American Apparel has decided to help us spend our hard earned money, how generous. Find your Halloween costume using this nifty web app:
AA Costume Designer.
 
N.B. This has got to be the scariest Shaggy and Scooby-Doo team ever.

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The newly opened Emporium Gallery in St Henri hosted a vernisage for the Vice magazine sponsored Heavy Metal In Baghdad exhibit. The Show runs until Sunday the 28th of October.
The Emporium Gallery is located at 3035 st Antoine Ouest, in Studio 74
Extended showing hours 11am – 8pm
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“All I see is crosses.” Wow, what a show. Justice performed with total high energy for a great set. Seeing is believing.
Justice played on Oct 19, 2007, with the Midnight Juggernauts at 9:30 and Busy P at 12:30, both shows were sold out at the Métropolis. Both shows were also amazing.

Métropolis
59 Sainte-Catherine Street East, [...]

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Louis Rastelli has been a longtime comrade, commentator and curator to the Montreal arts scene. He has brought us the fabulous zine Fish Piss (RIP) , created an art dispensing vending machine called the Distroboto, organizes events such as Expozine , and has been published in Saturday Night, Vice, and the Montreal Mirror.
Last Tuesday, friends [...]

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DHC/ART is Montreal’s newest contemporary art gallery. Opened this October, 2007, the place is stunning and is itself worthy of artistic merit.
Running until January 6, 2008, is an exhibition featuring Marc Quinn, a controversial conceptual artist and a member of the YBA’s (Young British Artists). Quinn’s work is shockingly poignant in respect to [...]

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Boutique Three Monkeys had another party. Free booze, beautiful people, cool styles, and collages… can’t go wrong with that mix. Speaking of mixes, the man behind the decks, one of the Monkeys himself, Mike Casali is always a pleasure to be an audience for.
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The Politically charged work of Mathieu Beauséjour is on display at the Darling Foundry gallery. The installation titled Monument is a reflection of the global political state and it’s resistance. The artist redresses recognizable objects tat would normally be found outdoors and places them indoors, thereby challenging the legitimacy of the ideas proposed by [...]

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According to their website, M for Montreal’s mandate is to showcase Montreal’s top “export ready” bands. Here are my totally biased picks for best of M for Montreal 2007:
And the winner is – We are Wolves.
M for Montreal is a contest and the official winner was We are Wolves (Nous Sommes Loups). I [...]

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Puces Pop is back with a hundred and one artists and designers bringing you a home made soup of talents and events… and lots and lots of things to by.
Activities, Toys, Foods, Clothes, Housewares, Readables, Wrtitables, Aweables, and maybe even some Shockables too. Fun for the whole family.
When: October 6th & 7th, 2007
Where: Canadian [...]

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Montreal is at odds, this time with Perth, Australia. International street style contest STREET CLASH pits cities head to head in an ultimate fight to the finish for the recognition of best dressed city. Montreal has been honored this week with a picture by MTL STREET

Update: Montreal has won day 1 + 2, [...]

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