Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
By Tracey Hill for Curtains Up Poehler & Fey did a good job as hosts of the 2014 Golden Globes (albeit a little risqué), glibly making fun of their peers who all seemed to take it in stride with big guffaws and hearty swigs of bubbly. Best presenter; I think it was a tie between […]
By Tracey Hill for Curtains Up Splendore a Venezia, a gently paced exhibition with music and fine arts playing a most lyrical duet is on for only 8 more days at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in the Jean-Nöel Desmarais Pavillion. Bursting with information and surprising facts about the history of opera, art and […]
By Tracey Hill for Curtains Up The word ‘convenient’ isn’t how most restaurateurs would describe their establishments. But at Maddie’s Place, ‘convenient’ is sexier than Channing Tatum in a thin cotton t-shirt on a humid day. Taking the 20 to the Mercier Bridge after rush hour took about 13-14 minutes, and Maddie’s Place is 2 […]
For Curtains Up by Tracey Hill Capping off my first Fringe Fest experience, I have to say that the warmth and hospitality of English Media Director Cam McKinnon and Fringe Director Amy Blackmore was nothing short of incredible. They made sure that I felt comfortable, welcomed, and introduced me to a plethora of talented, dedicated […]
By Tracey Hill for Curtains Up I will NOT discuss the food at Joe Beef. I will NOT go into flavor, spice, inventive combinations, local produce and smart presentation. Nope…no way, José. Expounding upon the humble, yet other-worldly savors that tempted our picky, hard-to-please palates is something I will leave to my colleague, Chef Michael […]
Kibitzing with members of Montreal media at the crudité table was a great way to get a heads-up on my first Fringe-for-All. Fringe organizers welcomed the media at Petit Campus for a pre-show cocktail, and as a Fringe ‘virgin’, I appreciated sage advice from seasoned veterans as to what was about to be an all-out […]
The title of Johanna Nutter’s one-woman play ‘My Pregnant Brother’ certainly evokes a myriad of questions and emotional responses. You’d think it was about her pregnant brother, and how he underwent physical, emotional and mental transformations, right? Wrong.
I must admit, I’m behind the eight ball on Montreal’s Fringe Festival. Before Monday’s media call at Les Katacombes bar, I had heard of the Festival, but I didn’t really know what it was all about, having spent most of the past 20 summers or so in the Laurentians. Knowing what I know now, I […]
Is ‘inspiration’ becoming such a nauseatingly cliché word, that people now avoid using it at any and all costs? We see today’s artists visibly cringe and wince at the question; “What inspires you?” as though they’re being forced to divulge a raunchy, taboo fantasy to Joan Rivers on national TV. To many, using the word in interviews or polite dinner conversation to […]
Don’t wait until the last weekend of the exhibit (June 16th) to visit Peru; Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The last week of any exhibit is always wildly chaotic, and I, for one, don’t appreciate being in hour-long lines that force me to ‘go with […]