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MAY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 8 • CULTMTL.COM
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Wed 8 Alicia Elliott launches film & arts 24
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strive for
efficiency?*
Credit: Cedric Price, Olympia: "the village brain". Cedric Price fonds, CCA. © CCA
40 years of *This is one of the questions we continue to raise
at the Canadian Centre for Architecture since our
founding in 1979. We persist with this questioning
questioning. as the myriad of issues still to be addressed call for
new ways to increase public awareness of the role
of architecture in society.
cca.qc.ca
to-do list
For the daily To-Do List, visit cultmtl.com
To May 30
The annual Accès Asie festival showcases dance, film, music,
visual art, literature, comedy, poetry, new media and culinary
art from contemporary and traditional Asian cultures.
To May 5
The 46th annual Concordia Film Festival offers a look at
cinematic talent on the rise, and with Film Production and
Film Animation screenings priced at $5 (and it’s only $20 for
a festival pass, and talks and seminars are free), it’s a no-
brainer for affordable entertainment away from your couch.
To May 11
Over 50 sketch comedy troupes — local, national and
international — will be performing at this year’s Montreal
Sketchfest. Programming includes Toronto’s the Sketchersons
and their Sunday Night Live show with host Tranna Wintour
and musical guest Awwful, NYC’s Pegasus (ie. Amanda Xeller) Snotty Nose Rez Kids
and locals Hot Raw Fire, among many more. See our article
about the festival at cultmtl.com.
≥ Various locations, $15/show, $20 day pass, $65 festival pass
May 18–19 Vancouver to Rotterdam and Gwangju, Lum explores identity
through language and letterforms. Even strip mall signs.
≥ 1515 Ste-Catherine W. (EV 1.605), 6 p.m., free
Porches, stoops, lawns, alleys, balconies and rooftops all
May 8–11 around NDG become stages for acoustic bands in the annual
Porchfest event.
As POP Montreal stretches the definition of pop to its outer
limits (not to mention the Jazz Fest’s approach to jazz,
May 24–26
haha), Distorsion Psych Fest presents a broad spectrum
of psychedelic sounds, from shoegaze to post-punk to May 19–Sept. 29 The Comics Art Festival (aka Festival BD de Montréal)
experimental dance music to garage rock. This year’s roster features 170 comics creators from all over, with 60 special
includes exceptional local bands like Suuns, Crabe, Elephant Sunday afternoons and early evenings in Montreal have events and seven exhibitions in l’Espace Lafontaine.
never been the same since Piknic Électronik launched their ≥ Rachel & Papineau, 1–7 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Saturday, 10
Stone, Petra Glynt, Bleu Nuit and les Breastfeeders, with a
handful of acts from the U.S., Mexico and the ROC. weekly summer dance parties back in the early aughts. a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday, free
≥ Various locations, four-day passes $55 or $200 (special package) As usual the event launches for the season with Sunday/
Monday events on the long weekend. The line-up had not yet
been revealed when we went to press (but can be seen on the
Piknic site now). May 24–June 2
May 15 ≥ Plaine des Jeux (île Ste-Hélène, ie. Parc Jean-Drapeau), season
passes $119/$87 students, individual event price not available at Interdisciplinary, experimental, emerging performing
Five bands from the Japanese capital play Petit Campus in the press time arts and artists are the focus of OFFTA, an event that was
latest edition of the Next Music From Tokyo showcase. This originally founded to offer counter-programming to Festival
line-up is pretty eclectic, repping everything from dub reggae TransAmériques but is now friendly enough with the other
and rap/EDM to indie rock and straight-up pop.
≥ 57 Prince-Arthur E., 8 p.m., $15/$20 May 22–June 4 festival to have a joint hot dog party.
Festival TransAmériques, which bills itself as “the biggest
May 17–19
performing arts festival in North America,” promises two
weeks of contemporary theatre and dance shows, along with
May 27–June 16
a series of dance parties at Quartier général.
Nothing says summer like the opening of the Montreal
Punk rock music festival Pouzza occupies the Quartier des Fringe Festival, where hundreds of local and international
Spectacles for one evening and two full days and nights of performers descend on the city to share the best in
sonic mayhem, featuring acts including Against Me!, Andrew
W.K., Strung Out, the Planet Smashers, Subb and many, many May 23 innovative, insightful, emotional and often hilarious
independent theatre, music, dance and more.
more. Ticketed shows are happening in four concert venues,
with free shows scheduled for the outdoor site. American author and activist Dan Savage has a film festival
≥ Various locations, day tickets $60, three-day pass $125 of his own: Hump!, a touring curated selection of short dirty
movies by amateur filmmakers and actors putting a twist on
conventional porn with kink, creativity and diversity. June 4–23
≥ Cinéma l’Amour (4015 St-Laurent), screenings at 8 p.m. and 10:30
Over in Sainte Thérèse, the second edition of the Santa Teresa p.m., $22.37 all in The Suoni per il Popolo festival specializes in avant garde
music fest is going down in the satellite town northwest of and experimental music styles, and this year’s line-up is as
Montreal over three days. Acts include MGMT, Hubert Lenoir, rich and diverse as ever. As our columnist Johnson Cummins
Kallitechnis, Kroy, Poirier, Radiant Baby, RYAN Playground and always says, discovering acts you’ve never seen or heard
more. Note that shuttle service between Montreal and Sainte May 24 before is what Suoni is all about, but we can recommend a
Thérèse is available ($9 per ride), and public transit is doable few known entities: Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Lido Pimienta,
(it’s a 20-minute bus ride from Montmorency metro). Artist Ken Lum visits Montreal for A-B-Z-LUM and offers a Xarah Dion (who’ll be launching a record), Spencer Krug, Nick
≥ Various locations in Sainte Thérèse, various prices (per show) free talk, «Not My Type: Thoughts on Typographic Taste.» From Schofield, Saul Williams, Fly Pan Am and Police des Moeurs.
