Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
“The editor from Esquire called and asked ‘Who’s the new bitch?’ And my name was added as a contributing editor on the masthead, where, among those guys, I was the only girl.” -Robin Green (from The Only Girl, pages 60-61) I have an octogenarian friend; a retired University professor who in the 60’s and 70’s […]
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! (@AKessaris) “Blunt-featured and barrel-chested with a full head of dramatically dark, pomaded hair, Klein doesn’t share his clients’ flair for fashion. He prefers sneakers and sweatshirts to paisleys and Nehru jackets. But while Klein doesn’t look like the most powerful and controversial player in the music business, he is […]
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “…nothing Lou Reed ever did was fully embraced first time around.” -Mick Wall It is said that the Velvet Underground never sold more than a dozen albums, but everyone who bought one started their own band. Described as “…the most significant cult band in the world,” they influenced every […]
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up “You very, very rarely meet someone like Plant, who is still fanatical about music after forty years at the top. That’s almost unprecedented.” -Bill Flanagan Many years ago I was having a coffee with a friend of mine at a small café on Monkland Avenue in N.D.G. The waitress […]
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It’s a scientific fact” -Homer Simpson Whenever asked what my dream job would be, I reply with the following: Either film director in the 1970’s (in my opinion the last golden age of Hollywood pictures), writer for Saturday Night Live from […]