• Alanah Heffez takes us among the 200,000 Montrealers who witnessed Stevie Wonder at the Quartier des Spectacles last week. ‘Packing our public spaces with crowds and tunes,’ argues Heffez, ‘is part of the defining Montreal experience.’
• Check out this shipping container/lobster restaurant by world-famous designer Sid Lee. Called the Mà¼vbox, this solar-powered shipping crate transforms itself to an open-air seafood diner in under two minutes and may be dotting Montreal’s landscape in the near future.
• Robert Polidori’s new exhibit at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal may just be worth the 5 hour train ride this week. His controversial photos of abandoned architecture and uninhabited homes includes shots from Chernobyl, Beirut, Havana and post-Katrina New Orleans.
Photo by FA MAS