Recycling in Montreal
What actually happens to recycling in Montreal? Post the same question in reference to where you live!! Let’s find out what everyone believes and if that differs from what actually…
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Favorite Murals
This is one of my favorite murals in Montreal. The bench and the flower pots are nice bonuses. Across the street from the Frontenac Metro station and the Maison de…
Tour de France 2019
Tour de France. Like the World Cup of soccer, the best of sports on a global scale. Or as my grade 8 teacher, Brother Victor, once referring to soccer as…
Readings of Gordon Matta-Clark
Very hot afternoon. There were some readings of the artist Gordon Matta-Clark‘s notes and letters on the lawn of the Canadian Centre for Architecture today. Really interesting despite the heat.
Surprise in Saint Michel
Finding myself exploring the neighborhood just to the east of the old Miron Quarry, now Parc Frederic-Bach, I stumbled upon a green lane (ruelle vert) right up against the STM…
Calgary Wins Grey Cup!!
Congrats to the Calgary Stampeders for their Grey Cup win tonight! On a personal level my total boycott of the National Football League remains solid. One thing I am really…
Citizen Trump
Watching the Trump years at the White House is like watching Citizen Kane without knowing how it ends, without even knowing what “rosebud” will mean. We are, however, picking up…
New Jam In Verdun
There is currently a jam every Thursday night at 7 at Cafe le 5e on Wellington street in Verdun. Jazz is the point of departure but people are invited to…
Bolsheviki by David Fennario
Read this play last night – brilliant, classic Fennario. Having grown up in the Verdun/Point area his characters tend to send shivers down my spine in their uncanny familiarity and…
hello, yes, this is raincoaster
raincoaster hello yes this is raincoaster So, it’s been awhile, no? For those of you who’ve missed updates at the ol’ raincoaster blog, since the last time this blog was…
Christy Lee Rogers – 2018
I love her work, very Caravaggioesque and certainly reminiscent of Evergon’s giant Polaroids. And she seem to be always taking it up a notch, one of the more interesting working…
Ruth Orkin, An American Girl in Italy, 1951
Iconic photograph often thought to portray the negative experience of women as they walk city streets. Yet the woman photographed, Ninalee Craig, has since said, “At no time was I…
2 Quotes, 1 Motto and a Photograph
I think that the act of reading poetry nowadays is already an archaic, cultural activity. When we read a poem, it is tantamount to going to pioneer village in order…
Charles Moore – Civil Rights Photographer
Charles Lee Moore (March 9, 1931 – March 11, 2010) was an American photographer most famous for his photographs documenting the Civil Rights Movement. Perhaps the most famous of his…
Some Sculptors
Subodh Gupta “Subodh Gupta (born in 1964) is an Indian Contemporary artist based in New Delhi. Trained as a painter, he went on to experiment with a variety of media.…
3 Post-Photographers
Yang Yongliang is a Chinese artist who uses photography and video to create new versions of landscapes and the city. Website Rune Guneriussen is an artist after my own heart,…