Photo du jour: Garment district

Casgrain Street looking north towards the Mile End garment district. May 12, 2008

Montrealers’ fourth-favourite blog

The results of the Mirror’s annual popularity contest are in and Montrealers have voted Spacing Montreal as the fourth-best blog in Montreal. We...

Montage du jour : Les condos Beauxarts

2004-2008 Les condominiums Beauxarts, se situent au coin des rues Sherbrooke et St-Mathieu. Amorcé en 2004, cet ambitieux projet consistait à préserver la...

Photo du jour: May flowers

Place Ville-Marie looking up McGill College. May 14, 2008

Salon du livre anarchiste

QUOI: Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal QUAND: samedi 17 mai et dimanche 18 mai OÙ: CEDA, 2515 rue Delisle (métro Lionel-Groulx) Le salon annuel du...

Spring revelations

One of my favourite passages from Leonard Cohen comes from his 1966 novel Beautiful Losers. “In Montreal spring is like an autopsy,” he wrote...

A publicity stunt “with a life of its own”

When I wrote on Sunday about the Mouvement boulevard Lucien-Rivard, I mused that the campaign to rename the Main after the 1960s gangster was one of the...

Montage du jour : le cimetière de la rue Papineau

1895-2008 Sous le parc des vétérans à l’intersection de l’avenue Papineau et de la rue Lafontaine reposent 2 anciens cimetières protestants...

Photo du jour : La maison Redpath

Toronto Tuesday : thinkToronto competition, Books set in Toronto, and Laundromats

Each Tuesday, Spacing Montreal will share with you some posts from our sister blog, Spacing Toronto. We hope it will enable constructive dialogue on the...

Montage du jour : La rue St-Urbain

1915-2008

Photo du jour: St. Paul afternoon

St. Paul St. just east of St. Laurent, May 7, 2008