6 MAY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 8 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM
A N S AVAG E’S
D
IVAL
FILM FEST
May 23rd
CINEMA L’AMOUR, MONTREAL
TI C KETS AT H UM PFIL M FEST.COM
START
And the city has spoken. Best Politician category, which is open to interpretation by the
way) to the existence of our ethnic cuisine section of the poll —
From February to April, Cult MTL readers and other citizens see Resto wrongs on p. 38.
exhibiting some civic pride voted for their favourite Montreal
things in the annual Best of MTL poll. Though our version of this readers poll is in its seventh edition,
it bears mentioning that the survey follows in the decades-
Between the scourge of strip-mall living and the permanent old tradition established by the city’s defunct but fondly
construction-site state of our city streets — not to mention the remembered alt-weekly newspaper the Mirror. Respect.
online-living and general bubble-dwelling that keeps us apart
— it’s imperative to salute the artists, promoters, organizers, Along with the expanded Top 10 lists in every category (coming
reporters, restaurateurs and retailers who keep Montreal’s to cultmtl.com in the coming days), our website will feature a
heart beating. number of Best of MTL articles through the month of May and
beyond.
The poll is open and democratic, with no editorial influence or
interference. We are always glad to see so many people make We thank everyone who voted and promoted the poĺl.
an event of voting via social media campaigns, and while we Participation continues to grow every year, making the 2019
can’t resist sharing the occasional third-party get-out-the-vote results more representative of the city than ever.
tweet, we otherwise remain neutral during the polling period.
(Anglos, if you’re wondering why you don’t recognize some
Ballot-stuffing is automatically weeded out by our survey names in these lists, it’s because the other 70 per cent of the
software, but we must admit that we appreciate joke votes — population is now voting in a bilingual poll. Francos, désolé, les
it’s nice to get a few laughs in during the painstaking tabulation résultats sont unilingue.)
process. This year there were votes for columnist and social
media personality Murphy Cooper and comedian Julian To all the winners in the following 150+ categories:
Bernatchez in way too many categories, along with griping congratulations.
about everything from the length of the poll to the fact that we’d
dare suggest that there are politicians who aren’t evil (ie. the We’re proud to bring you the Best of MTL.
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People
&
Places
Justin Trudeau’s star may
have fallen a bit with the
SNC-Lavalin affair —
which topped the Most
Heinous Scandal category
and propelled him into the
Slimiest Politician Top 5
for the first time — but
not enough to prevent the
majority of you from voting
him Hottest Montrealer
(again). Our mayor bested
Trudeau in the Best
Politician category, while
François Legault won
Slimiest Politician by
a landslide — the only
election he’ll ever win with
Montrealers. Nightlife
columnist and social
media personality Murphy
Cooper campaigned
hard, winning the Best-
dressed category here and
making #2 Best Instagram
account in the Media
section. The influence of
Cooper’s friends and fans
had a secondary effect
on the poll, however,
bringing Verdun (#4
Best Neighbourhood)
and Verdun businesses
into the spotlight — his
Cindy Lopez
#VERDUNLUV hashtag has
attracted many residents
of the Southwest hood to Verdun! Best Neighbourhood #4
his cause.
Best Sports 4 Hubert Lenoir Slimiest Politician 4 Verdun
Personality 5 Murphy Cooper 5 Rosemont-Petite-Patrie
1 François Legault
1 Carey Price
2 Justin Trudeau
2 PK Subban
Best Political Cause Best Place to
3 Denis Coderre
3 Max Domi
1 Le Pacte/climate change
Have Public Sex
Hottest Montrealer 4 Valérie Plante
4 Georges St-Pierre 1 The Mountain
2 Bill 21 protest 5 Luc Ferrandez
1 Justin Trudeau
5 Brendan Gallagher 2 The Wiggle Room
3 Dans la Rue/
2 Maripier Morin
homelessness Most Heinous 3 Parc Lafontaine
3 Carey Price Tackiest Personality Scandal 4 Lachine Canal
4 Valérie Plante 4 LGBTQ+ rights
1 Céline Dion 1 SNC-Lavalin 5 Old Port
5 Tranna Wintour 5 Indigenous rights/Justice
2 Mado Lamotte 2 Bill 21
for missing & murdered...
