Lola Rosa Location: 545 Milton Price: $10-$15 per plate If you have not discovered Lola Rosa yet, you should visit soon. Packed from open to close, this bistro is situated in the heart of the ghetto, and serves succulent vegetarian cuisine with both American and international flavours. Lola Rosa offers[Read More…]
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Around the Water Cooler
In case you were too busy moshing, rocking, or slowly nodding your head at POP Montreal, here’s what you missed this past weekend in the world of sports … BASEBALL — With just about a week remaining in the regular season, things are heating up. The National League is fairly[Read More…]
POP Montreal Wrap-up
I don’t order bottle service at clubs. Nor do I have ‘hook-ups,’ know ‘a guy,’ or am part of anything exclusive apart from opt-in emails regarding sales at The Gap. A media pass to POP Montreal was, therefore, a revelation. For those unlucky souls who have yet to step onto[Read More…]
Christopher Smith: Earning Keep
Christopher Smith is more than just a musician. Hailing from Vancouver, Smith began as a visual artist but found the the medium’s boundaries too constricting. Naturally, he transitioned to music, and now works as a singer-songwriter. Moving away from the sound of his previous album, The Beckon Call (2010), Earning[Read More…]
Paper Lions: At Long Creek
Indie-rockers Paper Lions’ new acoustic EP, At Long Creek, is only one of the exciting ventures the Prince Edward Island band is embarking on this year. Other projects include the release of a full-length sophomore album this winter, and the video for their song “Travelling.” At Long Creek is a[Read More…]
The long arm of the law is dripping with blood
“It’s a fucking meatgrinder,” says one soon-to-be meat patty towards the end of Dredd. He is talking about Mega-City One, the dystopian cesspool of violence and despair in which the story is set, but he might as well have been referring to the film itself. At its best, the action[Read More…]
Christopher Hitchens’ last words
When Christopher Hitchens learned that he was the subject of a prematurely written obituary at the outset of 2007, he decided to set down an autobiography before the corrected proof came in. The book came fast on the heels of his bestselling anti-theist tirade, God Is Not Great: How Religion[Read More…]
FEATURE: Pop Montreal Music Preview
For the musically shy, POP Montreal’s surplus of talent can be daunting, if not overwhelming – the annual festival, a landmark on the local calendar for the past decade, boasts over 350 acts wedged into a whirlwind five-day extravaganza. Luckily, the Tribune’s intrepid team has scoured the lineup for you—from[Read More…]
Noodles with tangy peanut sauce
Ingredients ½ box of linguine pasta (or any spaghetti-like pasta) ½ cup shredded cabbage 2 carrots, thinly sliced 1 cup sugar snap peas, trimmed 1 cup bean sprouts Sauce ½ cup smooth peanut butter (all- natural, peanuts only) ½ cup soy sauce, low sodium if you prefer 2 tbsp. rice[Read More…]
Stories worth showing
World Press Photo, journalism’s most prestigious annual photography contest, is currently exhibiting 161 award-winning photos in nine categories at Marché Bonsecours in Old Montreal. The show is part of a travelling exhibition set to tour 100 cities around the globe, and can be visited in Montreal until Sept. 30. “We[Read More…]