Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
By Terry O’Shaunessy Award-winning novelist, journalist and biographer Charles Foran will make a special appearance next week at StoryFest 2013, Hudson’s annual literary festival that brings the crème-de-la-crème of Canada’s literary scene to the tiny town on the Lake of Two Mountains. Author of the much-lauded Mordecai: The Life & Times, Foran will talk about Mordecai […]
Abby Elizabeth for Curtains Up It is no surprise that playwright Erin Shields won the 2011 Governor General’s Award for her play ‘If We Were Birds.’ The production which is an adaptation of Ovid’s ‘Tereus, Philomela and Procne,” received a teary eyed standing ovation on opening night. […]
By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up www.globalgourmets.ca michael@globalgourmets.ca Restaurants located in hotels have never been my first choice when planning a night out. I don’t know if it’s the “if I’m staying there why would I eat there” syndrome or if it’s just my perception that most hotel restaurants are usually over priced, a […]
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett Bonnie Raitt remembers seeing her father, the late great Broadway star John Raitt, perform in Pyjama Party on the Great White Way when she was all of five years old. “The thing I’ve taken from him was to make every night opening night,” Bonnie Raitt, now 64, says. […]
By Michael Minorgan for Curtains up www.globalgourmets.ca michael@globalgourmets.ca Green Papaya Salad Green papaya salad can be found throughout South East Asia, in Cambodia, Laos and also Viet Nam. The dish is prepared relatively the same way in all countries and combines the five main tastes of their local cuisines: sour lime, hot chilli, salty, […]
by Joseph Rossi In the last few weeks we’ve seen Prisoners, Rush and Gravity. How could anyone complain about a lack of content in the cinema these days? This week comes the new film Captain Phillips by director Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks. This is the real deal. A taut, tense and emotional experience worthy […]
Sharman Yarnell for Curtains Up Wowza! What a trip at The Segal! ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’ absolutely rocks the room! The term “this joint is jumpin” is, quite frankly, inadequate. It’s hard to go wrong with the music of Fats Waller, but when you have a cast made up of Kim […]
by Joseph Rossi Gravity is why people go to the movies. It is an amazing experience that fires up the imagination and literally leaves you gasping for air. It is visual masterpiece made by a director known for walking the line between genius and audacity. In 1967, Stanley Kubrick shook the world with 2001: A […]
By Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up www.globalgourmets.ca michael@globalgourmets.ca Moroccan Chicken When it comes to food that encompasses bold and exotic flavors you seldom have to look further than the many cuisines of Northern Africa or in this particular case the enchanting and sometimes mysterious country of Morocco. Moroccan cuisine has for centuries been subject to […]
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “…the art of making a Bond movie is to do exactly the same thing – only do it differently.” -Christopher Wood Recently a cable movie channel ran a month-long James Bond celebration. I enjoyed watching the early classics like Dr. No, Goldfinger, and my personal favorite, From Russia […]