3 Justin Trudeau 3 Potholes/The roads Best Instagram Spot
Best-dressed 4 Mose Persico 4 Snow removal 1 Beaver Lake/Mountain
Montrealer Best Politician
5 Éric Lapointe 5 CAQ election 2 Old Port/Grande Roue
1 Murphy Cooper 1 Valérie Plante
3 Pastel Rita
2 Tranna Wintour Best Weirdo 2 Justin Trudeau Best Neighbourhood 4 Lov Restaurant
3 Justin Trudeau 1 Beaver Sheppard 3 Manon Massé 1 Plateau 5 Lachine Canal
4 Lily Monroe 2 Natasha Nebula 4 Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois 2 Mile End
5 Maripier Morin 3 Julien Bernatchez 5 Craig Sauvé 3 NDG
10 MAY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 8 • WWW.CULTMTL.COMBest Radio Station 2 Nick Schofield
Media 1 CKUT 90.3FM
2 CHOM 97.7FM
CKUT 90.3FM
3 Jason Rockman
CJLO radio show Pancake 3 CJLO 1690AM CHOM 97.7FM
Party and its host Dave
Tone have ascended their 4 CBC Radio One/Two 4 Mike Finnerty
respective categories
straight to the top this year, 88.5FM/93.5FM CBC Radio One
proving that Montrealers
are still tuning in to hear 5 Virgin Radio 95.9FM 88.5FM
live performances by their
favourite locals (and that 5 Paul Arcand
the popularity of indie
pop persists). In the Best Best Radio Show CHMP 98.5FM
TV Personality category,
Québécois comic Jay 1 Pancake Party
du Temple (#2) and CTV
reporter/podcaster Julian CJLO 1690AM Best TV Station
McKenzie (#3) enter the
Top 5 for the first time, 2 Underground Sounds 1 CTV
while Mike Ward’s Sous
Écoute podcast rises to #1 CKUT 90.3FM 2 CBC
from last year’s #3 ranking.
Tranna Wintour and Fuck No 3 Daybreak 3 ICI/Radio-Canada
Montreal retain their holds
on Best Twitter and Best CBC Radio One 88.5FM 4 Global
Instagram, and we must
again thank our readers 4 The Go-Go Radio Magic 5 Télé-Québec
for making us the #1 Best
Magazine, Newspaper and Show CJLO 1690AM
Website (just wait till you
see what our website looks
5 La soirée est encore jeune
Best Newscaster
like next week!). With fewer
and fewer publications 1 Mutsumi Takahashi
in print, it’s encouraging
ICI Radio-Canada 95.1FM
to see so many votes for 2 Céline Galipeau
so many different papers
Best Radio Host
Shaun Michaud
and glossies across both 3 Pierre Bruneau
categories.
1 Dave Tone 4 Patrice Roy
CJLO 1690AM 5 Paul Karwatsky “Thank you. I’m just glad I’m not on the Tackiest Personality list like Mose Persico. If I am on that list, please ignore
that.”—Julian Mackenzie, Best TV Personality #3
MAY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 8 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 11LIBERTÉ CONQUÉRANTE 25.04.2019 — 15.09.2019 GROWING FREEDOM Fondation Phi Les instructions de Yoko Ono pour l’art contemporain L’art de John et de Yoko Free 451 and 465 Old Montreal fondation-phi.org admission Saint-Jean Street (corner Notre-Dame) info@fondation-phi.org
DRIFT INTO
IMMATERIAL
WORLDS
exhibitions • VR cinema • installations
phi-centre.com
@phicentreBest TV Personality Best Website 5 Tattoo Box Traditional
1 Mutsumi Takahashi 1 Cult MTL @tattoo_box_traditional
2 Jay du Temple cultmtl.com
Best Twitter
3 Julian McKenzie 2 Pornhub
1 @trannawintour
4 Marc Labrèche pornhub.com
2 @cultmtl
5 Maripier Morin 3 MTL Blog
3 @fucknomtl
mtlblog.com
Best Magazine 4 @harriweinerb
4 Tattoo Box Montréal
1 Cult MTL 5 @murphycooper
tattooboxmontreal.com
2 Urbania 5 Eater Montreal
Best Podcast
3 Nouveau Projet montreal.eater.com
1 Mike Ward Sous Écoute
4 Dinette
2 3 Bières
5 Vice Best Instagram
3 Chosen Family
1 Fuck No, Montreal
Best Newspaper 4 Des si et des rais
@fucknomtl
1 Cult MTL 5 9to5/Go Plug Yourself
2 Murphy Cooper
2 The Gazette @murphycooper
3 Le Devoir 3 C&L Cycle
4 La Presse (RIP) @clcycle
5 Le Journal de Montréal 4 Ponto
@ponto_mtl
“Feels so good to be câlissement connu in Montreal. Thanks for the support and don’t forget to follow me on IG for more
fire outfits.”—Murphy Cooper, Best-dressed Montrealer #1, Best Instagram #2
14 MAY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 8 • WWW.CULTMTL.COMBest Sleazy Dive Best Promoter 3 Kamasutra Best Burlesque
Nightlife 1 Barfly 1 Blue Skies Turn Black 4 Club Wanda Performer
2 Brasserie Beaubien 2 Evenko 5 Solid Gold 1 Lavender May
3 Bar de Courcelle 3 Suoni per il Popolo 2 Audrey Ivory
When it comes to
drinking, Montrealers 4 Grumpy’s 4 POP Montreal Best LGBT Bar/Club 3 Tristan Ginger
are pretty particular.
The variety of votes 5 Bifteck 5 Greenland Productions 1 Notre Dame des Quilles 4 Celesta O’Lee
in the Best Bartender
category was 2 Cabaret Mado 5 Loulou la Duchesse
staggering, resulting
in a Top 5 that is Best Wine Bar Best Strip Club 3 Sky
completely different
from last year’s — 1 Loïc 1 Chez Parée 4 Bar Renard
aside from everyone’s
Bishop Street mainstay 2 Pullman 2 Cleopatra 5 Club Unity
Gern. F at Grumpy’s.
