Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
By Stuart Nulman Author Chris Epting is a pop culture traveler. For years, he has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, from coast to coast, in search of the still standing and disappeared landmarks of American pop culture. He searches for the places where its significant events happened, as well as […]
By Chef Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up Welcome to the first of my weekly quick and easy and above all delicious recipes for your weekend enjoyment. My first recipe is a definite favorite of mine. I managed to glean it from a wonderful Vietnamese lady who I met on my last visit to Hoi An, […]
by Joseph Rossi How can a director like Sam Raimi make a boring film? The director of the Evil Dead movies, Darkman and the underrated Drag me to Hell? Please, someone tell me because I sat there for two hours as Oz the Great and Powerful played before me and all I could think about […]
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up! @bugsburnett I was a 12-year-old disco bunny when I saw the Village People perform live at the Montreal Forum back in 1978. The opening act was none other than Gloria Gaynor, who won the only disco Grammy ever awarded, in 1979, for her classic I Will Survive. Twenty-five years […]
By Chef Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up They are the modern day incarnations and throwbacks to the frolic, mayhem and freewheeling days of prohibition and the subterranean closed door speakeasies that flourished throughout our major metropolises in the 1920’s They are the underground restaurants, where admission, like entry to the speakeasy, is by invitiation only […]
by Joseph Rossi for Curtains Up Hudson, Quebec is home to the Hudson Village Theatre, a charming venue housed within an old-fashioned train station. It is here that the Hudson Film Society screens films for its members as well as for the public. It sports a brand new lobby complete with a coffee and refreshment […]
By Sharman Yarnell About one minute into the play, the laughter starts.Two Irishmen, traipsing across the ‘auld sod’ in search of a descendent, ending up in a graveyard with a doddering old woman and finally at the local Priest’s, is a bit of a giggler in itself. Imagine if one of the men is around […]
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up It has long been said in the comedy world that “women aren’t funny.” It was even the subject of a Vanity Fair article by Christopher Hitchens (a well-written piece that, like everything by him, was serious and I must admit rather convincing). I for one had never carried […]
By Stuart Nulman In his introduction to this book, recording industry mogul Clive Davis, whose Arista record label the late Whitney Houston recorded on, has this to say about the legendary singer who tragically died over a year ago: “Whitney and I were special creative partners on all her songs that have become the soundtrack […]
The scourge of cancer is never easy for anyone involved, especially if a teenager is diagnosed with this dreaded disease, and should be focused on high school, friendships and shopping instead of chemotherapy, radiation treatments and debilitating side effects. Award-winning author John Green has touched upon this very unthinkable subject with his latest novel, the […]