Montreal!

well, i think at the very least sun media looks at its consumers/advertisers base in quebec and says that it's not big/$ enough to warrant certain products, e.g. the mirror.

anyway, it is sad :(
and the state of media these days is something i am trying to think about in a problem-solving way and not an aargh depressing way

sorry, s1ocki :-(

i guess i'm glad i got out when i did... i knew one day i wouldn't have a job anymore, and i wanted it to be my own decision

i blogged about it if anyone cares http://markslutsky.com/post/26018910565/montreal-mirror-1985-2012

i totally care
last paragraph otm!

thx!

yeah that is the saddest part of the whole thing, really

ppl havent really gotten that yet i dont think, having been on the 'front lines' of listings & BOM & soundcheck etc for the early part of my career its quite clear to me thats where the impact will be

Yeah, not having the Mirror for recommendations for Fringe next year, or Pop, or even just weekly 'what i should be doing in town' will make filtering through the hundreds of things going on in the city much more difficult.

there wasn't much fringe coverage this year tho?

honestly facebook sucks

flopson did you ever start FLOP'S ON

haha yeah i did, you mean the dj night right? it's tonight, in fact

yes, that's what you called it in the end.

oh really!

ugh that huffpo article by will. nothing against him as a person but how obviously untrue is it in montreal that listings are "scattered across other sites which can be reached just as quickly (and cheaply)"? that sentence negates the argument in itself! having a couple of informed, local, comprehensive, descriptive (yes!) arts & culture listings that include lesser-known/indie/anglo/underground events is so important and just doesn't exist now.

it's a big deal to create that kind of listings - that's why people are/were paid to do it. i mean, i kind of slaved over hit list for Hour, going through so much info and writing it up with hardly any space to do so, but we felt it was really important, especially when our page count was down. i do my TM things to do article every week and my email is full of events of all kinds, but that article is hardly the forum for grad student avant art and noise shows in st-henri. and facebook, as useful as it can be for knowing about events, remains a curated news feed and one that has to be monitored constantly - and it still doesn't give much critical (vs PR) information about art/bands/etc. i like to believe that people still want to know what's going on from an informed and aware source. that doesn't have to be by one person but i think it should be in one (or two) places.

yes, i know that dude is well respected but writing something that ignorant, in the fuckin huffington post, is smh

yep

I thought only americans were able to be suckered into writing for huffington posts

we have a canadian version! and a french-canadian version! canadians are suckers too!

we're all the same on the inside

gullible

we just want to belieeeve

where is FLOP'S ON? I was not aware of it.

It's at b@r de coµrce11e in st-h3nri! "every 2nd Thursday"?

I am at the jazz fest... at a press thing. but/because drinking champagne (sparkling white)!

~romados~

work is flying me to QC later in July, and I get to drive down to Lac Megantic again

qc city?

yup. poutine there is disappointing compared to what i've had from local food carts

i cannot speak to that

go to la belle province, or the the rinky-dinkiest casse-croûte you can find

will do, if time allows.

wtf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_hot_dog

oh def get a couple steamies (or toastés, my preference). and say OUI to all-dressed.

or just head out to Orange Julep, because hot dogs from a GIGANTIC ORANGE on the side of the Decarie Expressway = living the life. Especially after going to the Dollar Cinema.

he's gonna be in q city, silly

belle province in verdun sells beer

felt like the rash of cynical internet assholes who came out of the woodwork to talk shit about the mirror on fb/comment sections after in the past week are a good argument for alternative print media

also: http://montrealmirror.org/ ???

uh

good luck with that.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

looks like smiley face has been pumping iron

Just learned that Montreal Steak Seasoning is an actual thing from your city! Thank you Montrealers!

yup. my butcher calls it the "jewish"

In Lac-Megantic right now, will be driving back up to Quebec City tomorrow afternoon after finishing up at customer's. Nice little town when its not covered in snow, and I was recommended the best poutine place around here. The french-only thing does get annoying, tho; it's like, cmon, you folks are within only half-an-hour of the U.S.

do. not. express. that. opinion.

Isn't most of Europe a quick car ride? Why all those languages. ;_;

hahaaaaaa
srsly
this is place with complex french-english colonial history and hundreds of years of french language/culture battles. a border is a border for historical and cultural reasons and language is a part of that. and so is defensiveness about it. outside of montreal in quebec unless i know the town/area to be anglo-skewed (rare but happens), i don't speak english.

tho quebec is fully survivable no matter what language you speak as long as your parka is sound