Tonight (March 31) is the annual Expozine Alternative Press Awards Gala at Le Divan Orange, 4234 St. Laurent. Copies of about 30 of the best publications from the 300 publishers who took part in Expozine 2009 will be on sale at the free event, which also features some readings by nominees, MC Alexis O’Hara and […]
Just a reminder that I DJ on the first Tuesday of each month at Bar Casa del Popolo, 4873 St-Laurent (near corner St-Joseph, short walk from Laurier metro and steps from the 55 stop), from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Tuesday is Rock n’ Roll night at Casa, so you can expect an eclectic mix […]
I’ll be selling my novel, A Fine Ending, and (hopefully) a special new little zine at Expozine this weekend in Montreal, Nov. 14-15, and I’ll also be at the Expozine opening party on Nov. 13 (see www.expozine.ca for details.)
Don’t be shy to come up and introduce yourself! See you there.
I put together a slideshow for last Saturday’s event at Cabaret Cléo, where I spoke about the history of the Main and that block. The slideshow walks you down both sides of the street from the corner of St. Laurent and Ste. Catherine during one afternoon in November, 1965. It uses photos taken from a […]
Well, once again there’s a plan to raze the historic (classified heritage at the federal level) block on the west side of St. Laurent and Ste. Catherine St.I wrote an article for the Montreal Mirror that just appeared available here:
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2009/052809/news2.html
If it weren’t for all the empty lots surrounding the block, and if they weren’t violating […]
(This is an expanded version of a blog post I wrote for Broken Pencil Magazine’s website this past summer.)
Despite what some readers thought, I think of my first novel, A Fine Ending, as a work of fiction. It certainly has a “non-fiction” aspect to it, in that a real time and place serves as the […]
First of all, I forgot to mention last month that I made the list of the top ten “Best Living Local Authors” in the annual Montreal Mirror’s Best of Montreal readers poll. The full list is available here and also includes my old friend Heather O’Neill, who I published for the first time in 1996 […]
Today, June 18, 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the unveiling of the 33RPM LP record. I’ve decided to mark the occasion with the following brief history of the LP’s invention and early years, adapted from a history of the record industry I wrote in 2003-2004.
A HISTORY OF THE LONG-PLAYING RECORD, copyright 2008 by Louis […]
Hello everybody! Just so you know, I began blogging here on the Broken Pencil website, where I expect to add posts every couple weeks through to the end of July.
I also DJed on CKUT earlier this week (Tuesday May 27, 2008), and you can click here to download the one-hour show. I was filling in […]
While doing some spring cleaning an envelope full of ticket stubs shuffled up to the surface; I scanned a number of them here:
The envelope had stayed in the back of a drawer where I’d thrown it right after moving into my apartment ten years ago, one of those things I never looked at but never […]