Le St. Cyr – From 1940s Burlesque Star to Restaurant Icon

Through the generations the face of the Main has certainly changed, degraded and revamped. Just in the last decade, the corner of St-Laurent and Ste-Catherine Streets has gotten a make-over, and in some respects is …

Montreal Fashion Week

Danik Yopp is a Montreal Fashion and Street Blogger who recently covered Montreal Fashion Week. He can usually be found out and about in bars with good lighting, and fashionable patrons. He also runs a really cool blog called Montreal Street Fashion. We begged him to give us a write up from Montreal Fashion Week and he graciously complied! For more fashiony content check out his site or follow him on twitter, @MTLSTfashion.

The Shame of Sex Addiction

From the outside, Brandon seems to have it all – a well paying job at a top New York firm, a swanky apartment and the ability to seduce nearly any woman into giving him what he wants. Yet, the relentless pursuit of physical and sexual gratification is his secret shame, transforming what was likely once a source of boundless pleasure into an insatiable, joyless and inescapable compulsion…

Operation #TellVicEverything – A Revolution, The Canadian Way

You know, a few months ago I wrote a parody article explaining Rebecca Black’s song Friday. It was rather well acclaimed. The lyrics to the song could very well end up being tweets from Canadians expressing their disgust at the new online privacy bill brought fourth by the Conservative government: “Hey Vic it’s 7am and I’m waking up in the morning.” “Hey Vic, now I’m going downstairs to have my bowl, I love cereal.” …

Why this Valentine’s Day I’m splitting on Hookers and Beer

Oh Christ, it’s Valentine’s Day. That day of the year where supposed couples embrace love and affection by dining, making out and vulgarly fucking on the floor like something out of a nature show – something with so much passion and intensity, it makes Passion of the Christ look like a PBS Kids Show. I’m talking sex so rough…

Who Needs a Boyfriend When You’ve Got An iPhone?

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, many single people dwell on that feeling of incompleteness we are brainwashed to think we must be feeling if we haven’t found our so-called “other half” yet. Not me this year, I’ve started spending a lot of my time with someone really special…

Flying While Transgender

Last week, the transgender blogosphere exploded in response to the July 29, 2011 changes to the Canadian Identity Screening Regulations. The focus of this attention was section 5.2 (1) of the regulation, which reads: “An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if [...] (c) the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents.” The regulation is notable for two reasons…

How Sega Got its Groove Back, and How Mario Got Some Tail

This week’s column comes from Andrew Braid, who is quite skilled in the art of writing. I was thrilled when he said yes to a guest review, and here it is in all its glory. And it’s no typical review either: this is a double dose of awesomeness. By this point in its life span, the gaming industry has become more and more like the Hollywood movie industry. Namely, ideas get rehashed and remade constantly, to the point where it’s almost the only output; justified as being the only way…

FTB Profile: Eric Santerre

Last Thursday I got a chance to meet Eric Santerre, a very sweet and humble man who is on the verge of exploding on the international art scene. Eric invited me to see his work, which is currently on display at the Apollo loft in the Old Port. While there, we chatted about his new book, life in the Montreal art scene and what the future holds…

On the inevitable death of handwriting

When I started writing this post about the dying state of handwriting, I originally intended to write it out in the black journal book that I keep for occasional note-taking. After a few days of procrastinating, I went back to my thoughts on the page. As I looked down at the chicken scratch I composed the day before I realized that it was completely illegible! How could this be? How could years of practicing handwriting still produce a doctor’s note full of cryptically indecipherable scribbles…

Super Mario 3D Land – How Mario Got Some Tail

This week’s column comes from Andrew Braid. Read the introduction to Mario and Sonic’s adventure
Super Mario 3D Land delivers the killer app that the once-lagging Nintendo 3DS handheld needed to turn things around and launch …

Condom Use Becomes Mandatory in LA-Based Adult Films

The Los Angeles city council recently passed a controversial ordinance requiring all porn performers to wear condoms during film shoots to reduce the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The 9-1 vote was a significant victory for the LA-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, an organization that has been tirelessly lobbying for years for mandatory condom use in pornography…

The Super Bowl (with commercials) on Pay-Per-View in Canada – Can it happen?

Last year around this time I made a rant post about how much I hate the CRTC. But more specifically about, how I cannot stand the fact that I cannot see Super Bowl commercials live …

Why I Love My Playbook (but wrote this on a PC)

My first computer was a Timex Sinclair ZX-81. Geeks, if you’re not already smiling, I’ll give you a moment to get Googling. Everyone else, let’s just say that this was before the Vic20 or the Commodore64, and if you don’t know what those words mean, let’s just say it was way before Facebook. I tell you this because it entertains me, but more to the point, because on occasion I like to look back and think about how I came up with the real OT (original technology)…

I’ve Never… danced outdoors in below freezing temperatures at Igloofest

As part of my continuing “I’ve never…” series, I went dancing outdoors in below freezing temperatures at Igloofest!

Winter in Montreal is unforgiving, bipolar and frette en esti, which is Québecois speak for really freaking cold! I say the only way to get through it is by taking advantage of it as much as you can, in a “can’t beat ‘em, then join ‘em!” sort of way. Shake off the hibernation and get outdoors. Though Montreal is a bustling metropolis, it also has spaces for playing outdoors…

Sonic Generations – How Sega Got its Groove Back

This week’s column comes from Andrew Braid. Read the introduction to Sonic and Mario’s adventures.

Sonic Generations takes a similar approach to plot as Mario for the most part, avoiding the deluge of overblown plot and …