Mile Ex watering hole 3 Vin Papillon
Notre Dame des Quilles
continues to reign the 4 Buvette Chez
Bar and LGBT Bar/
Club categories, while Simone
queer events make up
the Top 4 Best Club 5 Rouge Gorge
Nights (and their DJs
make up the Top 4 Best
Club DJ category in the
Music section). Tranna Best Club
Wintour’s popularity
continues unabated 1 Datcha
as she tops the Best
Comedian category, the 2 Nesta
Stand Back event she
co-hosts with Rachel 3 Stereo
Gendron wins Best
Comedy Night and her 4 Sky
Trannavision film series
comes in at #4 in that 5 Bar le Ritz PDB
category. Marijuana’s
dominance in Best Drug
will surprise no one,
but I have a couple of Best Club Night
questions about Best
Drink: Can we not get 1 Glitter Bomb
more specific than
“beer” and “wine”? And 2 LIP
how is wine only #4?
3 MPU
Multimedia
Show
4 CRZN
5 Moonshine
Best Bartender Best Under-
1 Gern F. (Grumpy’s)
ground Venue
2 Vito Ciocca
1 La Plante
(Le Bremner)
2 Bog
3 Rashta Kruger
(Comedy Nest/ 3 Cyberia
Blue Dog) 4 Fattal
ON NOW
4 Asilex Rodriguez 5 Tarot
(Kabinet)
5 Caroline Kaufman Best Live
(Bifteck) Music Venue
1 MTelus
Best Bar 2 Casa del Popolo
1 Notre Dame des 3 La Sala Rossa
Quilles 4 Théâtre Corona
2 Grumpy’s Virgin Mobile
3 Turbo Haüs 5 Bar le Ritz PDB
4 Bar de Courcelle
pacmusee.qc.ca/en
5 Wiggle Room
MAY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 8 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 15SCARLETT JAMES BEAR’S DEN OMAR APOLLO BALTHAZAR WEYES BLOOD
+ VERA SOLA + MK.GEE + JACKIE COHEN
MAY 17 - CORONA THEATRE MAY 24 - PETIT CAMPUS
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THE JAPANESE HOUSE THE CULT THANK YOU SCIENTIST
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JULY 15 - MTELUS
/GREENLANDPROD /EVENKOCindy Lopez
“Five in nightclub years is like 34 for a human — you have to work hard to maintain. Pat and Adam have done a fantastic job not only of building a team, but of being there every day, sweating profusely and occasionally actually bleeding to make everything work and feel great at the club. It’s a privilege
for me to work with a truly woke group of people in my home town and it’s a pleasure to be recognized, yet again, by Cult MTL readers. Much love, Montreal!”—Datcha (Best Club #1) co-founder/booker/resident DJ Thomas Von Party
3 Arts and Laughs Best Drink Best Cocktail Bar
Best Drag Queen
4 Voix de Ville 1 Beer 1 Atwater Cocktail Club
or King
5 Films in Focus 2 Gin & tonic 2 Palco
1 Uma Gahd
3 Old-fashioned 3 Le Lab
2 Mado
Best Karaoke Bar 4 Negroni 4 Coldroom
3 Rainbow
1 Pang Pang 5 Wine 5 Wiggle Room
4 Rita Baga
5 Charli Deville 2 Notre Dame des Quilles
3 3 Minots
Best Comedy Club 4 Club Date
1 Comedy Nest 5 La Remise
2 Le Bordel
3 Montreal Improv Best Film
4 Wiggle Room Screening Series
5 Terminal 1 Cinema Politica
2 DeuXX
Best Comedian 3 Fantasia
1 Tranna Wintour 4 Trannavision
2 Mike Ward 5 Cinéclub Film Society
3 Sugar Sammy
4 James Brown Best Drug
5 Joey Elias 1 Marijuana
2 MDMA/ecstasy/molly
Best Comedy Night 3 Cocaine
1 Stand Back 4 Mushrooms
2 Squad Laughs 5 LSD “Usually, Latinx queers are torn between going to events where they can listen to Latin music but that are very heterosexual and hostile to being visibly queer, or going to events
that are catered to a white queer demographic and that do not play our music. With CRZN I wanted to create a space to fill that void and respond to that need. We are glad that our
party has been embraced by this city.”—Rafaella (Pituca Putica), CRZN organizer
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26Music
It’s the year of Hubert Lenoir
(who is technically from
Quebec City but we’ll allow
it), whose rabid fanbase
elevated the hard-working
glam pop star to the top of
the Best Solo Act and Best
Freakiest Act categories,
and to #2 Most Pretentious
Act — probably the only
list where you’ll ever see
Céline Dion and Godspeed
You! Black Emperor side
by side. The buzz around
Kaytranada persists, with
Morgan Harris Photography
the producer ranking #1
Best Electronic Act, #2
Best Solo Act as well as #5
Best Hip Hop Act. The latter
category is topped this year
by Loud of Loud Lary Ajust,
who also continues to have
“So happy Montreal knows we’re not from Toronto. It’s been a really exciting time but nothing feels better than the hometown love, and y’know what? We love you back.”—Caveboy, Best Band #4
a moment — he made #4 in
Best Solo Act, too. New to the
poll this year is Spacemak3r Best Band Best Solo Act Freakiest Act Best Club DJ
Spacemaker (#1 Heaviest
Act!), a band that has been 1 Arcade Fire 1 Hubert Lenoir 1 Hubert Lenoir 1 Awwful
described as “circus metal”
— two of Montreal’s cultural 2 Half Moon Run 2 Charlotte Cardin 2 Natasha Nebula 2 Frankie Teardrop
touchstones, together at last.
