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Well-loved Montreal barmaid dies
Many Montrealers are stunned by the death of a well-loved and popular barmaid from the Musique nightclub last weekend. Pamela Rojas, 27, worked her shift Saturday and simply failed to show up...
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CDN/NDG borough puts Snowdon Theatre up for sale
The historic Snowdon Theatre, which was boarded up and neglected by its owners, the borough of Cote des Neiges/Notre Dame de Grace has been put up for sale. The landmark structure once long housed...
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Montreal's most disappointing intersections
Busy Decarie and Sherbrooke comes up lacking Urban intersections are the most important part of any city's landscape. Street corners need to be four-pointed joyous monuments of glory. They must uplift...
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Chez Francis: Dorval strip club could be next go to
The Chez Francis strip club on Cote de Liesse at Halpern in Dorval could be the next domino to fall in the ongoing closures of Montreal strip clubs. The building and property have been for sale for...
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Ste Anne de Bellevue's furtive fines tossed out by municipal court judge
Big victory today for the rights of Montrealers. A municipal court judge has tossed out $7,843 in fines issued by the City of Ste. Anne de Bellevue.City inspectors failed to contact a landlord...
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Montreal business magnate recalls days as drunken brawler in one of West...
Frank O'Dea is best known as the alcoholic panhandler who somehow became a business magnate as co-founder of the Second Cup cafe chain. O'Dea's biographyWhen All You Have Is Hope recounts how he grew...
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Villainous Montrealer persuades mistress to kill wife, then kills her
Photoshop collage reenactment of Langlais killing Rita Genest Here's the tale of the horribly manipulative Roland Genest who persuaded his girlfriend to kill his wife at their home at 3455 Gascon Ave....
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Doritos assailed for refusing to make ketchup chips permanent
A sinister warning atop a package of potato chips has been causing anxiety among a small (very small indeed- Chimples) group of Montrealers. The warning comes atop the Doritos Ketchup flavoured...
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Montreal homes more costly: prices spike in latest study
Depressing news for Montrealers, the latest Demographia Housing Affordability Study demonstrates that after two years on the decline, Montreal home prices have risen sharply. The unaffordability...
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Where have all Montreal biker bunkers gone?
Huron Street home of the Rock Machine Steel doors, bulletproof windows and video cameras were once a thing on some houses in Montreal, as biker gangs transformed normal homes into fortresses built to...
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Montreal in the spring: what it's like
We feel entitled to warmth on St. Patrick's Day after suffering through the inevitable Valentine's Day chill but the hopes of a warm green day are usually dashed by bitter winds with no intention of...
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Montreal's top 6 vacant lots: how they've survived in their bountiful glory
For decades a few choice vacant lots have had property developers slobbering like a soccer mom at a male strip club. But the price is apparently not right and as a result nothing ever sprouts up on...
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Banned in Quebec: Movies we were protected from
Nowadays anybody watches any type of weird thing as many times as they want for free on the internet, including extreme violence and any consensual sex involving adults and nothing too terrible...
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Italmelodie: Legendary Montreal music store closes after decades in Little Italy
Italmelodie, a precious resource appreciated by every type of local musician from headbangers to synth pop tunesters has closed after decades of selling musical instruments on Jean Talon just east...
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Sex trade politics: why Canada should not spiral into anti-pimp panic
Pimping. That was the charge being laid on the young man sitting in the front of a Montreal courtroom filled with 700 people last spring. The upcoming trial led Quebec's Justice Ministry to cattle...
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Black market buttocks: the Montrealer with a giant, fake bottom
There's a young woman about town modeling a unique body feature that has been catching eyes. The woman, a petite blonde, Caucasian French Canadian woman in her 20s boasts a physical attribute nobody...
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Lap dancing deemed criminal: Montreal police crackdown claims longstanding...
A Decarie Blvd. strip club has lost its right to provide nude entertainment due to a 2011 legal decision that deems lap dancing to be a form of prostitution. The decision could lead to the demise of...
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Plateau tavern closes after 80 years: sudsy legacy killed by noise complaint
nightlife.ca Eighty years of tavern history is coming to a close as the Inspecteur Epingle Tavern, a Plateau establishment at St. Hubert and Duluth, closes after the first cold brew was served there...
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Bill Wong restaurant heirs battle it out in court
Bill Wong's longstanding legendary Chinese restaurant closed in 2006 and the old man died in 2014 at 93, but the minor restaurant buffet empire he launched has since become the source of much...
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Death of a bon vivant: Man-about-town Mike Widger no more
Former Montreal Alouette Mike Widger passed away a few days ago of undisclosed causes in Camden, New Jersey, aged 67. Widger was more than a football player in Montreal, he was a well-loved local...
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