by Joseph Rossi Childhood nostalgia goes right down the toilet…
Michael’s Quick, Easy and Delish Dish for the Weekend
By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up minorgan@yahoo.ca CHIPOTLE CHICKEN (OR SEAFOOD)AND CORN CHOWDER Another summer crop is now hitting the local markets and farmer’s stands lining the cornfields in the country…Corn. Corn is probably one of the oldest foods to grace our planet. Known as maiz in Spanish its use has been documented to prehistoric […]
Michael’s Quick, Easy and Delish for the Week
GOAT CHEESE AND TOMATO TART By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up minorgan@yahoo.ca This is the time of year I eagerly wait for every summer, the time when our local markets are overflowing with delicious ripe tomatoes of every possible variety. I am a huge unforgiving fan of this delicious fruit, I even take it upon […]
Montreal reggae festival headliner Marcia Griffiths on Bob Marley and the role of women in reggae
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen the “Queen of Reggae” Marcia Griffiths perform live over the past 25 years, in Jamaica and abroad. During that time I’ve also interviewed her a few times, but this last year heard for the first time a story from […]
Curtains Up on Guardians of the Galaxy
by Joseph Rossi Guardians of the Galaxy reminds me of how I felt when I was 6 and I first saw Return of the Jedi. Not that this has anything to do with that 1983 film but the feeling I got from watching it was… well…nostalgic. Very rare these days that I find a film that transports me […]
Samantha’s Weekend Roundup
Ongoing **L’International des feux lotto Québec, until August 2, 2014 http://internationaldesfeuxloto-quebec.com/en/programmation/calendrier.aspx **Zoo Fest until August 3, 2014 http://zoofest.com/fr#.U8k8qha0Yuk Montreal First Peoples Festival at Quartier des Spectacles until August 5, 2014 http://www.presenceautochtone.ca/en/home Fantasia International Film Festival until August 5, 2014 http://www.fantasiafestival.com/2014/en The Soul Legends Tribute Concert: Music of Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Barry White, Earth, […]
Curtains Up on Life Itself
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! (@AKessaris) I first heard of Roger Ebert, or more accurately Sneak Previews (the PBS movie-review show he co-hosted with Gene Siskel), thanks to Mr. Eccles, my Grade Six teacher at Barclay Elementary who spoke of the show (broadcast locally on Vermont-ETV), often in class. From the first time I saw […]
Samantha’s Weekend Roundup
Ongoing ACME Burlesque a l’Esplanade de la Place des Arts until July 26 sous la Chapiteau “La Tentation” www.hahaha.com The Soul Legends Tribute Concert: Music of Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Barry White, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Many more with Carlos Morgan at Le Balcon Cabaret Music Hall, July 25 & 26, August 15, 29 & […]
Michael’s Quick, Easy and Delish Dish for the Weekend
By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up minorgan@yahoo.ca THE MEXICAN BURGER The hamburger is the iconic North American dish ever more popular and visible at our summer bbq’s. It might well be universally thought of as American, but one of the many claimants to its creation is a Danish immigrant to the USA and the owner […]
Curtains up on Hercules and Goal of the Dead
by Joseph Rossi One is a big budget summer spectacle, the other is a movie about — well — zombies and soccer. Both are actually not bad.