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Last night I watched the documentary, Chez Schwartz (2007). It’s a film by Garry Beitel, the professor from my Canadian Documentary class at McGill, and a Montreal-based filmmaker who has worked on numerous independent documentaries (often for TeleQuebec) that narrow in on particular communities and individuals. Chez Schwartz is a film about the 75 year-old [...]

Over the course of running the Outdoor Site (read: Beer Tent) at the 18th edition of the Ste-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival I was able to snap a few shots of the goings on around the tent. The Indyish Mess, Pop Montreal, pancake breakfasts, improv, stand up, buskers, fringe artists, shenanigans, volunteers, staff, groupies, musicians, lovers [...]

Well, we did two MonthlyMess’s at the Main Hall, and I hesitated to write this ‘Venue Story’ because we’ve said a lot about the Main Hall here at Indyish over the past year and half since we had our launch weekend there, August 2006. Explore the tags way below, you’ll see what I mean, and [...]

If you’re going to photowalk with 4 of the funniest people in Montreal, please take note:

Bring a tripod. Gut-wobbling guffaws lead to blurry photos.
Bring earplugs. While you’re photographing one of ‘em, the rest will be behind you, airing their sometimes rude, often hilarious & always insightful observations about the subject squirming before [...]

Scene: Evening on the corner of Pine avenue and The Main, in front of a dépanneur. Three classy ladies in busty corsets, flouncy skrits and bowler hats stand basked in the glow of a street lamp. A couple of scruffy-faced men in slick suits slouch in the background carrying dark & mysterious instrument [...]