Archive for 'Misc'
Polytechnique, by Denis Villeneuve (in The Walrus)
Montreal filmmaker Denis Villeneuve brings the Polytechnique massacre to the screen Twenty years ago this December, as they finished up their last week of classes before the Christmas break, fourteen young women at Montreal’s École Polytechnique were killed by twenty-five-year-old Marc Lépine, who entered the school with a semi-automatic machine gun sheathed in a garbage […]
Posted: April 20th, 2011 under Beats, City, Denis Villeneuve, Misc, Movies, People, Profiles, The Walrus.
Tags: Denis Villeneuve, Montreal cinema, Polytechnique
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Nothing Beats Montreal Beets (In The Montreal Buzz)
Everybody knows that Montreal is the place with the most beautiful women and the best foie gras this side of the Atlantic, but we excel in the vegetable department as well. Let it be known, from this point on, that Montreal has the best beets on the planet… Technically, the many varieties of red, yellow and […]
Posted: April 18th, 2011 under City, Food, Media, Misc, Sid Lee/Tourisme Montreal, Travel.
Tags: Beets, Best Beets; beta vulgaris; beets road salt, Brasserie T!; Toqué!; Le Filet, Montreal
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Montreal, C’est toi ma ville (National Geographic Traveler)
A comprehensive online guide to Montreal written for National Geographic Traveller’s Places of a Lifetime franchise: “Je me souviens” (I remember) is Quebec’s provincial motto, and history is present everywhere in Montreal, a city teeming with architecture and culture from the past three centuries. Canada’s second largest, third oldest, and most cosmopolitan city is also a […]
Posted: March 30th, 2011 under Books, City, Food, Misc, Movies, Music, National Geographic Travel, People, Travel.
Tags: Montreal, National Geographic Traveler, Places of a Lifetime
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Paul Merrick, Vancouver architect (in The Walrus)
Almost Grown: Paul Merrick, whose firm is one of several designing Vancouver’s Olympic Village, thinks his beloved city is finally outgrowing its architectural adolescence. If cities are like human bodies, as Paul Merrick says, then West Vancouver is the city’s long left arm thrown out into Burrard Inlet. Marine Drive, the road that hugs much […]
Posted: March 28th, 2011 under City, Misc, People, The Walrus.
Tags: Olympic Village, Paul Merrick, Vancouver 2010
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Sucker Punch, by Zack Snyder (Hour Magazine, cover)
Women on the Verge: Sucker Punch puts weapons of destruction in the hands of babes A sucker punch is synonymous with what’s called a “dirty hit,” or misogynistically, a “bitch move.” It’s a hit that takes the recipient unawares, usually from behind. But Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch is nothing if not full frontal (though not […]
Posted: March 26th, 2011 under Hour Magazine, Misc, Movies, People.
Tags: Abbie Cornish, Emily Browning, Jon Hamm, Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder
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H2Oil, by Shannon Walsh (Hour Magazine, cover)
Dirty oil, sold dirt cheap: Montreal filmmaker Shannon Walsh’s H2Oil digs deep into Alberta’s multi-billion-dollar oil industry As Canadians, we are the proud owners of what may be the most environmentally destructive undertaking of our or any other era. The multi-billion-dollar industry that extracts oil from the Athabasca oil sands is internationally controversial and environmentally […]
Posted: February 28th, 2011 under Misc, Movies, People.
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Hobo with a Shotgun (Hour Magazine, cover)
Shot in Halifax: HwaS is transgressive independent cinema at its very best…or worst, depending on the time of day Forget lobster, bar fiddles and the Cabot Trail – once Hobo With a Shotgun hits screens next week, Nova Scotia may soon be famous for gore-spattered urban decay. The aptly named debut feature directed by 28-year-old Jason […]
Posted: February 26th, 2011 under Hour Magazine, Misc, Movies, People.
Tags: Halifax, Hobo with a Shotgun, Jason Eisener, Rutger Hauer
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Merry Christmas from Stella (Hour Magazine, cover)
All Sex Workers want for Christmas is a Charter Challenge, etc Why is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Émilie Laliberté’s Christmas wish list? Our cover model is a sex worker and spokeswoman for Stella, Montreal’s community organization by and for sex workers. There is still a long way to go before sex workers […]
Posted: December 25th, 2010 under City, Hour Magazine, Misc, People.
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Due Date (in Hour Magazine, Ottawa Xpress)
Expectations are high for Due Date, screenwriter/director Todd Phillips’ follow-up to last year’s The Hangover, a dirty little flick set on the seedy side of Sin City, starring semi-unknown actors, that became the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. The Hangover‘s most memorable quality, besides the Phil Collins/Mike Tyson cameo, wasthe wildcard in a movie of wildcards: Zach […]
Posted: November 7th, 2010 under Hour Magazine, Misc, Movies, People, Zack Galifianakis.
Tags: Canadian girls, Commercial Drive, road trip, Robert Downey Jr, Wreck Beach
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Sustainable Seafood: Sydney, Australia
Five stops on my crustacean vacation in Sydney, written for onAir, Air Canada’s monthly newsletter. 1. To get myself in an aquatic frame of mind, I start by heading to the venerable Sydney Fish Market, the city’s source for all things fishy since 1945. It’s also the largest fish market in the southern hemisphere and […]
Posted: October 1st, 2010 under City, Food, Misc, onAir, Travel.
Tags: Australia, fish, seafood, Sydney
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