Battlewar: the freaky bloodbath that wasn’t
Last Sunday, Foufounes Électriques hosted Battlewar VI, an event that, Brian Hastie writes, showed spectators exactly what Quebec’s amateur wrestling scene is all about.
Head & Hands aims to revive street worker program
Last year, Head & Hands got its funding cut for a street work program that helped NDG’s youth with a variety of problems, including hard drug use and abusive conditions for sex workers. Now, the organization has entered an online contest to help bring the program back.
Today’s Sounds: Converge
The latest LP by Converge, a new track by Montrealer Pat Jordache and a supposedly NSFW video by Sigur Rós.
City scavenging
This weekend, eight teams will race around the city trying to accomplish crazy — but not quite impossible — tasks as part of a city-wide scavenger hunt. Just how many steamies can they cram into their faces?
Spooky Sounds: Zombies, witches & menacing weather
Scare your roommates, parents, pets, neighbours, trick-or-treaters and yourself with these classic horror themes, and a video that some have called the 21st century’s “Thriller.”
Today’s Sounds: Bat for Lashes
The new record by Bat for Lashes + an audacious track by Chicago’s King L & a taste of what Swans have in store for Montreal tonight.
Sonny Assu takes modern approach to First Nations art
Cult MTL talks to the recent Montreal transplant about his art, his new hometown and what he hopes to learn from Quebecois indigenous culture.
Today’s Sounds: Dethklok
The new record by your favourite animated metal band plus an unreleased track by Roc Marciano and the new video by Wild Nothing.
Q&A with Steve Roggenbuck
Poet Steve Roggenbuck is a polarizing figure to those in the know. He eschews traditional tenets of grammar and spelling (his website URL, for example, is www.livemylief.com), he sometimes rambles non-sensically, his often nasally delivery on his numerous YouTube videos can grate and detractors paint him as a self-aggrandizing figure who cares more about […]
Serving up sex-ed
Bars and restaurants around the city will be a little emptier on Sunday as staff from over 30 establishments around the island converge on Jeanne-Mance Park to face off in the seventh annual SERVE Bars and Restaurants Beach Volleyball Tournament.