Last year we
wrote
about the massive reconstruction project in the
Quartier des Spectacles
- namely, a new plaza for the yearly Jazz Festival and similar events. One year has passed and the project bore its first visible (or, rather, walkable) fruit.
The $40-million Place des Festivals plaza was unveiled last month with an inaugural show featuring fluttering multi-colored water jets (a rather expensive spectacle, opined some local journalists) and packs of awe-stricken tourists enjoying the last warm days of Montreal's short summer.
Having snubbed the inauguration festivities, I went by with my camera to take a look a few days later...
Read the rest of: "Place des Festivals Opens, Fountains Operational"»
The Montreal Jazz Festival 2008 has just finished
and the city is already fevereshly preparing for the 2009 edition. You might think this is an overstatement - after all, there's almost a year left! But in fact, in this short year, one of the most important concert spaces, the plaza between Place des Arts and Rue de Bleury will have to be completely redone.
The models and renderings for the new Place des Festivals were
made public a few days ago and the city's mayor took the opportunity to
assure everybody the project is "on schedule, on budget"...
Read the rest of: "Montreal to Get New Plaza in 2009"»
"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.
Read the rest of: "Vinyl Bar"»
