Sainte-Anne de Bellevue

Friday, 17 April 2009, 20:39 | Category : Montreal, Photography
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This is a crazy plan I was saving for when I’d be done school: ride all of Montreal’s suburban trains to their daunting, suburban extremities, get off, walk around, and catch the next train home. You know, veni, vidi, vici, type deal, but with McMasterville subbing for fabled Zile. (I’m fully aware that this doesn’t [...]

So long, Carbo.

Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 2:43 | Category : Montreal, News
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Uptown barbershops

Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 14:02 | Category : Montreal
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Just came home from a fresh foray of interviewing and photograph-taking down the streets at Krazy Kutz barbershop. The research for my feature article is progressing smoothly, if not particularly briskly. This time I got a chance to chat with Malcolm (shown above), who has been working alongside Ian Daley, the owner, for the past [...]

Fluent manoeuvres

Friday, 30 January 2009, 15:12 | Category : Montreal
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Earlier today, after I was done interviewing King Kutz Barbershop owner Peter Liburd (more about this wild venture later), I went to get a coffee to warm up a bit. Out in front of the Second Cup stood a tall, thin, Black man I’d seen around the neighbourhood before. Not exactly homeless looking, but obviously [...]