BBook.com’s Daniel Barna reveals the top hangout spots for hipsters in Montreal.
● Tokyo (Plateau)
● Casa Del Popolo (Mile End)
● Bar Korova (Plateau)
● Euro-Deli (Plateau)
● Green Room (Mile End)
● Blue Dog Motel (Plateau)
● Le Pistol (Plateau)
● Blizzarts (Plateau)
● Saphir (Plateau)
● Bily Kun (Plateau)
In the spring of 2008 on an old hippy commune on a West Coast island, dogs barked, neighbours visited, drinks were poured and the stove religiously stoked. Adorned in scarves and toques and surrounded by a romanticized setting, Victoria natvies Meatdraw and producer Colin Stuart (Black Mountain, Veda Hille), warmed their hands, stood tall and recorded a blazing self-help book about the end of the world.
Check the band out on their cross-country tour:
May 1 The Media Club – Vancouver, BC
May 2 Habitat – Kelowna, BC
May 3 Nanton Auditorium – Nanton, AB
May 4 Palamino – Calgary, AB
May 5 The Exchange – Regina, SK
May 7 Lydia’s – Saskatoon, SK
May 9 The Apollo – Thunder Bay, ON
May 11 Phog Lounge – Windsor, ON
May 12 The Black Shire – London, ON
May 13 The Hive – Kitchener, ON
May 14 Casbah – Hamilton, ON
May 15 Mitzies Sister – Toronto, ON
May 16 The Black Sheep Inn – Wakefield, QC May 17 Le Divan Orange – Montreal, QC
May 18 The Living Room – Kingston, ON
May 21 The Black Dog – Edmonton, AB
Soirée bénéfice au profit de la Fondation de lutte au décrochage scolaire de Montréal
Montréal, le 26 février 2009 – Les Productions A+ dérouleront le tapis rouge, le 19 mars prochain à La Tulipe, pour la première édition de FOREVER YOUNG, une soirée sous la thématique du bal de graduation, au profit de la Fondation de lutte au décrochage scolaire de Montréal. Activités ludiques, musique rétro et actuelle, univers burlesque et robes à paillettes recréeront l’ambiance d’une soirée de graduation de rêve. Venez défiler sur le tapis rouge, danser au son de l’électrisante musique de DJ Plastik Patrik et participer à nos différents concours ainsi qu’au couronnement de la reine et du roi du bal. Animée par la charmante Valérie Roberts et son acolyte Jeff Lizotte de Bombe.TV, FOREVER YOUNG vous offre une occasion en or de donner une deuxième vie à votre tenue de bal!
Danser pour reprendre le « beat »…
Notons que chaque année, depuis 2004, 40% des jeunes montréalais qui quittent l’école n’ont pas de diplôme d’études secondaires. Le bal de graduation représente le couronnement ultime de la réussite scolaire. C’est pourquoi Les Productions A+ misent sur ce thème afin d’amasser des fonds pour la Fondation afin que chaque jeune puisse à son tour aspirer au titre de reine/roi de son bal de graduation.
À propos de la Fondation
La Fondation de lutte au décrochage scolaire de Montréal a été créée, en 1990, par un groupe de partenaires issus du milieu de l’éducation et du monde des affaires. La Fondation a pour objectif général de contribuer à la réussite éducative des jeunes montréalais. À cette fin, elle finance les opérations du Carrefour de lutte au décrochage scolaire, un organisme régional oeuvrant activement auprès des cinq commissions scolaires de l’île de Montréal. Le Carrefour met en place des initiatives de prévention de l’abandon scolaire destinées aux jeunes et aux familles et encourage le partage des pratiques novatrices entre les divers partenaires scolaires, municipaux communautaires et d’affaires de Montréal.
