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Old Horse-tail at Drummy and Dorch to get new image
All you Krauts and wannabe lederhosen-wearers have been asking me where they can go to have a nice stein of cold Krautbrau but only end up weeping on the floor when I say there's not much action in...
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Fighting boredom in the gay village
I'm not a huge fan of the gay village, an area which claims a title of diversity but is really just full of 60 year old male pervs and Hydro Quebec retirees eyeing each other in boredom. This...
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What to do when you see a green onion giving you a parking ticket near a meter
The best way to save the $52 fine Montreal lays on motorists who arrive just as a meter maid (meter master?) is slapping a ticket on your car is not to beg, bribe, threaten, entreaty, charm (Ok.....
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Horrible crimes from 1986
Richard Aubin was horrified when he got his shovel out to fix some basement drains in a house he was gutting at 5012 Ste. Marie in Little Henry's on Tues. Aug. 12, 1986. What he found was a...
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Why you should vote for Michel "Crazy like a fox" Benoit for mayor
The preposterous photo at left shows mayoral candidate Michel Benoit, who is easily recognized because he has a huge name tag around his neck, sneaking up alongside Premier Pauline Marois at the...
View ArticleBilly the Whistler hits Queen Mary
Not every bum makes it to Coolopolis. This ain't no mook life. But Billy the Whistler just can't be denied. I know making it to the front page of Coolopolis might be a little too much joy for this...
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Cities green-roof their highways while Montreal dozes
One thine the west end needs? More separatists. No, seriously. The western part of the city of Montreal never attracts major government investment or any other political goodies because it is a...
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Requiem to a wall: our simplest, cheapest, most overlooked urban recreational...
A plain wall is a beautiful thing for a neighbourhood.Roslyn School once had a good tennis wallThe one thing every neighbourhood needs and nobody ever thinks of giving 'em is: a wall. That's...
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Statue park on Sherbrooke: did it exist?
Did I imagine one of the neatest places from my early childhood? Was the statue park next to the Chateau Versailles Hotel on Sherbrooke just something I dreamed up? Because I've never heard...
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Montreal's next number one hunk
Montreal women and girls and other aficionados of attractive men might have been feeling a void ever since de facto reigning hunk Carey Price lost steam among lonely hearts by getting married,...
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Where was this?
Me and this building? It was love at first sight.Although it's from a bye-bye-gone era, it was designed with a very currently-looking frontage that showcased a couple of floors at once.
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Montreal horror: inside a highly-secretive mental institution
These slightly-unusual postcards showing the interior of the St. Jean de Dieu mental hospital show a part of a secretive and sometimes-horrific world. Some accounts have it that the St. Jean de...
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Montreal needs underground bike parking
Part of the many inconveniences of riding a bike include the issue of parking the darn thing. Here in Montreal there's a - I'd say - a 35% chance that somebody will knock it down onto the sidewalk, a...
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Pics to ponder
The Bonsecours church on Common street has never been mentioned as an important local landmark other than in the song Suzanne by Leonard Cohen. One possible reason: it has been drabified and left...
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Musings on the four new proposed metro stations..
I was being asked 'bout what I think about the plans to put new metros further into the east end. Now some might think that it's a giant ripoff that the metros would be built to the east while...
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They run, you elect them and they sit: Quebec's provincial politicians get...
Here's an article I wrote in the Gazette two years ago about the exercise habits of our MNAs.I wrote it in hopes of encouraging people to become fit. So get on it guys! ------ They run for office...
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More inexplicably urgent traffic proposals from the 50s
As it is now The city desperately needed four new elevated overpasses in May 1959 or else the head of Traffic Director Jean Lacoste might have exploded. The fancy, curvy thing pictured above was...
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Montreal's demolished neighbourhoods in heartbreakingly sad photo sets
St. Elizabeth, just south of de Maisonneuve, now demolished for a parking lot for the poor In case you hadn't noticed, there are now hundreds of photos newly posted online of Montreal neighbourhoods...
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Doodle of Montreal artist expected to fetch half a million
A little drawing done of Montreal filmmaker/actor/painter/Coolopolis contributor Stephen Lack, who sadly left us for New York after making a coupla cult klassik flicks, has gone up for auction....
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Smoking can wreck your TV
Small claims court, in my view, is a warehouse for the disgruntled who feel scarred by some perceived unfairness meted onto them by the world. I've watched many cases and would love to tell you that...
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