Griffintown has quite arguably solidified its recent reputation as the hub of some of the most exciting new culinary ventures and up and coming chefs in our city. It’s street s once lined with noble antique dealers and art galleries are now being ‘gentrified’ and ‘yuppie-fied’ with restaurants of all stripes.
Independent games at Comicon! Passion, talent and originality
David Lebrun for Curtains Up In recent years, a surge of talented and determined developers appeared on the Internet, bringing with them creativity, diversity and risqué art direction that was much needed. Old genres are reborn or developed and entirely new artistic visions push the gaming industry towards interesting ventures. A whole area of […]
Samantha’s Weekend Roundup
Ongoing Pride Montreal, until August 16, 2015 http://www.fiertemontrealpride.com/en/pride/ International Balloon Festival of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu until August 16, 2015 https://www.ballooncanada.com Les Samedis St Henri until September 5, 2015 https://www.facebook.com/events/713264888778577/
‘Curtains Up’ Fall Wine Harvest & Artisanal Food Excursion (Sept 18th – 21st)
For all you wine lovers and artisanal food addicts I am organizing a Fall Excursion to Quebec’s wine country in the Eastern Townships. It will include an extensive tour of some of the area’s best wineries where we will take part in harvesting grapes, take part in the traditional barefoot stomping on grapes, enjoy […]
Samantha’s Weekend Roundup
Ongoing OSM Classical Spree Festival until August 8, 2015 at Place des Arts http://vireeclassique.osm.ca/?lang=en Woman x Women at Station 16 until August 8, 2015 https://www.facebook.com/events/624868317656723/ Les Samedis St Henri until September 5, 2015 https://www.facebook.com/events/713264888778577/
Michael’s Quick, Easy and Delish Dish for the Weekend
ROMESCO SAUCE This delicious Catalan sauce is a red pepper and roasted nut sauce originating in north eastern Spain and originally conceived as a sauce to be served with fish. (1) While it is still used mainly with seafood it also feel right at home accompanying poultry, some meats like lamb and grilled vegetables. It […]
Curtains up on the last stretch of Summer Movies
The Fantastic Four is not a movie. It’s a set up for the actual movie that has yet to come out. It is a boring slog of an origin story about a team of young geniuses who become superhuman. Reed Richards (Miles Teller) becomes the elastic Mr. Fantastic. Sue Storm (Kate Mara) is the Invisible […]
Luba comes home, with Pride
Canadian 1980s pop icon Luba smiles when she recalls the day she performed in front of 12,000 rock fans at the Montreal Forum in January 1983. “Montreal shows have always been nerve-racking because it’s my hometown, but this show was crazier because it was my first big show, I was opening for Chris de Burgh […]
Samantha’s Weekend Roundup
Ongoing Montreal First Peoples Festival at Quartier des Spectacles, July 29 – August 5, 2015 http://www.presenceautochtone.ca **L’International des Feux Lotto Québec, until August 2, 2015 http://internationaldesfeuxloto-quebec.com/en/programmation/calendrier.aspx Montreal Fantasia Festival, until August 4, 2015 http://www.fantasiafestival.com/2015/en/pre-festival La zone de musique Place D’Armes // 2015, until August 6, 2015 http://www.vieuxmontreal.ca Woman x Women at Station 16 until August […]
Michael’s Quick, Easy and Delish Dish for the Weekend
Corn and Crab Soup with Crispy Tortilla Strips A great recipe both for fresh corn and for a soup. Corn, now coming into season locally, is one of the oldest foods known to man being cultivated as a food source since 2500BC. Most of the corn we eat today was first domesticated by […]







