Culture

Montreal chef Nantha Kumar spices things up at Plateau restaurant Cash and Curry

Patricia Pearson’s personal narratives won’t put your mind at ease

Talk of the Montreal indie sound that pioneered in the early 2000s by bands such as The Unicorns has been rendered acutely obsolete. Online dissemination… Read More »We come in peace: Montreal’s Alien8 recordings

Local author Andrew Hood delves into the gritty side of small-town Ontario in his debut short story collection Pardon Our Monsters

Japan’s National Film Center is not afraid to air its dirty laundry in an anime retrospective at the Cinémathèque Québecoise

A Silver Mt. Zion helped make their neighbourhood the cultural Mecca it is today. On their new album, they do something unexpected – apologize.

I’m lying in bed, reading, and my girlfriend George (short for Georgina) is there beside me, reading too. Suddenly, I laugh out loud. George turns… Read More »The Hipless Boy: Killing, eating

Every few years, a cult classic emerges from the morass of contemporary Canadian film. In 2002 it was Men With Brooms; last year, it was… Read More »No hockey allowed in Canada’s next cult film, Rock, Paper, Scissors

There’s something tragic about monuments built to an optimism that faded decades ago. The Soviet Union’s contribution to Expo ‘67, for instance: a large, concrete… Read More »Remembrance of times past: This is Montreal!

All the school is a stage While most students are buckling down for term papers and finals right now, the actors, directors and theatre nerds… Read More »Culture Briefs

What happens when you combine a former Los Angeles b-boy, a classically-trained ballet dancer, and a lot of buzz? You get Rubberbandance Group (RBDG), the… Read More »Rubberbanddance’s new act

DJ XL5’s film collage plays with the wacky beginnings of the music video

In the third installment of The Daily’s four-part series on cultural tastemakers in Montreal,

CBC Radio 2 is kicking classical music off primetime in an effort to woo younger audiences

Prague artist’s exhibit at Parisian Laundry is inspired by the personal changes he’s undergone while living in Canada