Entries from March 2009

March 31, 2009

Ono meets Montreal

Tonight marks the opening of The Peace Ballad of John and Yoko at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, an exhibition honouring and dedicated to their peace protest and Bed-in, which took place 40 years ago at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. An event that toured part-way-around the world and yielded iconic photographs of the long-haired [...]

March 16, 2009

Virtually Bound

I love a good book. A book with a great cover I love even more. Shallow as that sounds, it’s the truth. Covers are like clothes (they call it a dust jacket for a reason) it’s the first thing you notice.  And just as clothes help to shape our immediate impressions of the person wearing [...]

March 8, 2009

Amber Albrecht

Last Saturday was Nuit Blanche here in Montreal, which is basically all about drinking too much, staying up too late and gallery hopping. This was my third year going out and it can be a real hit or miss, it all depends on timing, what you decide to see, how much free alcohol you find [...]