Just For Laughs – the world’s greatest comedy festival The Montrealer July 1, 2011 7682 With over 2 million visitors each summer, Just For Laughs has become the world’s largest and most prestigious comedy festival. Talent agents, television producers and impresarios have discovered performers like...
Just For Laughs – it’s good for you! The Montrealer July 1, 2010 4903 "If music be the food of love, play on", are words by the Bard. One might also say the same for laughter - it brings people closer together, it makes ya' feel good. So...laugh on. If good music serves the ...
30 Years of jazz in Montreal The Montrealer June 1, 2009 3501 Friends Alain Simard and André Ménard started a musical collaboration 30 years ago that has become the world’s largest jazz festival The Montreal International Jazz Festival is celebrating its 30th Anniversary...
Mitsumi Takahashi of CFCF News The Montrealer November 1, 2008 23140 Sophisticated, urbane and with a compelling intellect, Mitsumi Takahashi remains atop the ratings in the highly competitive business of television news “I was born in Japan, but we moved to the United States w...
Centaur Theatre celebrates 40th Anniversary Season The Montrealer September 1, 2008 6395 Texaco, The Montreal Stock Exchange, The Montreal Star, McKim Advertising – all large and thriving businesses in 1969 - and all of them gone. They were unable to contend with the changing business climate of t...
Fabulous links golf, some good yarns, and yes…a little Guinness The Montrealer November 6, 2006 5079 Wow, what a Ryder Cup that was at the K Club in Ireland. But other than the rain, could you tell the event took place in Ireland? Of course not, it took place on a parkland course. It’s probably the greatest mi...
Tony Bennett brings his heart – and music – to Montreal The Montrealer June 5, 2006 4122 Good songs last. So do good singers, and one of them is coming to town. He’s the guy Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra advised “not to sing songs that cater to one age group, but songs that appeal to everybody,” ac...
