Sept 22, 2009 is the seventh edition of the “In town without my car” day in Montreal. Part of Downtown will be closed off for cars.
On the plus side, there is a printable coupon available for free transit rides, click here (link is to a .pdf file).

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Montreal’s Music Guru, Kilroy, has released a long awaited version Nø3 of his infamous mixtape / playlist.
quoted from the Guru Energy blog:
“Check out this week’s work vibe – dubbed “DiscoConditioned Stell’R Rock Mix” – here. It’s an upbeat blend of everyone from M.I.A. to Metric to Iggy Pop plus some high-energy remixes of artists like [...]

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Somehow I missed this one till now.  Marilis Cardinal, a.k.a. the sweetest person ever, mentioned me in a blog post on NightlifeMagazine.ca,
Montreal Fashion Week Diary Part I
“We end the evening with the Godmother of Quebec Fashion: Marie St-Pierre. The room is packed and yours truly has to stand. Everyone is taller then me, I’m tired [...]

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So the mighty iPhone has finally been officially released in Canada, and today it went on sale for the first time.  Here’s a pic of what the FIDO store on the corner of St. Urbain and Mont Royal looked like at 10 AM.

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Here’s a fun little video of some nice girl’s walk through the Metro and some streets, right here in Montreal. Yay!

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This a cool video time lapse of the tent, aka the Satosphere, being put up outside the SAT for the last Festival du Nouveau Cinema which took place October 10-21, 2007.

This is a 3D rendering of what it looked like:

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LynxEyeDotCA has been very kind to us freezing Montrealers by giving us a bit of delight in our painstaking winter misery. Check out this time lapse video montage of a humble car owner fighting against our climate’s cruel wrath. The video features some nice music too, it’s Hungarian Dance No. 5.
Video by: [...]

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This is ridiculous: http://thedrinkman.ca
This company will deliver drinks to you anywhere on the island of Montreal. Orders are accepted online 24/7, oh theres this one thing you should know “*Delivery may take up to 24HRS” -Right.
A ‘customers testimonial’
““The Drinkman is so [...]

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The Gazette ran an article on Motel Canada‘s potential closing. Does anyone really care? According to the article Roxane Arseneault does, she’s writing her thesis on Quebec’s Culture of Kitsch. Hmmm… still does anyone care? The folks over at Urban Photo might, they wrote an article titled “Save Our Cities [...]

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Boutique SubV is having a 3 for 2 sale during the month of November. Oh my, that’s like totally NOW!?!
SubV Boutique
5666 Sherbrooke West (just west of Decarie)
514-485-4489
(closed Monday and Tuesday)

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Photos by nantel
This plane is a pretty big deal being it is the BIGest ever built for commercial passenger use. The Airbus A380 can seat up to 853 people people in “legs crunched up” a.k.a. fully economy class or 525 passengers in a three-class configuration. Some of the coolest things [...]

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This Picture was taken less than a week ago and is probably already out of date (anyone know of otherwise?). Yes folks, it is the one and only exchange rate sign from our favorite smoked meat salon: Schwartz Hebrew Delicatessen. It almost feels like 1930 is back, when a sandwich only [...]

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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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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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