3 Urban Science 3 Kaytranada 3 Big Sissy 3 Diskommander
4 Caveboy 4 Loud 4 Screaming Demons 4 Jeffany
5 The Damn Truth 5 Coeur de Pirate 5 Bad Uncle 5 Debbie Friday
Most Best Electronic
Pretentious Act Act
1 Arcade Fire 1 Kaytranada
2 Hubert Lenoir 2 Marie Davidson
3 Lakes of Canada 3 Milk and Bone
4 Céline Dion 4 Nick Schofield
5 Godspeed You! 5 Chromeo
Black Emperor
Best Country/
Heaviest Act Folk Act
1 Spacemak3r 1 Li’l Andy
Spacemaker 2 Sin and Swoon
2 The Great Sabatini 3 El Coyote
3 Yoo Doo Right 4 Bud Rice
4 Voivod 5 Barr Brothers
5 Mountain Dust
Best Jazz Act
Best Hip Hop 1 Shy Shy Schullie
Act 2 Al Mclean
1 Loud 3 Dave Gossage
2 Dead Obies Septet
3 Nomadic Massive 4 Kalmunity
4 Nate Husser 5 Urban Science
5 Kaytranada Brass Band
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lead vocalist, Mutsumi Takahashi.”—Urban Science, Best Band #3 —Charlotte Cardin, Best Singer-songwriter #1, Best Solo Act #2
Best Singer-song- 4 Patrick Watson 2 Jorie Best Label
writer 5 Coeur de Pirate 3 Spoonman 1 Constellation
1 Charlotte Cardin 4 Violinist in dog/wolf mask 2 Arbutus
2 Paul Cargnello Best Busker 3 Dare to Care
5 Old Time Honey
3 Safia Nolin 1 Graham Downey,
4 Stomp
aka ginger bagpipe dude
5 Indica
MAY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 8 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 23Best Actor/Actress
Film & 1 Jay Baruchel
2 Tristan D Lalla
Arts 3 Evelyne Brochu
The Evelyne Brochu army 4 Brent Skagford
mounted a less intense social
media campaign, yet the 5 Théodore Pellerin
Orphan Black actress (who
co-starred in two TV series
this year as well as the film
Cash Nexus) still made it to
Best Filmmaker
#3 Best Actor/Actress. Also
in that category are the ever-
1 Xavier Dolan
popular Jay Baruchel, anglo
theatre/film mainstays Tristan
2 Denis Villeneuve
D Lalla and Brent Skagford
and Théodore Pellerin, who
3 Liz Singh
recently appeared in Philippe
4 James Watts
Lesage’s film Genèse as well as
Netflix series The OA. Despite
5 Adam Reider
the ill fate of his English-
language directorial debut,
Xavier Dolan remains #1 Best
Filmmaker (he’s got a new
film at Cannes this month)
Best Local Film Thierry Mugler: Couturissime exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Best Museum #1
while Liz Singh comes in at
#3 on the strength of Lower
(of 2018-2019) Best Theatre Best Play Best Dance
Plateau (Best Local Film #1).
The category with the most
1 Lower Plateau Company 1 Blackout Company
new names is Best Cartoonist/ 2 Death Trip
Comic Artist, featuring D.
1 Centaur Theatre 2 J’aime Hydro 1 Variations Mile End
Mathieu Cassendo (the artist 3 Chien de garde 2 Black Theatre Workshop 3 La clone est triste 2 Les grands ballets
behind Québec Solidaire’s
campaign posters), horror/sci- 4 Snares 3 Mainline Theatre 4 Within the Glass Canadiens
fi/fantasy specialist Jeik Dion
and Blinky and Sal creator 5 Mon ami Walid 4 Geordie Theatre 5 Children of God 3 Helen Simard
Jonathan Burrello.
5 Tableau d’Hôte Theatre 4 Cult of Yes
5 Marie Chouinard
Avec carte étudiante valide / with valid student ID
24 MAY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 8 • WWW.CULTMTL.COMBest Cartoonist/ Best Graffiti Artist/
Comic Artist Crew
1 Aislin 1 A’Shop
2 Rick Trembles 2 MissMe
3 D. Mathieu Cassendo 3 Nixon Ink Chemistry
4 Jeik Dion 4 Omen
5 Jonathan Burrello 5 En Masse
Best Video Game Best Festival
Company 1 Jazz Fest
1 Ubisoft 2 Osheaga
2 WB 3 Just for Laughs
3 Tribute Games 4 POP Montreal
4 EA 5 Fringe Festival
“Thank you to all the readers of Cult MTL and all of my supporters for making this possible”—Randy Nixon of Nixon Ink Chemistry, Best Graffiti Artist/Crew #3
5 Borealys
Best Museum Architecture Best Living Author
1 Montreal Museum 1 Heather O’Neill
Best Fashion
of Fine Arts Best Gallery 2 Michelle Franklin
Designer
1 DHC/Fondation Phi 1 Jennifer Glasgow
2 Musée d’art 3 Paige Cooper
2 Station 16 2 Denis Gagnon
contemporain de Montréal 4 Michel Tremblay
3 Arsenal 3 Yasmine Wasfy
3 McCord Museum 5 Patrick Sénécal
4 Never Apart 4 Eve Gravel
4 Pointe-à-callière
5 Articule 5 Frank & Oak
5 Canadian Centre for
OFFTA
Festival Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard
d’arts Claudel Doucet +
vivants Cooper Lee Smith
Festival
13e Simon Portigal
édition Dayna McLeod
24.05 — Mardon + Mitsuhashi
02.06.19
d’arts Mai thi Bach Ngoc Nguyen
Alegría Gobeil +
Alex Pouliot +
vivants
Ariane Gagné +
Camille Blais +
Corinne Asselin +
13e
Frédérique Chassé +
Guillaume B.B. +
Juan Antonio Bonillo +
édition
Michaëlle Morasse +
Sascha Cowan
Sam Bourgault +
24.05 —
Magali Casaubon +
Emma Forgues +
Isabella Leone +
02.06.19
Madeline Joyce Smart +
Leyla Sutherland +
Eryn Tempest
Anita Rochon | The Chop
Mathilde Maillard
Erin Hill
Audrée Lewka et les Lewski
projets hybris
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Maude Arès
Olivier Arteau | Théâtre Kata
Jean Bui +
Sydney McManus
Marilou Craft +
Chloé Savoie-Bernard
Daina Ashbee
Antoine Charbonneau-Demers
LA SERRE – arts vivants remercie le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec de son appui financier.
