Ongoing ChinaTown Street Sale, until June 29, 2014 http://www.mtlblog.com/2014/06/montreals-chinatown-to-host-first-summer-time-sidewalk-sale-next-week/ Montreal International Jazz Festival, until July 6, 2014 http://www.montrealjazzfest.com/default-en.aspx L’International des feux lotto Québec, June 28 – August 2, 2014 http://internationaldesfeuxloto-quebec.com/en/programmation/calendrier.aspx Fabulous Fabergé the Jeweller of the Czars, until October 5, 2014 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts http://faberge.mbam.qc.ca/en/#exhibition Cirque du Soleil – Kurios: A […]
Michael’s Quick, Easy and Delish Dish for the Weekend
By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up minorgan@yahoo.ca SUMMER SEAFOOD STEW Summer is the perfect time for light and casual dishes that take little time to prepare and use only the freshest summer ingredients. Most important these dishes should be able to make largely ahead of time and can be served in very casual settings. can […]
Curtains Up on Transformers: Age of Extinction
by Joseph Rossi My oldest boy loved Transformers: Age of Extinction. Why wouldn’t he? It appeals to him. It’s made for him. I brought him expecting he’d love it. He asked me if I liked it. I told him I’d rather get all my teeth pulled out at once rather then having to spend close […]
Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir by Linda Ronstadt (Simon & Schuster, $29.99)
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “I think of music as dreaming in sound.” -Linda Ronstadt When Linda Ronstadt retired from show business in 2009 after five decades, countless hit records, multiple Grammy Awards, and over one hundred million albums sold, it signaled the end of an era when vocalists belted out lyrics that had […]
VIVA LALOUX!
By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up minorgan@yahoo.ca The word ‘bistro’ automatically brings to mind those iconic unpretentious Paris eateries that celebrate honest traditional cuisine served in a jovial and cosy atmosphere where great conversation and joie de vivre abound. True bistro food is almost always traditional and based largely on local seasonal ingredients. They are […]
A Feast of Summer Activities in Montreal – Staycation!
by Abby Schachter for Curtains Up -When all you can afford is localities. Montreal in summertime is anything but boring. Embrace that ‘staycation’ of yours and take advantage of our festival filled and activity packed city. -St –Amboise Fringe Festival Fringe ( June) Budding artists and musicians take to numerous stages and […]
Samantha’s Look at Weekend Events
Ongoing **Catch Me if You Can, until June 22, 2014 at the Harold Greenspon Auditorium CSLDramaticSociety.com Fabulous Fabergé the Jeweller of the Czars, June 14-October 5, 2014 at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts http://faberge.mbam.qc.ca/en/#exhibition Cirque du Soleil – Kurios: A Cabinet of Curiosities until July 13, 2014 in the Old Port http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/shows/kurios/tickets/montreal.aspx?cid=ps:kur_ca-qc-01_2014:kurios_montreal_2014:google:ac055%7C43307460648:tks:adv&keyword=cirque%20du%20soleil&gclid=CLT3_qDXtb0CFbFaMgodEV0AOw Musical Brunch […]
Michael’s Quick, Easy and Delish Dish for the Weekend
GRILLED OCTOPUS By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up minorgan@yahoo.ca Grilled octopus is one of my favourite seafoods to prepare on the barbeque. They are predominant in all Mediterranean cuisines with some of the best varieties being harvested on the Tunisian island of Djerba. They are a very. common tapas dish throughout the Mediterranean and a […]
Curtains Up on Jersey Boys
by Joseph Rossi I love musicals. It is my favorite genre. It’s pure fantasy and I always succumb to the joys of watching actors break out into song and dance on a whim. When I heard that Clint Eastwood was directing the film adaption of the hit Broadway show, Jersey Boys, I wasn’t sure he […]
Heart raise the roof in Montreal, the city that launched band’s career
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett Heart’s longtime love affair with Canada – and Montreal in particular – dates back almost 40 years, to the night in 1976 when they were fired from Lucifer’s nightclub in Calgary, back when Heart was just another bar band . “I made some disparaging remark about the club […]