{"id":1118,"date":"2008-07-15T20:44:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T01:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/07\/15\/dancing-in-the-streets\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:24:24","slug":"dancing-in-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/07\/15\/dancing-in-the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing in the streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e-2EuNC5ejk[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>One of my favourite things about summer in Montreal is the sheer abundance of street closures. Of course, they aren&#8217;t closures at all, they&#8217;re openings &#8212; streets given over to pedestrians. This past weekend, cars were banned from at least seven areas, including most of the streets in the Latin Quarter, all of Ste. Catherine St. in the Village, Plaza St. Hubert, Crescent St. and, most impressively, the entire two-kilometre stretch of Ste. Catherine from St. Urbain to St. Marc. Although it was pouring rain for most of Sunday, Saturday was a perfect day to get out and explore the city, which is exactly what I did.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t alone: streets everywhere were thronged with people. I spent most of the afternoon wandering down a sweltering Ste. Catherine St., stopping every so often to take in the passing crowd. Unlike some other street fairs, like Nuit Blanche sur Mont-Royal or Main Madness, the annual Ste. Catherine street sale is primarily a commercial event, closing up shop in the early evening and populated mostly by people hunting for bargains. But there are still buskers and DJs on hand to keep people entertained. Outside the Eaton Centre, where a DJ was blasting music into the crowd, one woman set down her shopping bags to dance in the street. <\/p>\n<p>While I was downtown, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fagstein.com\">Fagstein<\/a> was checking out the street fair on St. Hubert in the Petite Patrie. &#8220;While there are many boring old regular places selling stuff (wallets, sandals and suitcases are never in short supply), there are also plenty of strange shops you\u2019d never go into. Their stuff gets displayed, allowing you to pay attention without committing or having an awkward conversation with a store employee,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fagstein.com\/2008\/07\/13\/street-sale-mania\/\">he wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fagstein.com\/2008\/07\/13\/street-sale-mania\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fagstein.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/crowd1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fagstein.com\/2008\/07\/13\/street-sale-mania\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fagstein.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/bmo.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>&#8220;Some places feel they can\u2019t be left out. Like the Bank of Montreal, which setup a table with forms on it. Awesome.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[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 closures. Of course, they aren&#8217;t closures at all, they&#8217;re openings &#8212; streets given over to pedestrians. 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