Pour d’autres renseignements: www.fondationlds.qc.ca
FOREVER YOUNG
Jeudi 19 mars 2009, 20 h 30
La Tulipe
4530 Avenue Papineau
Pré vente: 15$ - Porte: 20$
www.soireeforeveryoung.com
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On November 28th, 2008 four jury members gathered at Telio’s head office, the purpose of this meeting was to select the 25 student-finalists that will participate in the upcoming edition of its competition presented during the 16th edition of Montreal Fashion Week on March 5th at the Bonsecours Market. In keeping with its commitment to support young Canadian designers, Télio is pleased to invite these up-and-coming talents to create their high end women’s designs from a pre-selection of fabrics provided by the company. They offer them an opportunity to receive one of five scholarships totalling $10,000 to help launch their budding fashion career. Télio is one of North America’s leading import/export and distribution companies whose textiles are at the cutting edge of fashion.
The 2009 Jury
This year, Télio asked four of the country’s top fashion industry professionals to be a part of the jury for the 2009 National Télio Design Competition. Nathalie Atkinson from Toronto (National Post’s style columnist and contributing fashion editor and freelance writer for Elle Canada, Chatelaine, Flare and Fashion), Glen Baxter from Toronto (Host of IN FASHION, Reporter for FashionTelevisionChannel and photographer), Ruth Ho from Vancouver (buyer for the Canadian by Design department at the Bay downtown Vancouver) and Stéphane Le Duc from Montreal (editor-in-chief of Dress to Kill Magazine) were thrilled to participate. Subsequently, after receiving 116 sketches from 20 participating fashion design schools across Canada, they had to choose the 25 finalists for the 2009 edition of the National Télio Design Competition.
The 2009 Finalists
The jury members judged the students’ sketches based on several criteria, including creativity, technical quality and adherence to the theme chosen for 2009—an exploration of our Canadian values, inspired by the four universal elements, earth, air, fire and water.
Student’s name School
Laurie Jean Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy
Maryline St-Laurent Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy
Stéphanie Beauzile Domond Cégep Marie-Victorin
Christine Charlebois Cégep Marie-Victorin
Alexandre Faulkner Cégep Marie-Victorin
Devon Halfnight Leflufy Collège LaSalle Montréal
Yu-Ting Lin Collège LaSalle Montréal
Ève Simpson-Ranallo Collège LaSalle Montréal
Caroline Amanda Somos Collège LaSalle Montréal
Xinqi Yang Collège LaSalle Montréal
Ruyi Zhou Collège LaSalle Montréal
Isabelle Campeau École Supérieure de mode de Montréal
Nadine Lavoie École Supérieure de mode de Montréal
Lucie Siv École Supérieure de mode de Montréal
Adelaide Kim Ryerson University School of Fashion
Ying-Ju Bianca Liu Ryerson University School of Fashion
Antonia Schindle University of Manitoba
Sarah Sugandy Olds College
Corinne Monique Ludwig University of Alberta
Savannah Qiu The Art Institute of Vancouver
Yvonne Xie The Art Institute of Vancouver
Kidde Itto University of the Fraser Valley
Emily McIntyre University of the Fraser Valley
Katherine Koniecki Vancouver Community College
Marcia Robertson Vancouver Community College
For complementary information on the first National edition of the Télio
Design Competition 2009, please visit www.telio.com.
Who needs that New Years kiss this holiday season to warm you from the top of your head to the tip of your toes when you can do it yourself with yoga that’s poised to help!
On Sunday, December 14 at 5pm at the Walker Studio participate in Bikram Yoga Montreal’s third annual holiday karma class. This typical Bikram yoga class, a challenging series of 26 postures and 2 breathing excercises practiced in a heated room, will leave you feeling fabulous.
Not only will you be benefiting your body, but all the donations will be donated directly to the Share the Warmth Foundation. Share the Warmth Foundation “awakens hope and dreams by overcoming poverty and hunger.” While you suffer in the heat, you’ll be working towards helping someone less fortunate keep warm.
If the thought of helping others warms your heart you can easily help without sweating. Leave a donation with either Bikram Studio.
Bring your friends, family and colleagues to discover a new way to stay healthy while helping others! And who knows…maybe you’ll find your New Years kiss as well.
