Landscapes in a Changing World, located in downtown’s Hotel 10. Hosted by former CBC journalist Paul Kennedy, the hour-long talk featured Italian particle physicist and novelist Paulo Giordano (Tasmania) and […]
From April 25 to 28, the 26th edition of Blue Metropolis will bring some 150 literary giants to Hotel 10, with participants gathering from around the world to share their writing, reflections, big ideas, and hopes for a better world. Join writers as they explore this year’s theme of Dreams & Utopias through readings, conversations, […]
In her titular poem bodies like gardens, which opens the chapbook, Montreal poet Salena Wiener shows us how gardens are fertile ground for capturing the unique experience of being a woman. I feel weeds push my back, grasp my hips pull me under I gasp for breath but cough up mud The beautiful, evocative, sometimes […]
“Rock stars aren’t like you and me. They act insane and have insane things happen to them. They are more like feral, narcissistic animals than functioning members of society, and this is in part what makes them entertaining.” -Jake Brennan (from Disgraceland) “…on my tombstone when I go/Just put ‘Death by Rock and Roll’…” Thus […]
“Somehow, I’ve managed to live an unusual and amazing life. Was it in spite of or because of what follows?” -Barry Sonnenfeld (from Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother, page xvii) Back before COVID-19 when people still got excited about new theatrical releases, the movie industry would invariably parade a film’s star around for a promotional […]
“All my life has been a search for my highest self and a journey to the depths of spirit. Too often distracted by the competitive world, tripping over my own foolish ego feet, but driven by the beauty, I keep trying, and I stay the course, trying to let go and feel the truth of […]
“Entwistle’s contemporary and fellow bassist, the former Rolling Stone, Bill Wyman, once dubbed him ‘the Jimi Hendrix of the bass guitar’. This was meant as the highest compliment but, with it, Wyman also inadvertently conjured the very demon that would haunt Entwistle throughout his professional life. Indisputably, he was a virtuoso musician, easily the most […]
“Parking my motorcycle in front of a motel at the end of a long day on the road could certainly be sweet, like finally exhaling after holding my breath all day, but best of all was setting out in the morning. Whatever torments the night had brought; whatever weather the new day threw at me, […]
“The real history of music is not respectable. Far from it. Neither is it boring. Breakthroughs almost always come from provocateurs and insurgents, and they don’t just change the songs we sing, but often shake up the foundations of society. When something genuinely new and different arrives on the music scene, those in positions of […]