Culture
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Photo du jour: Public housing; public art
A mural in Villeray on the side of Les Habitations Saint-Georges, a public housing complex for the elderly. Created by Dominique Desbiens of MU Art in...
By Devin Alfaro -
SDA Backpedals on Lower Main Redevelopments
Breaking News: The three new buildings proposed by Société Dévelopment Angus on Boulevard Saint-Laurent will be smaller and longer in coming than...
By Alanah Heffez -
Public art & public space seminar next week
Click on poster for higher resolution Next week, the Urban Planning Association at Concordia University will be hosting a seminar focusing on public art...
By Chris Erb -
Coups de Coeurs: Les hymns Québec Montréal
Best. Reality TV Show. Ever. Not that it’s a very high bar. But since the masses have proven we’re ready to get riled up by any possible...
By Alanah Heffez -
The Lower Main’s Last Stand
This January, the Société de Développement Angus acquired two properties on Saint-Laurent and Ste-Catherine: Main Importing Grocery and building that...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du jour – Copernicus
A monument to Nicolaus Copernicus, inaugurated as part of Exo ’67 and installed at its present location in Chaboillez Square in 1975. The plaque...
By Devin Alfaro -
Photo du Jour : Buskers Unite
A poster seen last Tuesday in Bonaventure metro announces the Annual General Assembly of the “Regroupement des Musiciens du Metro de...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour – Pic et Pelle
Germain Bergeron’s sculpture at Monk metro station, entitled Pic et Pelle, pays homage to all the construction workers who contributed to building...
By Alanah Heffez -
Art de poteau
J’ai trouvé ces plaques montées sur trois poteaux d’électricité sur l’avenue de l’Esplanade entre les rues Bernard et...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Coups de Coeur: Michel Tremblay’s Grosse femme d’à coté
Image: Rue Fabre près de Laurier cc François Hogue In the early nineties, my dad lived on Rue Fabre, just above Avenue Mont Royal. He was working a day...
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Pigeon Toes + Wet Cement
“City pigeons are the product of domestication – but exist somewhere between tame and wild. Their traces in wet cement remind us that human and...
By Alanah Heffez -
La ville est un cinéma pornographique
« L’amour est à réinventer. » – Arthur Rimbaud Le Cinéma L’Amour fête ses 40 ans aujourd’hui avec un concert de The Hellbound Hepcats et la...
By Émile Thomas