By now, you’ve probably run into someone familar - within one degree of separation - to either the victim or the perpetrator. Last weekend, early Saturday morning to be precise, 26-year-old Thomas Vernis, owner of Santos restaurant in the Old Port, hit François Dumouchel, alias DJ Euterke, and killed him in a hit and run. Euterke means muse in Greek.
Vernis, who is the son of Old River’s founder Edouard Vernis, was arraigned at the Montreal courthouse Monday afternoon on a charge of hit and run causing death. He faces charges in a fatal hit and run case that could land him anywhere from 2 years to life in prison. Some are suspecting that he might get a sentence on the lower end of that range when he appears in court in August. In the meantime, Vernis was released on $5,000 bail, with the condition that he cannot drive a vehicle and must give up his driver’s licence. He is also ordered to stay home between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., unless absolutely required to be at work. Clubs close at 3am in Montreal.
The 36-year-old Francois Dumouchel was struck and killed at the corner of St-Laurent and Villeneuve. Vernis’ SUV hit his scooter, threw Dumouchel several metres. Vernis, meanwhile, kept going with his SUV, dragging the scooter for six blocks. Allegedly, he got out of his SUV on Esplanade and Rachel to get rid of the scooter. If you are familiar with the city, you know that’s a couple of blocks northbound, a couple West. Vernis was arrested hours later in Old Montreal, at Santos.
The cops didn’t bother to give him a breathalizer, because this was way after the fact, and his results would have been tainted; when was he drinking? Before the hit and run, or afterwards, when he emerged at his bar.
Anyway you dice it, this is sad. People don’t wake up thinking: I’m going to plow through someone on a scooter. On the other hand, no one deserves a death like Dumouchel’s either… who allegedly was sent off by his girlfriend/wife as he crossed that fateful street corner where he met his fate.
Vernis’ fate remains to be determined, according to a story in the Montreal Gazette:
Victor Carillo was parking his car on Villeneuve at the time of the accident. In an interview at his home, he stood up from his couch and pointed to the ceiling to show how high the man flew off his scooter before landing on the sidewalk.
“He was bleeding from his head and his ears,” Carillo said.
He said strangers immediately started giving the man mouth-to-mouth and pumping on his chest.
The driver of the SUV almost hit his wife, who was standing on the sidewalk as the vehicle sped off with the scooter underneath, Carillo said. He said she ducked behind their car and recorded the licence plate number of the SUV and gave it to police.
“If you hit a dog, you stop,” Carillo said. “This guy hit someone and didn’t even slow down.”
Montreal criminal lawyer Marc Giroux said the crown could charge the man with manslaughter, but it is unlikely.
“It’s tougher to prove manslaughter than hit and run causing death, for sure,” he said. In order to show manslaughter, the crown would have to prove that the driver was driving fast with the intention to kill someone.
This being the age of social media, the entire episode leaves a trail of sorrow across the Web. A quick search for Dumouchel lands you on his professional profile on LinkedIn, the popular social networking website that connects employees and employers. When he was not DJing, he was helping the Laurentian bank step into the 21st century, apparently.
Closer to his passion, Dumouchel - who went by the DJ Euterke handle - also had his YouTube page. Since his tragic passing, friends and fans have been leaving their condolences and best wishes on his Facebook page.
Vernis on his end is no stranger online, either. Apart from the countless of stories on mainstream media sources since the incident, he conducted an interview talking about his background and his new restaurant. Catch it on Veoh, or the popular French social networking site Daily Motion:
Notice that the comments on Daily Motion have been disabled; the comments are enabled on Veoh, and understandably, unkind to the 26 year old.
This all begs the question: why. Why didn’t Vernis just stop? Was he drinking? Maybe. Who knows. And based on the events that took place, maybe we will never find out. Vernis is slated to appear in court in August… but instead of leaving you on that somber note… let’s sign off on something worthwhile, an impressive and memorable appearance by Dumouchel at the popular Mont-Royal haunt Patro Vys, enjoy.