MAY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 8 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 25Best Clothing 3 Queen of the World 3 Will Duny Freyja
Goods & Store (New) 4 Freyja Helmet 2 Guillaume Cheny
4 Guillaume Cheny Helmet
Services 1 Simons 5 Danny’s Coiffure Unisex
2 The Gap Helmet 3 Dave Devico
The Best Clothing Store
category is as representative 3 Frank & Oak Best Hair Stylist 5 Marco Di Biasio Queen of the World
as ever of the diversity of
our audience, repping, shall 4 Jeans Jeans 1 Mike Chacko Helmet 4 Marco Di Biasio
we say, remarkably basic,
mainstream tastes (the Jeans Freyja Helmet
Gap) to more refined local
designer shops (Lustre 5 Lustre Boutique 2 David Devico Best Barber 5 Dan Marin
Boutique). We were truly
Queen of the World 1 Mike Chacko Blue Dog
impressed by the amount
of votes for different
bookstores and record Best Vintage
shops across those four
categories — Amazon is fine Clothing Store
(see #5 Best Electronics
Store, haha), but brick and 1 Eva B
mortar is better. Speaking of
2 Fripe-Prix Re-
Best Electronics Store, we
hope Moog Audio appreciate naissance
their inclusion there (#4)
as well as in Best Musical 3 Citizen Vintage
Instrument Store (#2) — a
little confusion around 4 Village des
“electronic music,” I think.
And we also had a few Valeurs
laughs over the Best Drug
Paraphernalia Store category, 5 Empire
which had loads of votes
for pharmacy chains (we Exchange
removed those) and the SQDC
(which we left in) — we wish
the SQDC was savvy enough
to sell paraphernalia, or offer Best Hair
a shopping experience that
isn’t so eerily sterile. Salon
1 Salon Helmet
2 Two Horses
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26 MAY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 8 • WWW.CULTMTL.COMBest Beauty Salon Studio Artease
1 Queen of the World 5 Charline Bataille
2 Salon Helmet Minuit Dix
3 Candy Bar Nail Salon
4 Au Premier Coiffure Best Bookstore
et Spa (New)
5 Danny’s Coiffure Unisex 1 Drawn & Quarterly
2 Chapters/Indigo/Coles
Best Tattoo 3 Paragraphe
Parlour 4 Argo
1 DFA 5 Livre & Let Die
2 Two Horses
3 Tattoo Box Best Bookstore
4 Artease (Used)
5 Adrenaline 1 The Word
2 Encore
Cindy Lopez
Best Tattoo 3 Cheap Thrills
An employee at Branche d’Olivier (Best Health Food Store #3) on Wellington.
Artist 4 Livre & Let Die
1 Janice Beattie DFA 5 S.W. Welch
2 Aimée 3 Crossover Comics Best CD/Vinyl Store 3 Cheap Thrills
Morning Glory Best Comics Store 4 Millenium (New) 4 Beatnick
3 Angus Byers DFA 1 Drawn & Quarterly 5 Comic Hunter 1 Aux 33 Tours 5 Le Vacarme
4 Rian 2 1 000 000 Comix 2 Phonopolis
MAY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 8 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 27Cindy Lopez
Employees from Phonopolis, Best New Best CD/Vinyl Store #2 and Best Used CD/Vinyl Store #5 and Drawn & Quarterly, Best Bookstore #1, Best Comics Store #1
Best CD/Vinyl Store Best App Best Sports Store Centre de Santé Taiyo Best Health Food
(Used) 1 Instagram 1 Sports Experts 5 Allison Ryan Store
1 Cheap Thrills 2 Transit 2 MEC 1 Rachelle Béry
2 Aux 33 Tours 3 Tinder 3 Play It Again Sports Best Massage Spot 2 Les Marchés Tau
