Gabrielle Drolet is a Montreal-based writer and cartoonist whose debut book, LOOK MA, NO HANDS, was published in 2025. Based between Villeray and Little Italy, she is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and The Globe and Mail, with additional written work featured in prestigious outlets such as The New York Times and The Walrus.

If you've ever seen a comedy show at Hurley's Irish Pub, it was probably produced by the World's Smallest Comedy team. With a trivia night, a booked show, and an open mic every week, plus a variety of one-off shows, they're keeping the laughs alive on Crescent Street, and they've been doing it for years.

I've been looking into coping methods lately. Whether it's the conflux of perimenopause and neurodivergence (it is), or the state of the whole ass world (yep, that too), or the bone chilling return to winters of yore (also that, for sure), I've been struggling.

The set was decked out with old fishing nets, knotted rigging, and hanging rope ladders—paired with the heating and the venue’s telltale wooden paneling, I felt like I’d walked right into a pirate ship in the tropics even before the actors took to stage.

Fraud Perry is a Montreal-based rapper whose experimental style weaves together elements of pop, hip-hop, dance, and punk into a unique indie-rap sound. Known for high-energy live performances and bombastic beats, she has spent the last three years gracing international stages like SXSW and opening for acclaimed acts such as Backxwash and Kari Faux.

The sign on the metro platform says “considering suicide? We’re here for you”, and I roll my eyes. Sure, it's an important message, a necessary lifeline, but as a high functioning person with mental illness, it feels like there's no support until you threaten to throw yourself onto the tracks.

Dr. Lemco's Creative Club events kept coming up in my feed. Invitations to paint, pictures, folks having fun, friends posting, proud of (or laughing at) their resulting pieces. And it wasn't just random people; it was the comedians I hold in high regard, people I can speak to frankly, people I trust when they say I think you’d like this.

Ad'Horrible is a Chinese non-binary drag artist based in Côte-Saint-Luc who performs as a "sleep paralysis demon." Specializing in "Drag Thing" and horror-inspired clowning, they use the stage to explore the intersection of cultural heritage and the absurdity of gender binaries.

I can't quite pinpoint when extremism became the norm. For every instance I consider as a starting point, I can hear the voices of one “team” screaming that it only happened because the “other team” did blah blah blah first, pushing the timeline back, and proving my point with their fierce defense of the extremism from “their side”.

Céleste Bonnier is a Montréal based tattoo artist and visual creator whose work lives where body, memory, and intuition meet. She approaches tattooing as more than image making, viewing it instead as a way of marking moments, emotions, and transitions directly onto the skin.