Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
I must admit, I’m behind the eight ball on Montreal’s Fringe Festival. Before Monday’s media call at Les Katacombes bar, I had heard of the Festival, but I didn’t really know what it was all about, having spent most of the past 20 summers or so in the Laurentians. Knowing what I know now, I […]
By Sharman Yarnell Photos by Andy Gryn We’ve all done it: Sat on a bus or metro, or on a bench in a park and marvelled at some of the oddities that pass by – some scruffy, some snobby and pristine, others youthful and noisy or elderly and even noisier. One thing for certain is, […]
By Sharman Yarnell for Curtains Up Have you ever left a play unable to stop thinking about the production, the subject matter and the acting? Originally written in french by Carole Frechette and translated into english by John Murrell (beautifully translated), ‘Thinking of YU’ is playing in the small theatre at Centaur. I attended a […]
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up! @bugsburnett True story: I was chasing a bat in my Montreal apartment the very night that Australia’s legendary hard-rocking boogie band Airbourne was headlining Le National back in 2008. I missed that show, but the next time Airbourne came to town – opening for the nastiest, skankiest rock’n’roll sideshow […]
By Chef Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up www.globalgourmets.ca Burmese Chicken Curry with Yellow Lentils (Kalapei Kyetharhin) This mysterious country, once known as Burma, has been hidden for decades behind an almost impenetrable wall of secrecy and is only now just opening its doors to the outside world. It looks like a tremendously beautiful country that […]
by Joseph Rossi To be honest, I never cared about Iron Man. Comics and movies — never cared. I thought the first movie was an okay attempt to please comic book and action junkies. It brought back to life the career of Robert Downey Jr. and gave him a perfect excuse to use his usual […]
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! The year was 1988. I was a young student in my first semester at Dawson College taking a course in documentary film taught by David Grey. I wrote a paper on the NFB film Lonely Boy. The paper gets me a grade of 82%. In 1995 I am […]
by Joseph Rossi Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain is a big, brutal, mess of a movie. It’s also the director’s best attempt at filmmaking since…well ever. Usually a helmer of big, silly, summer tentpoles, this is Bay slumming it. Working from a clever script by the writers of The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and the first Captain America, […]
By Chef Michael for Curtains Up www.globalgourmets.ca Asian Onion Soup We all love that wonderful warm and homey feeling of a comforting rustic onion soup with its sinfully rich and gooey cheese nestled atop a crispy crouton and enjoyed by a fire in the middle of winter. Well winter is supposedly well ensconced in our […]
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up! @bugsburnett British alt-rock musician and left-wing activist Billy Bragg formed the punk rock band Riff Raff in 1977 and was touring London’s pubs and clubs when one day, in the spring of 1978, he joined 100,000 people in the first-ever Rock Against Racism march from Trafalgar Square to East […]