Category: arts, culture, music

• “you have to learn how to live as long as you live”

  

  Well, we don’t have to … learn how to live … as long as we live … but it’s probably a good idea. The advice comes from Seneca in a letter written around 65 CE (making its way to us today via an Oxford University Press translation). I may not agree with all ideas that…

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  Johanne Provençal

  29 Jul 2023

  all, arts, culture, music, everyday life, research and academics

  art of living, the human condition

• greater than the sum of its parts: Sans Soleil

  

  Where I thought I was going…? Somewhere to listen to music on vinyl. Where I ended up? Somewhere that has become, hands down, one my favourite places in Montréal. And as one of their taglines reads — “Club Souper – Listening – Soirées Dansantes” — the Japanese cuisine of the supper club, the listening (to…

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  Johanne Provençal

  21 Jul 2023

  all, arts, culture, music, food & drink, nightlife

  Japanese cuisine, Montreal, nightlife, Sans Soleil, vinyl

• Chinatown — good things are being said about you

  

  The first place that bilingual fortune cookies were made was in Montréal’s Chinatown in the 1960s … or so I learned while watching the film, Big Fight in Little Chinatown (directed by Karen Cho, 2022). The stories that are told in the film take place in Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver and New York City. Different cities,…

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  Johanne Provençal

  30 Jun 2023

  all, arts, culture, music, neighbourhoods

  Chinatown, Karen Cho, Montreal, NYC, Toronto, Vancouver