Coolopolis snags the only living photo of the Swiss Hut on Sherbrooke and...
After years of searching high and low and far and wide, a photo of the Swiss Hut has emerged from a cave in the jungles of outer Boirsbriand and peacefully surrendered to heavily-armed cowboy...
View ArticleFuture Electronics billionaire owner Robert Miller - how a lifelong pal mused...
Seventy-nine-year-old Montreal's Future Electronics billionaire Robert Miller has recently been accused of having sex with underaged girls many times over the years. A few years ago I researched Miller...
View ArticleWell-known downtown banana bandit is no more
Perry Brian West, who became well-known for patroling the downtown Montreal area of St. Catherine near Bishop and Crescent streets wielding a banana as a comical way to solicit cash, has died in Nova...
View ArticleWhy'd they go and kill Jewell Langford, theTenneesee spa owner here in Montreal?
A guy named Rodney Nichols, now aged 81, allegedly killed Jewell Langford in 1975 and dumped her body into the South Nation River west of Montreal. Nicholas lives in Florida and now faces extradition...
View ArticleWhen Tony Bennett bought art with his fur coat in Montreal
There's a story that has floated around for decades about Tony Bennett visiting Montreal in the 1950s. Here's the story: Bennett happened to come to a small jazz cafe in NDG in the West End of Montreal...
View ArticleTruth is stranger than fiction: Post Malone and Joe Rogan rave over veteran...
Veteran Montreal stripper and sex video performer Fedha Sinon was so broke as recently as 2019 that she got booted from her West Island apartment for failing to pay rent. Now against all odds, she...
View ArticleMessy homewecking fiasco followed by murder: the story of Mario Taddeo,...
Mario Taddeo and wife Geraldine A man wearing a children’s Halloween mask stormed into a construction office trailer at a quarry in Mirabel on a December morning in 1987. He flashed his gun and...
View ArticleGentle Montreal cops light cigarette for murder suspect in 1956 Montreal slaying
Ernest Lanthier, 50, was arrrested for stabbing his roommate Edward Cross, 72, to death in his room on the fourth floor of 67 Craig W., which was a rooming house, on April 13, 1956. He told a jury in...
View ArticleExclusive: Marilyn Monroe ranks attractiveness of our Montreal Canadiens...
"Marilyn Monroe's Montreal Canadiens Roster Attractiveness Review: From James Dean to Habs Dreams"by Marilyn Monroe**As a devoted fan of the Montreal Canadiens since the days of Toe Blake, my love for...
View ArticleMontreal boxer Eddy Nolan ends life with government injection
Eddy Nolan, a much-loved janitor at Roslyn School who also starred as a boxer from the Shamrock Boxing Club at Wellington and Shearer in Point St. Charles for a few years in his youth, has died at the...
View ArticleLegendary rock promoter's crazy story about sex and drugs in Montreal in 1957
Simon Napier-Bell, best known as the swinging London hipster who managed the Yardbirds in the 1960s, has a crazy story about being in Montreal in 1957. Napier-Bell is now 84 and sharing stories about...
View ArticleSte. Catherine Street East 2001 - a walk through the poor part of town
Slumming on St-Catherineby KRISTIAN GRAVENORI like slumming and I figure one of our most gratifying local ghetto strolls starts at Ste-Catherine and Iberville because of the undeniably gross Loud...
View ArticleMontreal's Top 10 modern-era bar brawlers
These characters are all discussed in my upcoming book Want In? You're In. The West End Gang Story.10 - Murray Jones (1940-1981) Stick up man and street fighter from the St. Antoine Street area. Went...
View ArticleFuture Electronics billionaire owner Robert Miller - how a lifelong pal mused...
Seventy-nine-year-old Montreal's Future Electronics billionaire Robert Miller has recently been accused of having sex with underaged girls many times over the years. A few years ago I researched Miller...
View ArticlePaul Payne gunned down in LaSalle
Paul Payne in 1989 Paul Payne, 55, opened the door to a hail of bullets at his home on Airlie St near Behrens in LaSalle, Wednesday at about 1 am. One or more gunmen apparently shot Payne five times,...
View ArticleKenny Maskal survived elevator shaft freefall and later beat biker gang with...
Kenny Maskal from Verdun got hired by Otis elevator, in Montreal in the 1970s. The union run by Chuck Canning was full of tough guys. Kenny's first day on the job was a harsh one. He had an argument...
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