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What to do in Montreal today

August 8, 2022 by Cult MTL

The top events in Montreal, daily.

Montreal soccer culture festival GOAL MTL celebrates the beautiful game on Sunday

August 5, 2022 by Dave MacIntyre

The all-day free event promises a mixed-gender match, activities for all ages, live art, music, Premier League matches on a big screen and more.

Our August issue features Denis Shapovalov, who plays the National Bank Open this month

August 4, 2022 by Cult MTL

In play.

CatVideoFest comes to Cinéma du Parc in Montreal on Aug. 15

August 3, 2022 by Matthew Renfrew

See 75 minutes of feline antics on the big screen, for a good cause.

KOOZA by Cirque du Soleil runs through Aug. 14 in the Old Port of Montreal

August 2, 2022 by Matthew Renfrew

The show premiered under the big top in Montreal in 2007, and has been seen by over eight million fans worldwide.

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Valérie Plante: “Montreal is committed to the path of reconciliation”

August 9, 2022 by Lorraine Carpenter

The City of Montreal marks the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

To-Do List: Aug. 8

August 9, 2022 by Cult MTL

The Kid Laroi and la Armada in concert, a First Nations food tasting at the Botanical Gardens, Phenomena Festival’s Dada Cabaret, Stand-up St. Henri & more.

Harley Quinn and The Sandman top streaming charts in Canada

August 9, 2022 by Matthew Renfrew

Here’s what dominated the small screen last week.

City of Montreal calls on Quebec government for year-round housing, shelter space for homeless

August 8, 2022 by Matthew Renfrew

“The real solution to homelessness is through housing and places in shelters that are guaranteed year-round.”

What to do in Montreal today

August 8, 2022 by Cult MTL

The top events in Montreal, daily.

Montreal soccer culture festival GOAL MTL celebrates the beautiful game on Sunday

August 5, 2022 by Dave MacIntyre

The all-day free event promises a mixed-gender match, activities for all ages, live art, music, Premier League matches on a big screen and more.

An inspirational look at Gabor Szilasi, one of the great photographers of Quebec life

May 30, 2022 by Justine Smith

Filmmaker Joannie Lafrenière puts the focus on love and curiosity in the photographer’s work.

A Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition is coming to Montreal next year

December 18, 2021 by Mr. Wavvy

Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will open on Oct. 16, 2022.

Indie opera company trying to reinvigorate a classic form

January 14, 2019 by Dave Jaffer

An independent opera company is aiming to break down the barriers between opera and contemporary audiences.

ARTISTA applications window is still open

December 19, 2018 by Dave Jaffer

Women aged 16-21 with an interest in theatre as an art form, a profession and a community can (and should) apply to Imago Theatre’s free mentorship program.

A new book documents the indie music scene eruption in Montreal & the ROC

July 28, 2022 by Erik Leijon

We spoke with Michael Barclay, the author of Hearts on Fire: Six Years that Changed Canadian Music, ahead of the book’s Montreal launch.

The Maktaba bookstore and boutique in Old Montreal aims to inspire

June 17, 2022 by Lorraine Carpenter

“The concept is a bookshop and boutique, where we can be surrounded by the work of people who inspire us, and therefore offer that inspiration back to the city.”

PHOTOS: Osheaga style 2022

July 30, 2022 by Cult MTL

Osheaga is back, and so is bold festival style.

Montreal Comiccon 2022: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

July 10, 2022 by Cult MTL

Our cosplay gallery features heroes, villains and fantastic beasts of all kinds.

Graffiti artist MONK.E honours late Montreal rapper Jeune Loup with mural

October 14, 2021 by Mr. Wavvy

The 22-year-old rapper was fatally shot in August.

daphne will be Montreal’s first Indigenous artist-run centre

March 5, 2021 by Savannah Stewart

The gallery founders told us about their vision for a meeting place between cultures.

Montreal’s Compulsion Games gets into the ’60s, drugs and dystopia

March 9, 2017 by JUSTINAS STASKEVICIUS

We spoke to the founder of the Compulsion about their new title, We Happy Few.

Tribute Games takes a pixel from the classics

February 4, 2017 by JUSTINAS STASKEVICIUS

We spoke to one of the (ex-Ubisoft) founders of this local indie studio about their exciting new games.

Montreal audiences aren’t ready for jokes about residential schools & the Pope’s apology

July 27, 2022 by Taylor C. Noakes

Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan drew comparisons between the Canadian Indigenous experience and Ireland’s history of colonialism and institutionalized abuse, but his routine was not well received at Just for Laughs.

REVIEW: The Nasty Show could use more filth

July 27, 2022 by Taylor C. Noakes

“Maybe mainstream comedy has become so degenerate that a showcase of humour derived from all that’s putrid and vile doesn’t make sense anymore. That or my polluted millennial mind has spent so much time in the gutter that nothing fazes me.”

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KOOZA by Cirque du Soleil runs through Aug. 14 in the Old Port of Montreal

August 2, 2022 by Matthew Renfrew

The show premiered under the big top in Montreal in 2007, and has been seen by over eight million fans worldwide.

Trixie Mattel at Just for Laughs: “I’m going to say & do anything, & probably be on stage too long”

July 20, 2022 by Erik Leijon

“I’m a queer, small business, and that weird amount of shame that artists have specifically about selling out — I don’t have that bone. If I’m Walt Disney, Trixie is my Mickey Mouse. And that means I’m gonna put this horrorshow on lunchboxes.”

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PHOTOS: Ballets Jazz Montréal is back in full swing this week

June 27, 2022 by Lorraine Carpenter

The dance company is kicking off a summer of shows at Théâtre de Verdure in Parc LaFontaine.

Catherine Gaudet’s dancers step up to power in Les jolies choses

May 28, 2022 by Savannah Stewart

“It’s a journey from something very naive and conformist to something very liberated and powerful,” says Gaudet, whose show is on this week at Festival TransAmériques.

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The Grand Prix in Montreal: The race for sex is on

June 16, 2022 by Ryan Alexander Diduck

Since the Grand Prix is reminding tourists that paying for sex is illegal, we examine three scenarios wherein men come to Montreal and get laid adjacent to the F1.