Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
“…Star Wars has always been a welcoming, comforting presence. It is the great equalizer in a sense. Whether or not one would admit it to you is one thing, but unless they were a feral child, there is a 99.9 percent chance that every man, woman, and child alive today has made a lightsaber noise […]
“Part of the reason the movie business was struggling throughout the 2010’s was its leaders couldn’t adjust to the fact that they were no longer the center of the pop-culture universe, around which all other media orbited. Movies still had an important place, of course, but they no longer had the first and foremost claim […]
“…the dishes they cooked don’t hang in a museum, can’t be ordered from Amazon, won’t pleasantly surprise you when you happen upon them on HBO. Meals pass through us. Restaurants close. Chefs, like General MacArthur’s old soldiers, just fade away. Save for the menus, cookbooks and – more recently – documentaries, there’s no element of […]
“I have a million more stories I could tell in this book, but I don’t have the energy…By using a few of my stories as descriptors, I hope it will have a domino effect. More women will rise up, take their power, and say ‘no more.’ And men will stand as allies.” -Rose McGowan (from […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for February 2018: MUSIC The live music scene kicks into high gear as Montrealers’ wallets have gotten fatter since the holiday season. Some of the bigger names headed to town this month are British rock legends Uriah Heep (Corona Theatre on February 10), legendary Genesis guitarist Steve […]
Growing up the movies were my refuge; a place where I could escape for a few precious hours from the melancholy of my daily life (so much so that as a child I often daydreamed that my family had moved into an apartment adjacent to a multi-cinema plex where I’d discover a secret passage in […]
“’Normal is a setting on a washing machine.’” -Tom Hanks (from Uncommon Type) To a writer a typewriter is more than just a tool; it is a partner, a collaborator, a companion, and an extension of the person using it, not unlike a guitar is to a musician or a bat is to a baseball […]
“I entered adulthood unsure of who I was, where I belonged or where I came from, so I made up my story as I went along, and in that, music was my answer to everything. Rather than having the world tell me who I was, on stage, through my songs, I could tell the world. […]
Here are my choice Montreal arts and culture highlights for October 2017: MUSIC Rock icon Roger Waters is back in town. Following his Montreal appearance on the red-carpet at the world premiere of the Opéra de Montréal’s Spring 2017 adaptation of Pink Floyd’s iconic album The Wall, called Another Brick In The Wall – The Opera, […]
“A composer and a writer, though he was a greater wordsmith. I’ve known a lot of people in the arts, and he was the first Renaissance man I ever met. He showed up and had an immediate impact, basically representing the entire history of black music and telling stories about the black experience.” -Bob Golden […]