Recently, tragedy befell a friend of mine. It was the kind of occurrence that leaves you gasping and touching your heart, thinking there but for the grace of God go I, or perhaps of all the dice in this Universe, that might've been my roll, whichever you prefer. But this isn't about her dice or her sadness: this is about what happened next.

Up a short flight of stairs, above Boulevard Saint Laurent, is one of the city’s top venues. From the outside, the only signage is plain black, but inside hides a true cabaret theatre.

This past weekend marked the last On The Boulevard for a minute. For those of you who don't know (I mean, who reads this and doesn't know?), OTB was the multidisciplinary showcase we’ve been running every other Sunday.

With the summer now in full swing, it may feel as though perhaps the winds of change are finally sweeping through the arts in Montreal.

If you think you’re enlightened, the saying goes, go spend time with your family. Obviously it will take a different length of time for each person to get caught in their egos. If you do it consciously enough though, you can clock the moment you slip into the battles you left behind but were apparently just on pause all these years.

I don't want to evoke memories of those bleak times a few years ago when we couldn't gather and have fun, but that's where this story begins.

Y’all were so supportive and patient while I was apartment hunting and packing (and stressing so hard), that you deserve an update.

In some ways, we live in a world of over-emotionality. We want to tell our coworkers and bosses about how we feel, and what they said that offended us…and that's probably for the best.

I met Vance Michel at a wild time in my life. Fresh off a disastrous two-year run of comedy club management, I was teetering on the edge of permanent banishment from Montreal’s stand-up scene.

Nestled on Montreal’s bustling Saint Laurent Boulevard lies a hidden gem known as The Wiggle Room—a venue steeped in cabaret charm, burlesque feathers and wayward rhinestones.