3 Beatnick 4 Uber 4 Empire 1 Studio Bliss 3 Branche d’olivier
4 Death of Vinyl 5 Evangelista Sport 2 Bota Bota 4 PA Nature
5 P$ service mobile
3 Ovarium 5 Bioterre
5 Phonopolis
Best Internet Service Best Skate/ 4 Espace Nomad
Best Musical Snowboard Shop Best Home
Provider 5 Tan Jai
Décor Store
Instrument Store 1 Bell 1 Empire
1 Zone
1 Steve’s Music Store 2 Vidéotron 2 Skull Central Best Spa
2 Ikea
2 Moog Audio 3 TekSavvy 3 Rollin 1 Bota Bota
3 Homesense
3 Archambault 4 Ebox/Electronic Box 4 Underground 2 Strøm Spa Nordique
4 Rona
4 Jimi’s Music Store 5 Virgin 3 Scandinave Spa Vieux-
5 V de V
5 Twigg Best Fitness Club/ Montréal
Best Electronics Gym 4 Spa Finlandais
Best Kitsch/
Best Movie Theatre Store 1 YMCA 5 Spa Diva
Antique Store
1 Cinéma du Parc 1 Addison 2 Econo Fitness
1 Kitsch à l’os
2 Cineplex Forum 2 Best Buy 3 Machina Best Yoga Instructor
2 Kitsch’n Swell
3 Cineplex Banque Scotia 3 Apple/Apple Store 4 B52 Fitness 1 Tanya Dawe
3 Marché aux Puces
4 Cinéma Moderne 4 Moog Audio 5 World Gym 2 Elizabeth Emberly
St-Michel
5 Cinéma Beaubien 5 Amazon 3 Kimiko Fujimoto
4 Marché Underground
Best Massage 4 Erina Pompetti
5 Village des Valeurs
Best Drug Best Bicycle Shop Therapist 5 Alyson Wish
Paraphernalia Store 1 C&L Cycles 1 Eric Digras Best Florist
1 Prohibition ( 2 Bikurius Temple Mile End Best Yoga Studio 1 Dragon Flowers
fka High Times) 3 J.R. Bicycletterie 2 Jade Selter 1 Modo Yoga 2 Westmount Flowers
2 Utopia 4 Recycle Cycle The Open Centre (formerly Moksha) 3 Venus
3 SQDC 5 ABC 3 Tanja Gabriel 2 Naada 4 Pourquoi Pas
4 Psychonaut Tan Jai Massage 3 Yoga Vieux-Montreal 5 Zen
4 Lisa Mah 4 Ashtanga Yoga Montreal
28 MAY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 8 • WWW.CULTMTL.COMBest New
Food Trend
Food & 1 Vegan/vegetarian
Drink
2 Poké Bowls
3 Pizza
4 None
For a biting critique of 5 Eating local
some of the winners
in the section that
follows, please see our
food editor Clayton
Best Pub Grub
Sandhu’s Resto 1 Ye Olde Orchard
Wrongs article at
the end of the issue. 2 Burgundy Lion
Here are some more 3 Bishop & Bagg
neutral observations:
“Kowabunga! Fugazzi Pizza in Pointe Ste-Charles is a big exclamation mark.”—JP Miron, Best Chef #2, from Fugazzi, Best New Restaurant #3
The Southwest got 4 McKibbins
a welcome pizza
5 Else’s
injection over the past
year with the arrival of
Rita and Elena, Best
New Restaurant #1 Best Cheap Eats
and #2, respectively, 1 Patati Patata
with Fuggazi (#3) —
in somewhat nearby 2 Boustan
Pointe Ste-Charles
— completing a pizza
3 Nilufar
triad in that category. 4 Restaurant AA
Fugazzi/Bocata chef
JP Miron, a contestant 5 Ma Poule Mouillé
on the Food Network’s
Top Chef Canada last
year, was voted #2 Best Pricey Eats
Best Chef, joining Joe
A place for all. Beef’s Dave McMillan
1 Joe Beef
to unseat Beaver 2 Le Bremner
Sheppard and Antonio
Park from the Top 5. 3 Tuck Shop
And Ma Poule Mouillé
4 Damas
got lots of support this
year after a fire nearly 5 Au Pied de Cochon
destroyed the beloved
Plateau Portuguese
chicken spot, ranking Best Late Night
Discover our studio with the #1 in Best Portuguese,
#3 in Best Chicken and 1 La Banquise
introductory month #5 in Best Cheap Eats.
