Yearly Archives: 2008
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Photo du jour: Canal bridge
I have a confession: if I were riding my bike and I came across this bridge, I probably wouldn’t dismount either. Lachine Canal at the Atwater...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Delivery
La Gauchetière near St. Urbain. July 9, 2008
By Christopher DeWolf -
Sidewalk-cleaning graffiti
Guerilla advertising in the form of sidewalk stencils is nothing new—Julie’s post below details the city of Portland’s lawsuit against...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Making the ad creeps pay
In an interesting case from the Pacific Northwest, the city of Portland, Oregon, is suing employment-classifieds site Jobdango for the almost $5500 it...
By Julie Fournier -
Roadsworth, the movie
Roadsworth‘s notoriety, already well-entrenched in Montreal and the art world, is about to spread. Director Alan Kohl and the National Film Board...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Mid-week headlines
4Discrimination raciale: Des agents du SPVM sont blâmés 4Agression dans Côte-des-Neiges: une adolescente se rend 4Road deaths less than in ’07: SAAQ...
By Julie Fournier -
Photo du jour: Lonely House
Towers Street in the downtown west end. July 1, 2008
By Christopher DeWolf -
Dancing in the streets
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-2EuNC5ejk[/youtube] One of my favourite things about summer in Montreal is the sheer abundance of street...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Toronto Tuesday: Rethinking the suburban arts, the Queen Street Market’s story, and passive-aggressive posters at the AGO
An afternoon on Toronto’s Center Island. Exhibition Review In his review of “Fringe Benefits: Cosmopolitan Dynamics of a Multicultural...
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Photo(s) du jour: Red Light District
Back in the winter, when Montreal was a completely different city, I interviewed lighting designer Axel Morgenthaler about his work in the Quartier des...
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Photo du jour: Colonial
Montreal is often compared to Boston, in the kind of good twin/evil twin way, but it’s rare to find any sort of American colonial architecture here...
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Montreal’s public washrooms
La Presse has taken upon itself to evaluate the state of Montreal’s public washrooms. While this might seem, in some respects, like an exercise in...
By Christopher DeWolf