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Montreal International Black Film Festival: Matinik Natty Dreads

Matinik Natty Dreads is a documentary about Rastafarians in Martinique, which is not an independent country but an overseas “department” of France. The movie is being shown as part of the Montreal...

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Montreal International Black Film Festival: Golden Scars

Reasons to watch Golden Scars: to see how other people are living, surviving, making music, pursuing their dreams, to hear the rhythms of Cuban Spanish, to get a few glimpses of beautiful countryside....

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FNC: The second coming of The First Rasta

Le Premier Rasta is a documentary about Leonard Percival Howell, a major figure in the Rastafarian movement. It’s directed by Hélène Lee, former music journalist for the French newspaper Libération,...

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Sunny and exotic new Madagascar boutique warms up cold Montreal winter

Boutique owner Aina Razafimbahiny with Pierre Marc Johnson and musician Dean Pallen, whose groups Raivo and Rimbonbante performed at the Palais de la Reine opening I don’t usually write about new...

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Festival du nouveau cinéma wins award for being wonderful, avant garde,...

  The Festival du nouveau cinéma  has won the Grand Prix of the Conseil des arts de Montréal, for the “diligence, avant-gardism, originality, and diversity of the festival’s programming” of the...

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Noon-time sit-in on Tuesday will protest cuts to NFB, CBC, Telefilm Canada...

“A people without culture are not a people.” That’s the (translated) rallying cry of people who are upset by the cuts to culture made in the recent federal budget (while tens of billions of dollars...

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Countdown 2013: Art, culture and Montreal’s 375th birthday party

You don’t have to be running for mayor to have a platform. In fact, some of the organizations which work year in and year out to make Montreal a better, livelier, kinder and more prosperous place have...

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$60 million for culture, heritage and libraries in Montreal

Mount Royal, Old Montreal, public art and libraries — in particular the new Côte-des-Neiges — Notre-Dame-de-Grâce library opening in 2016 — are among the main beneficiaries of the renewal of a cultural...

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Stuck in the Middle avec moi: La Voix

Every week Brendan Kelly takes a look at the talk of the town in franco culture ici. What were you doing last Sunday night? You might’ve been watching the hapless Habs lose yet another game. Maybe it...

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Maison Alcan sold for $48 million to company with ties to Laliberté

The Maison Alcan complex on Sherbrooke St. has been sold for $48 million to a company with ties to Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté. Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. sold the buildings on June 29 to Nacla...

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Editor's notebook: Meet new arts columnist Kevin Tierney

I’m pleased to introduce a new columnist who is a familiar face to many Montreal Gazette readers. Kevin Tierney has been a regular subject of articles in the Gazette because of his work as a film and...

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