2 Restaurant AA
3 Nouveau Palais
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(Winneburger) 1 Lloydie’s 4 L’Atelier Joël 1 El Rey Del Taco
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1 Nil Bleu 3 La Caverne Russe Best Greek
2 East Africa Best Chinese 4 Georgia 1 Milos Best Middle
3 La Khaima 1 Restaurant Beijing 5 Baba Yaga Café 2 Marathon Souvlaki Eastern
3 Arahova Souvlaki 1 Damas
4 Restaurant Marven’s 2 Sumac
5 Rotisserie Panama 3 Boustan
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Best Indian 5 Le Petit Alep
1 Bombay Mahal
2 Pushap Best Spanish
3 Punjab Palace 1 Tapeo
4 Atma 2 La Sala Rosa
5 Chand Palace 3 Club Espagnol
4 Iberica
Best Italian 5 Méson
1 Impasto
2 Elena Best Thai
3 La Bottega 1 Épicerie Pumpui
4 Nora Gray 2 Restaurant
5 Pizzeria Gema Thailande
3 Chu Chai
Best Izakaya 4 Thai Express
1 Kazu 5 Pamika
2 Kinka Izakaya
3 Imadake Best Pad Thai
4 Ichigo Ichie 1 Épicerie Pumpui
5 Otto Bistro 2 Thai Express
3 Bangkok
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Best Korean
5 Tampopo
1 Ganadara
2 Omma
3 Mon Ami
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Vietnamese
5 Kantapia 1 Pho Tay Ho
2 Pho Bang New York
Best Latin 3 Pho Viet
American 4 Pho Cali
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2 Romados 2 Magpie 2 Kinton 2 Park
3 Piri Piri 3 Bouquet 3 Misoya Best Shish Taouk 3 Saint Sushi
4 Gema 4 Ramen Ya 1 Boustan 4 Jun I
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5 Elena 5 Ichifuku 2 Amir 5 Tri Express
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Best Pho Best Poutine Best Ribs 4 Sumac Best Taco
1 La Banquise 1 Baton Rouge 5 Adonis 1 Frida
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2 Poutineville 2 Rubs 2 La Capital Tacos
2 Pho Lien
3 Pho Bang New York 3 Patati Patata 3 Coco Rico Best Smoked Meat 3 Tacos Tijuana
4 Chez Claudette 4 Bar-B-Barn 1 Schwartz’s 4 El Rey del Taco
4 Pho Bac
5 AA 5 Blackstrap 2 The Main 5 Fortune
5 Pho Viet
3 Smoked Meat Pete
Best Sandwich 4 Snowdon Deli Best Vegetarian
1 Santropol 5 Lester’s 1 Aux Vivres
2 Aux Vivres 2 LOV
3 Clarke Café Best Steak 3 Lola Rosa
4 Dagwoods 1 Moishes 4 Sushi Momo
5 Bocadillo 2 The Keg 5 Chu Chai
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2 Dispatch 5 Leonidas 1 Fruiterie Mile End
3 Myriade 2 PA
4 Nocturne Best Ice Cream 3 Jean-Talon Market
5 Velish 1 Kem Coba 4 Provigo
2 Dalla Rose 5 Adonis
Best Coffee 3 Ripples
(Beverage) 4 La diperie Best Fishmonger
1 Dispatch 5 Bilboquet 1 La Mer
2 Myriade 2 Falero
3 Olimpico 3 Odessa
Best Fromagerie
4 Saint Henri 4 Shamrock
1 Hamel
5 Starbucks 5 Waldman’s
Dirty Dogs, Best Hot Dog #2 2 Atwater
3 Bleu et Persillé
3 Harricana Best Barista Best Teahouse Best Butcher
4 Copette et Cie.
1 Helen Papapanos 1 Cardinal
4 Benelux 5 Foumagerie 1 Lawrence
Le Kichen 2 Camelia Sinensis
5 4 Origines 2 Vito
2 Pieiro 3 Cha Noir
4 Griffon d’Or
Best Organic 3 McCormak’s
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Best Bakery Produce Store 4 Pascal le Boucher
3 Simon-Pierre Caron 5 David’s Tea
1 Guillaume 1 Tau
In Gamba 5 Viandal
2 Automne
4 Sarvenaz Best Chocolates/ 2 PA Nature
3 Chez Fred
Dispatch Sweets 3 Chez Robin
4 Hof Kelsten
5 Tanisha Arthur 1 Juliette et Chocolat 4 Rachel Berri
5 Sweet Lee’s
Odessa 2 Chocolats Chloé 5 Provigo
MAY 2019 • Vol. 7 No. 8 • WWW.CULTMTL.COM 37food & drink
Resto
Wrongs
By Clayton Sandhu
Once again the people of Montreal have
cast their judgement on the many fine
Sushi restaurants and foodstuffs that make
this city great, and to nobody’s surprise,
the reviews were mixed, nobody can
spell and people said some dumb shit.
Hookups =
As is tradition, I thought I would weigh
in and correct some of this year’s resto
wrongs.
1 Chuck Hughes, Danny Smiles and J.P. Miron are not
Montreal’s greatest chefs. And guys, if you’re reading
this, no shade on you as chefs, but you know as well as I
do that the greatest chefs working in Quebec today are
probably Fred Morin, Dave McMillan, Martin Picard and
Normand Laprise. These are the chefs who made Montreal
the internationally recognized food town that it is. Garde
Manger and le Bremner are wonderful restaurants, but
being a great chef is about more than what goes on the
plate, it’s also about the imprint you leave on the world.
Without a Fred, there’s no Chuck.
2 Veganism and vegetarianism are stupid food trends. I
agree that we should all be eating less meat, but more
importantly we should empower local farms and work on
regenerative organic farming that nourishes the land. By
eating at vegan restaurants that are shipping vegetables
and soy from Mexico, California and Asia year-round,
you’re simply masquerading as an ally to the environment.
Eating a more vegetable-forward diet makes sense —
plant-based food is far more diverse than meat and in
many ways more delicious. That said, come mid-January
I’d rather be eating a steak from an ethically raised cow
than a grain bowl full of imported avocados and bean
sprouts. Caring about your food and knowing where it
comes from is the best trend.
3 Best Vietnamese, Caribbean, Middle Eastern etc. are not
racist categories. It’s a small amount, but voters in every
nationally/regionally defined category are getting pissed
off. If this is you, it’s time to get off that high-horse. These
are legitimate category headings for regionally specific
cuisines. And what, you don’t find this survey long enough
already? Would you really have us make a “Best French
Part of St. Martin” category? It’s too specific.
That all said, the people also spoke with knowledge and
wisdom and proved time and time again that we are a
people of refined taste. St-Viateur bagel correctly reigns
Visit www.squirt.org supreme, l’Express is resoundingly our best French
restaurant, Joe Beef our finest pricey eat. And although
I may disagree with a lot of you, I’m sure the feeling is
to hook up today mutual, and at the end of the day aren’t we all just looking
for something good to eat? So let’s agree to disagree, and
we can talk more about it over dinner.
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