Tag Archive for the term: plateau

Where do you crash when you’re playing a show in a random city?
Some friend’s couch/floor/balcony.
Where do people stay on the Plateau when they’re visiting Montreal?
Expensive bed and breakfasts.
That’s changing. For months, the people who brought you Casa del Popolo and Sala Rossa have been labouring away on a new addition to the family. And finally, [...]

Remember I mentioned the public art garden making going down last weekend here in Mile End, Montreal, to symbolically claim a neighborhood field? Well here are photos of the gesture, looking lovely against the first snow, and notes on the progress of the project. I’ve also attached a recording by a local peace loving band, [...]

Are you, like Alanah, looking for a way to exert joyful earthy energy? This weekend do it here in the Mile End, Montreal neighborhood while making an eerily apt symbolic claim for a public garden.

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large-scale garden project // take back green space !! // friday 23+saturday 24// 2007
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According to cleanliness laws in the Plateau Montreal, it is illegal to stick, staple or nail anything to public property. Like the other boroughs that address postering, the Plateau lumps “affichage sauvage” together with graffiti and tagging. This betrays the city’s complete failure to grasp the role of postering, and to address and regulate it in a relevant way.

Tonight, a typical Friday in Montreal, has plenty of options for sampling the sweetness of the city. You could roam and happen upon good shows and vibes or you could head straight into 2 Scenes for a direct sampling of the kinds of community building that have helped make the city a buzz, a flutter, [...]

Environmental issues got you down on this enviro-themed blog-action day? Maybe it’s time to stop trying to see the world in green.
In 2003, after spending three years completing a degree in environmental science, I felt like I had learned just about every way that things on this planet had, could and would go catastrophically wrong.
It [...]

I was out recording this week’s Reading pod thinger when I had a conversation that turned into an interesting opportunity for Indyish members in Montreal. James, with whom I record the Reading podcasts, is working on launching his own recording studio at home. It seems he’s slowly evolving the living room into a homebrew [...]

Fringe ‘07 had a mere few hours left of life, and Alanah, Sylvain and I were staking out our turf to the bitter end. We blog LIVE from the Indyish Tent, bringing you the … Top ten non-human rock stars of the St Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival of 2007, according to your faithful Fringyishers.
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Yay! A Birthday party for old pals and allies, awesome local indie boutique in our neighborhood, General 54!
Talk about supporting a local arts scene; the crew from General and sister store Local 23 are known throughout the Mile End Plateau district here in Montreal for their smart collections of only local indie designers. Up at [...]