Everyone’s favourite Semi-Talented, Failed Actress, Prudence is like a rash that just doesn’t go away. Winner of the 2015 Cabaret Mado competition: Drag Moi, she soared to the heights of mediocrity, overlooked and underpaid. She can serve you Camp, Drama and an incredible Ham Sandwich if you ask nicely, and she won’t even charge you…much!

The summer I was 16, I read my first Tom Robbins book, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues. It was my Plateau summer, the one where I discovered St. Louis Square, Eva B’s, and good coffee. I sat at the Jazz Fest writing, people watching, listening, taking the vibes in through my skin. St. Louis Square was better for reading. I finished Wuthering Heights there, not because of any prescribed reading list, but because I held “the classics” in high regard.

It’s an undisputed fact that the Harlem Renaissance had a profound impact on the world. This movement gave us great music, literature and painters. It also gave us playwrights like Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. However, these were American playwrights.

Tomorrow marks one year of me being alcohol free. I haven't been able to say that since I was 13. Blah blah, complex trauma, neurodivergence, depression…the whys write themselves. I wasn't an all day drinker; I didn't fit the mold of someone who needed a fix to get through. Nonetheless, alcohol was part of every celebration, every sadness, and every well, we got nothing going on today, so…

Ever since I moved to Montreal, I’ve made a habit of collecting newspapers and magazines that catch my eye whenever I’m browsing bookstores in the city. My collection has grown to include a wide range of publications over the years—but the one that started my love affair with local journals, and continues to feed it three times a year, is the Montreal Review of Books (mRb).

Applying for grants is a grind. Ask any grant funded artist, or those who hope to be. They want a detailed description of what you're planning -- but in corpo-speak -- and your life story with a particularly bright spotlight shining on your difficulties, struggles, mental illnesses, and every subcategory of marginalization that you can squeeze into.

Claire Loewen, Lucas Glickman, and Nico Gaudreault created the studio with several goals in mind, the first one being accessibility. Montreal is full of small artists who are looking for a place to record as many studios continue to be shut down due to noise complaints. Studio Verville offers studio time on a budget in a professional setting.

I missed Halloween last week. I mean, I saw it, I knew it was there, and frankly, even the people who did Halloween had a soggy time of it, and the kids had coats on over their costumes, so did any of us really do Halloween this year? 

Indie Theatre fuels the Montreal Theatre scene, bringing with it experimental works, emerging talent and exciting new voices. Anything & Everything Productions is no exception. In its first year of public operation alone, the collective has proven that they really can do anything and everything!

Are you ok, Dear Reader? I ask because I got hit by the blues like a truck, and had to climb back to ground level. While I was doing that, I was hearing almost spontaneously from people that they were struggling: sad, isolating, and fighting to keep the good choices going.