Montreal (page 5)

"Luba Lounge" is gone, and we've been mourning the loss. The next step in our grieving process was to visit Vinyl, which has taken its place on Bleury St. just below Sherbrooke. After a Friday night film fest at Cinema du Parc we decided to check it out. 

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One of my favorite words to learn in any language is butterfly - or papillon, flutur, smetterling, farfalla, mariposa.....the onomatopoeic list goes on. The names are as pretty as the butterflies are, so I was intrigued when I heard that one of the greenhouses at the Botanical Gardens in Montreal becomes home for thousands of butterflies during the early spring.

Read the rest of: "The Butterflies Are Back!"»

Last night, Montreal played host to the third edition of "The White Night" (La Nuit Blanche) - part of the yearly "Montreal En Lumière" festival program during which a variety of nighttime cultural activities take place in the city, often at reduced prices.

Just to give you an idea of the festivities, I'll tell you how my own "white" night unfolded.

Read the rest of: "La Nuit Blanche in Montreal"»

I am happy to recommend this cosy, hip (but not slick) wine bar, which despite being located in a place not conducive to any kind of nightlife (with the lights of the Provigo supermarket intruding through the large plate glass windows), offers quite something in other regards.

Read the rest of: "Pullman Bar"»

You no longer have to fly to Paris and take the TGV to experience your favorite Provencal views! Until January 8, 2006 you can visit Provence at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, for the exhibition "Right under the Sun. Landscape in Provence, from Classicism to Modernism"...

Read the rest of: "Provence in Montreal"»

Judging from the 6 or 7 buses of Japanese tourists armed with tripods and zoom lenses that could launch canonballs I saw unloading beside Lac des Sables, the Laurentien mountains (a.k.a. les Laurentides) of Quebec possess fall foliage that draws a very international crowd.

Read the rest of: "The Little Train of the North"»

Part of the Eastern Townships, Magog is a small village on the shores of Lake Memphremagog. It's a half hour from the Vermont border, and about an hour (and a century or so) away from Montreal.

Read the rest of: "Magog, Eastern Townships of Quebec"»

Knowing that I am now based in Montreal you, of course, expect me to send in aesthetically pleasing images of Notre-Dame Basilica, the statue of Admiral Nelson or, should worse come to worse, the Palais des Congrès. And I am just going to be different and difficult, once again...

Read the rest of: "Postcard From Montreal: La Cité"»